| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iv.42 | Whose want and whose delay is strewed with sweets, | Whose want, and whose delay, is strew'd with sweets |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.18 | Now, God delay our rebellion! As we are | Now God delay our rebellion as we are |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.i.3 | That what they do delay they not deny. | that what they do delay, they not deny. |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.190 | and hose in my disposition? One inch of delay more is a | and hose in my disposition? One inch of delay more, is a |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.204 | delay me not the knowledge of his chin. | delay me not the knowledge of his chin. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.i.75 | Forced me to seek delays for them and me. | Forst me to seeke delayes for them and me, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iii.40 | the hoy Delay. Here are the angels that you sent for to | the Hoy Delay: Here are the angels that you sent for to |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.vi.60 | And that you not delay the present, but, | And that you not delay the present (but |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.102 | The more delayed, delighted. Be content, | The more delay'd, delighted. Be content, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.72 | The pangs of despised love, the law's delay, | The pangs of dispriz'd Loue, the Lawes delay, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.iii.57 | Delay it not. I'll have him hence tonight. | Delay it not, Ile haue him hence to night. |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.119 | And hath abatements and delays as many | |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.ii.180 | Advantage feeds him fat while men delay. | Aduantage feedes him fat, while men delay. |
| Henry V | H5 II.iv.142 | Come here himself to question our delay, | Come here himselfe to question our delay; |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.ii.146 | Leave off delays, and let us raise the siege. | Leaue off delayes, and let vs rayse the Siege. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.ii.33 | Defer no time; delays have dangerous ends. | Deferre no time, delayes haue dangerous ends, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.iii.10 | That thus delays my promised supply | That thus delayes my promised supply |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.iii.46 | 'Long all of Somerset and his delay. | Long all of Somerset, and his delay. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.168 | This weighty business will not brook delay; | This weighty businesse will not brooke delay, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.18 | Right gracious lord, I cannot brook delay; | Right gracious Lord, I cannot brooke delay: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.246 | Therefore delay not, give thy hand to Warwick; | Therefore delay not, giue thy hand to Warwicke, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.viii.40 | Nor posted off their suits with slow delays; | Nor posted off their suites with slow delayes, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.viii.60 | The sun shines hot; and, if we use delay, | The Sunne shines hot, and if we vse delay, |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.ii.59 | Without delay; and the pretence for this | Without delay; and the pretence for this |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.67 | And that without delay their arguments | And that (without delay) their Arguments |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.9 | Delay not, Caesar. Read it instantly. | Delay not Casar, read it instantly. |
| King Edward III | E3 I.i.169 | In great affairs 'tis naught to use delay. | In great affaires tis nought to vse delay. |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.6 | To be deluded by their false delays. | To be deluded by their false delaies, |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.93 | without any further delay than this very evening. | without any further delay, then this very Euening. |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.142 | What safe and nicely I might well delay | What safe, and nicely I might well delay, |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.160 | In the delaying death. | In the delaying death. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.i.89 | his suit, and lead him on with a fine-baited delay till he | his Suit, and lead him on with a fine baited delay, till hee |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.394 | But notwithstanding, haste, make no delay; | But notwithstanding haste, make no delay: |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.200 | Tide life, tide death, I come without delay. | Tide life, tide death, I come without delay. |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.377 | Dull not device by coldness and delay. | Dull not Deuice, by coldnesse, and delay. |
| Othello | Oth III.iv.110 | Entirely honour. I would not be delayed. | Intirely honour, I would not be delayd. |
| Pericles | Per II.v.22 | And will no longer have it be delayed. | and will no longer / Haue it be delayed: |
| Richard II | R2 V.i.101 | We make woe wanton with this fond delay. | We make Woe wanton with this fond delay: |
| Richard III | R3 IV.i.51 | Be not ta'en tardy by unwise delay. | Be not ta'ne tardie by vnwise delay. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iii.52 | Is leaden servitor to dull delay; | Is leaden seruitor to dull delay. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iii.53 | Delay leads impotent and snail-paced beggary. | Delay leds impotent and Snaile-pac'd Beggery: |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.17 | Let's lack no discipline, make no delay, | Let's lacke no Discipline, make no delay, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.44.2 | I mean, sir, in delay | I meane sir I delay, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.v.33 | The excuse that thou dost make in this delay | The excuse that thou dost make in this delay, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.200 | Delay this marriage for a month, a week. | Delay this marriage, for a month, a weeke, |
| The Tempest | Tem III.iii.74 | The powers, delaying, not forgetting, have | The Powres, delaying (not forgetting) haue |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iii.43 | He doth me wrong to feed me with delays. | He doth me wrong to feed me with delayes, |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.99 | Who of my people hold him in delay? | Who of my people hold him in delay: |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iii.48 | In delay there lies no plenty – | In delay there lies no plentie, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.166 | Let us be widows to our woes; delay | Let us be Widdowes to our woes, delay |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.10 | To outdure danger. To delay it longer | To out dure danger: To delay it longer |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.460 | I am but sorry, not afeard; delayed, | I am but sorry, not affear'd: delaid, |