| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.26 | To lay his gay comparisons apart, | To lay his gay Comparisons a-part, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.i.94 | Do their gay vestments his affections bait? | Doe their gay vestments his affections baite? |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.49 | To be so pestered with a popinjay, | (To be so pestered with a Popingay) |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.76 | And might by no suit gain our audience. | And might, by no Suit, gayne our Audience: |
| Henry V | H5 III.iv.12 | pense que je suis le bon écolier; j'ai gagné deux mots | pense que ie suis le bon escholier. I'ay gaynie diux mots |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.177 | was gained; and in him that escapes, it were not sin to | was gayned: and in him that escapes, it were not sinne to |
| Henry V | H5 IV.iii.110 | Our gayness and our gilt are all besmirched | Our Gaynesse and our Gilt are all besmyrcht |
| Henry V | H5 IV.iii.118 | The gay new coats o'er the French soldiers' heads, | The gay new Coats o're the French Souldiers heads, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.i.52 | Make us partakers of a little gain | Make vs partakers of a little gayne, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.149 | And deck my body in gay ornaments, | And decke my Body in gay Ornaments, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.28 | Against the kind embracement of thy friends? | Agaynst the kind imbracement of thy friends, |
| Macbeth | Mac III.ii.20 | Whom we, to gain our peace, have sent to peace, | Whom we, to gayne our peace, haue sent to peace, |
| Macbeth | Mac III.iii.7 | To gain the timely inn; and near approaches | To gayne the timely Inne, and neere approches |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.34 | Knacks, trifles, nosegays, sweetmeats – messengers | Knackes, trifles, Nose-gaies, sweet meats (messengers |
| Othello | Oth II.i.147 | Never lacked gold, and yet went never gay; | Neuer lackt Gold, and yet went neuer gay, |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.149 | My gay apparel for an almsman's gown, | My gay Apparrell, for an Almes-mans Gowne, |
| Richard II | R2 V.ii.66 | For gay apparel 'gainst the triumph day. | For gay apparrell, against the Triumph. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.iii.26 | a nosegay; then let him mark me – then – | a Nosegay, then let him marke me,---then. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iii.40 | me four-and-twenty nosegays for the shearers, | me four and twenty Nose-gayes for the shearers |