| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.221 | Whistling to th' air; which, but for vacancy, | Whisling to'th'ayre: which but for vacancie, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.iii.14.2 | Music i'th' air. | Musicke i'th'Ayre. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.x.3 | I would they'd fight i'th' fire or i'th' air; | I would they'ld fight i'th'Fire, or i'th'Ayre, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.161.2 | Hail, noble Martius! | Hayle, Noble Martius. |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.168.2 | My gracious silence, hail! | My gracious silence, hayle: |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.25.2 | Hail, great king! | Hayle great King, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.455 | white hairs do witness it, but that he is, saving your reverence, | white hayres doe witnesse it: but that hee is (sauing your reuerence) |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.134 | I'll cavil on the ninth part of a hair. | Ile cauill on the ninth part of a hayre. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.iii.56 | boy, servant by servant – the tithe of a hair was never | Boy, Seruant by Seruant: the tight of a hayre was neuer |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.iii.59 | many a hair, and I'll be sworn my pocket was picked. | many a hayre; and Ile be sworne my Pocket was pick'd: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.248 | Prince himself is such another – the weight of a hair | Prince himselfe is such another: the weight of an hayre |
| Henry V | H5 III.chorus.23 | With one appearing hair that will not follow | With one appearing Hayre, that will not follow |
| Henry V | H5 III.vii.13 | He bounds from the earth, as if his entrails were hairs – | he bounds from the Earth, as if his entrayles were hayres: |
| Henry V | H5 III.vii.59 | own hair. | owne hayre. |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.43 | Like prisoners wildly overgrown with hair, | Like Prisoners wildly ouer-growne with hayre, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.ii.37 | Let's leave this town; for they are hare-brained slaves, | Let's leaue this Towne, / For they are hayre-brayn'd Slaues, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.ii.34 | All hail, my lords! Which of this princely train | All hayle, my Lords: which of this Princely trayne |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.367 | Full often, like a shag-haired crafty kern, | Full often, like a shag-hayr'd craftie Kerne, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.171 | His hair upreared, his nostrils stretched with struggling; | His hayre vprear'd, his nostrils stretcht with strugling: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.viii.61 | Cold biting winter mars our hoped-for hay. | Cold biting Winter marres our hop'd-for Hay. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.i.54 | This hand, fast wound about thy coal-black hair, | This Hand, fast wound about thy coale-black hayre, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.391 | The sun that withers hay doth nourish grass: | The Sunne that withersheye goth nourish grasse, |
| King John | KJ III.iv.72 | As they have given these hairs their liberty!’ | As they haue giuen these hayres their libertie: |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.121 | horse buttered his hay. | Horse buttered his Hay. |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.204 | To wage against the enmity o'th' air, | To wage against the enmity oth'ayre, |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.97 | like a dog and told me I had the white hairs in my beard. | like a Dogge, and told mee I had the white hayres in my Beard, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.i.148 | hay. | hey. |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iii.18 | I will drain him dry as hay; | Ile dreyne him drie as Hay: |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iii.61 | Hail! | Hayle. |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iii.62 | Hail! | Hayle. |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iii.63 | Hail! | Hayle. |
| Macbeth | Mac III.i.59 | They hailed him father to a line of kings. | They hayl'd him Father to a Line of Kings. |
| Macbeth | Mac V.iii.17 | Are counsellors to fear. What soldiers, whey-face? | Are Counsailers to feare. What Soldiers Whay-face? : |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.328 | But in the estimation of a hair, | But in the estimation of a hayre, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.33 | of hay. Good hay, sweet hay, hath no fellow. | of hay: good hay, sweete hay hath no fellow. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.246 | fetch you a hair off the great Cham's beard; do you any | you a hayre off the great Chams beard: doe you any |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.149 | sobs, beats her heart, tears her hair, prays, curses – ‘ O | sobs, beates her heart, teares her hayre, praies, curses, O |
| Othello | Oth V.i.104 | (to Bianca) What, look you pale? O, bear him out o'th' air. | What? looke you pale? Oh beare him o'th'Ayre. |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.III.15.5 | lords kneel to him. Then enter Thaisa with child, with | Lords kneele to him; then enter Thaysa with child, with |
| Pericles | Per IV.iv.28 | Never to wash his face, nor cut his hairs. | Neuer to wash his face, nor cut his hayres: |
| Pericles | Per V.i.13.2 | Hail, reverend sir! The gods preserve you! | Hayle reuerent Syr, the Gods preserue you. |
| Pericles | Per V.iii.49.1 | Hail, madam, and my queen! | Hayle Madame, and my Queene. |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.169 | Did they not sometime cry ‘ All hail!’ to me? | Did they not sometime cry, All hayle to me? |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.53 | A shadow like an angel, with bright hair | A Shadow like an Angell, with bright hayre |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.26 | punto reverso! the hay! | Punto reuerso, the Hay. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.iii.69 | Then mightst thou speak; then mightst thou tear thy hair, | Then mightest thou speake, / Then mightest thou teare thy hayre, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.30 | No, not so much perdition as an hair | No not so much perdition as an hayre |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.487 | I do remit these young men's heinous faults. | I doe remit these young mens haynous faults. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.177 | And feed on curds and whey, and suck the goat, | And feed on curds and whay, and sucke the Goate, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.i.133 | Set fire on barns and haystacks in the night, | Set fire on Barnes and Haystackes in the night, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.i.141 | To a hair. | To a To a hayre. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.188 | When thou hast hung thy advanced sword i'th' air, | When thou hast hung thy aduanced sword i'th'ayre, |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.i.43 | Now Jove, in his next commodity of hair, send | Now Ioue in his next commodity of hayre, send |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.287 | For me, a hair shall never fall of these men. | For me, a hayre shall never fall of these men. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.104 | Hard-haired and curled, thick-twined like ivy tods, | Hard hayr'd, and curld, thicke twind like Ivy tops, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.ii.57 | Of all his hay and provender; that ostler | Of all his hay and provender: That Hostler |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iv.51 | Not a hair-worth of white, which some will say | Not a hayre worth of white, which some will say |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.366.2 | Hail, most royal sir! | Hayle most Royall Sir. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iii.12 | While we lie tumbling in the hay. | While we lye tumbling in the hay. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.717 | A lie: you are rough and hairy. Let me have | A Lye; you are rough, and hayrie: Let me haue |