| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.59 | By laying defects of judgement to me, but | by laying defects of iudgement to me: but |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.v.11 | My music playing far off, I will betray | My Musicke playing farre off. I will betray |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.94 | 'Tis better playing with a lion's whelp | 'Tis better playing with a Lions whelpe, |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.45 | one that loves a cup of hot wine with not a drop of allaying | one that loues a cup of hot Wine, with not a drop of alaying |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.iii.89 | Vagabond exile, flaying, pent to linger | Vagabond exile, Fleaing, pent to linger |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.vii.57 | Which their own conscience sealed them, laying by | Which their owne Conscience seal'd them: laying by |
| Hamlet | Ham II.i.39 | You laying these slight sullies on my son, | You laying these slight sulleyes on my Sonne, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.20 | o'erdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, | ouer-done, is frõ the purpose of Playing, whose end |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.98 | If 'a steal aught the whilst this play is playing, | If he steale ought the whil'st this Play is Playing, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.164 | hold the laying in, 'a will last you some eight year or | hold the laying in) he will last you some eight yeare, or |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.202 | If all the year were playing holidays, | If all the yeare were playing holidaies, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.iii.87.2 | meets him, playing upon his truncheon like a fife | meets him, playing on his Trunchion like a Fife. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.290 | by this light flesh and corrupt blood (laying his hand | by this light Flesh, and corrupt Blood, |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.172 | Playing the mouse in absence of the cat, | Playing the Mouse in absence of the Cat, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.i.25 | I lost mine eye in laying the prize aboard, | I lost mine eye in laying the prize aboord, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.iii.28.4 | The drum playing and trumpet sounding, enter | The Drumme playing, and Trumpet sounding. Enter |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.84 | Have broke their backs with laying manors on 'em | Haue broke their backes with laying Mannors on 'em |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.v.4 | Sit thee down, Clitus. Slaying is the word; | Sit thee downe, Clitus: slaying is the word, |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.131 | (laying his hand on his heart) | |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.198 | Ay, and laying autumn's dust. I will die bravely, | I wil die brauely, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.102 | Playing in the wanton air. | Playing in the wanton ayre: |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iii.43 | By each at once her choppy finger laying | By each at once her choppie finger laying |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.160 | In the delaying death. | In the delaying death. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.264 | shin th' other day with playing at sword and dagger with | shin th'other day, with playing at Sword and Dagger with |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.i.10 | 'Tis a playing day, I see. How now, Sir Hugh, no school | 'tis a playing day I see: how now Sir Hugh, no Schoole |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.67 | Playing on pipes of corn, and versing love | Playing on pipes of Corne, and versing loue |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.ii.21 | playing Pyramus, I'll be hanged. He would have deserved | playing Piramus, Ile be hang'd. He would haue deserued |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.v.24 | By playing it to me with so sour a face. | By playing it to me, with so sower a face. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.128 | The more fool you for laying on my duty. | The more foole you for laying on my dutie. |
| The Tempest | Tem I.i.375.1 | Enter Ferdinand; and Ariel, invisible, playing and | Enter Ferdinand & Ariel, inuisible playing & |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.393 | Allaying both their fury and my passion | Allaying both their fury, and my passion |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.188.1 | Enter Ariel, playing solemn music | Enter Ariell playing solemne Musicke. |
| The Tempest | Tem III.iii.74 | The powers, delaying, not forgetting, have | The Powres, delaying (not forgetting) haue |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.172.01 | playing at chess | playing at Chesse. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.1.1 | Hautboys playing loud music. A great banquet served | Hoboyes Playing lowd Musicke. A great Banquet seru'd |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.129.3 | playing | playing. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.207 | laying on, take't off who will, as they say; there be | laying on, tak't off, who ill as they say, there be |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.i.1.1 | Enter at different entrances Viola, and Feste playing | Enter Viola and Clowne. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.ii.135 | Nay, I was taken up for laying them down. | Nay, I was taken vp, for laying them downe. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.iii.31 | Playing one business in his hand, another | Playing ore busines in his hand, another |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.174 | What wheels? Racks? Fires? What flaying? Boiling | What Wheeles? Racks? Fires? What flaying? boyling? |