| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.v.66.1 | Smarting in lingering pickle! | Smarting in lingring pickle. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.v.14 | They'll grind the one the other. Where's Antony? | they'le grinde the other. Where's Anthony? |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.ii.103 | This mould of Martius, they to dust should grind it | This Mould of Martius, they to dust should grinde it, |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vi.34 | Strange ling'ring poisons: I do know her spirit; | Strange ling'ring poysons: I do know her spirit, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iii.38 | The way that they did, and to grin like lions | The way that they did, and to grin like Lyons |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.51 | Should by the minute feed on life and ling'ring | Should by the minute feede on life, and ling'ring, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.189 | mock your own grinning? Quite chop-fallen? Now get | mock your own Ieering? Quite chopfalne? Now get |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.24 | No, not to stay the grinding of the axe, | No not to stay the grinding of the Axe, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.iii.59 | such grinning honour as Sir Walter hath. Give me life, | such grinning honour as Sir Walter hath: Giue mee life, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.156 | To feed contention in a lingering act; | To feede Contention in a ling'ring Act: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.74 | One would have lingering wars with little cost; | One would haue lingring Warres, with little cost; |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.iv.19 | And, in advantage lingering, looks for rescue, | And in aduantage lingring lookes for rescue, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.18 | Small curs are not regarded when they grin, | Small Curres are not regarded when they grynne, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.247 | And torture him with grievous lingering death. | And torture him with grieuous lingring death. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.iii.24 | See how the pangs of death do make him grin! | See how the pangs of death do make him grin. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.i.77 | Against the senseless winds shalt grin in vain, | Against the senselesse windes shall grin in vaine, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.56 | What valour were it, when a cur doth grin, | What valour were it, when a Curre doth grinne, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.23 | A ling'ring English siege of peevish love. | A lingring English seege of peeuish loue, |
| King John | KJ III.iv.34 | Come, grin on me, and I will think thou smilest | Come,grin on me, and I will thinke thou smil'st, |
| King Lear | KL IV.i.39 | Angering itself and others. (Aloud) Bless thee, master! | Ang'ring it selfe, and others. Blesse thee Master. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.i.14 | too peregrinate, as I may call it. | too peregrinat, as I may call it. |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.iv.167 | To lingering sufferance. Answer me tomorrow, | To lingring sufferance: Answer me to morrow, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.268 | An age of poverty, from which lingering penance | An age of pouerty. From which lingring penance |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.163 | Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp, | Scoffing his State, and grinning at his Pompe, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.v.9 | porter let in Susan Grindstone and Nell. | Porter let in Susan Grindstone, and Nell, |
| The Tempest | Tem III.iii.78 | Lingering perdition – worse than any death | Lingring perdition (worse then any death |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.259 | Go, charge my goblins that they grind their joints | Goe, charge my Goblins that they grinde their ioynts |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.i.110 | A speedier course than ling'ring languishment | A speedier course this lingring languishment |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.185 | Hark, villains, I will grind your bones to dust, | Harke Villaines, I will grin'd your bones to dust, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.197 | Let me go grind their bones to powder small, | Let me goe grin'd their Bones to powder small, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.i.16 | grinding. | grinding. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.i.18 | Ay, the grinding; but you must tarry the | I the grinding; but you must tarry the |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.ii.101 | You would be fingering them, to anger me. | You would be fingring them, to anger me. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.100 | Showing the sun his teeth, grinning at the moon, | Showing the Sun his Teeth; grinning at the Moone |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.320 | But with a lingering dram that should not work | But with a lingring Dram, that should not worke |