| 2H6 I.iii.88 | [Suffolk to Queen, of the Duchess of Gloucester] myself have limed a bush for her, / And placed a choir of such enticing birds / That she will light to listen to the lays |
| Ham IV.vii.182 | [Gertrude to Claudius and Laertes, of Ophelia] her melodious lay |
| Per Chorus.V.4 | [Gower alone, of Marina] she dances / As goddess-like to her admired lays |
| Phoen.1 | [] Let the bird of loudest lay ... / Herald sad and trumpet be |
| PP.14.18 | [Pilgrim, of Philomela] I sit and mark, / And wish her lays were tuned like the lark |
| Sonn.100.7 | [of his Muse] Sing to the ear that doth thy lays esteem |
| Sonn.102.6 | [] Our love was new, and then but in the spring, / When I was wont to greet it with my lays |
| Sonn.98.5 | [] the lays of birds |
| TNK V.i.89 | [Palamon praying to Venus, of an old man] make him, to the scorn of his hoarse throat, / Abuse young lays of love |