| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.v.66.1 | Smarting in lingering pickle! | Smarting in lingring pickle. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.i.3 | Say that I lingered with you at your shop | Say that I lingerd with you at your shop |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.iii.89 | Vagabond exile, flaying, pent to linger | Vagabond exile, Fleaing, pent to linger |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.156 | To feed contention in a lingering act; | To feede Contention in a ling'ring Act: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.239 | the purse; borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, | the purse. Borrowing onely lingers, and lingers it out, |
| Henry V | H5 II.chorus.31 | Linger your patience on, and we'll digest | Linger your patience on, and wee'l digest |
| 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.ii.247 | And torture him with grievous lingering death. | And torture him with grieuous lingring death. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.iv.54 | Then linger not, my lord. Away! Take horse! | Then linger not my Lord, away, take horse. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.263 | Come, son, away; we may not linger thus. | Come Sonne away, we may not linger thus. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.ii.32 | Why do we linger thus? I cannot rest | Why doe we linger thus? I cannot rest, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.i.26 | Why linger we? Let us lay hands upon him. | Why linger we? Let vs lay hands vpon him. |
| 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 II.ix.74 | By the time I linger here. | By the time I linger here, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.268 | An age of poverty, from which lingering penance | An age of pouerty. From which lingring penance |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.ii.52 | We have lingered about a match between Anne | We haue linger'd about a match betweene An |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.4 | This old moon wanes! She lingers my desires, | This old Moon wanes; She lingers my desires |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.224 | him the fair Desdemona, unless his abode be lingered | him the faire Desdemona, vnlesse his abode be lingred |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.89 | I would not have thee linger in thy pain. | I would not haue thee linger in thy paine? |
| Richard II | R2 II.ii.72 | Which false hope lingers in extremity. | Which false hopes linger in extremity. |
| The Tempest | Tem III.iii.78 | Lingering perdition – worse than any death | Lingring perdition (worse then any death |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.x.9 | And linger not our sure destructions on! | And linger not our sure destructions on. |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.i.90.1 | Exeunt Sir Toby and Maria, Sir Andrew lingering before | |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.163 | But if thou linger in my territories | But if thou linger in my Territories |
| 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 |