| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.309.1 | That sucks the nurse asleep? | That suckes the Nurse asleepe. |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.ii.115 | That babies lulls asleep! The smiles of knaves | That Babies lull a-sleepe: The smiles of Knaues |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.v.2 | here? I think our fellows are asleep. | heere? I thinke our Fellowes are asleepe. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.145.7 | asleep, leaves him. Anon comes in another man; takes | a-sleepe, leaues him. Anon comes in a Fellow, takes |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iii.89 | When he is drunk asleep, or in his rage, | When he is drunke asleepe: or in his Rage, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.219 | But I will find him when he lies asleep, | But I will finde him when he lyes asleepe, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.513 | Falstaff! Fast asleep behind the arras, and snorting | Falstaffe? fast asleepe behinde the Arras, and snorting |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.iii.96 | The other night I fell asleep here, behind the | The other Night I fell asleepe heere behind the |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.iii.22 | And now their pride and mettle is asleep, | And now their pride and mettall is asleepe, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.192 | Then death rock me asleep, abridge my doleful days! | then Death rocke me asleepe, abridge my dolefull dayes: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.i.5 | Are at this hour asleep! O sleep, O gentle sleep, | Are at this howre asleepe? O Sleepe, O gentle Sleepe, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.ii.39 | Whose dangerous eyes may well be charmed asleep | Whose dangerous eyes may well be charm'd asleepe, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iv.124 | Had found some months asleep and leaped them over. | Had found some Moneths asleepe, and leap'd them ouer. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.ii.122 | I think her old familiar is asleep. | I thinke her old Familiar is asleepe. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.247 | Watch thou, and wake when others be asleep, | Watch thou, and wake when others be asleepe, |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.i.14 | Fall asleep, or hearing die. | Fall asleepe, or hearing dye. |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.ii.81 | She is asleep. Good wench, let's sit down quiet, | She is asleep: Good wench, let's sit down quiet, |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.229 | Boy! Lucius! Fast asleep? It is no matter. | Boy: Lucius: Fast asleepe? It is no matter, |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.265.2 | Lucius falls asleep | |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.v.32 | Strato, thou hast been all this while asleep; | Strato, thou hast bin all this while asleepe: |
| King Edward III | E3 II.ii.175 | Which now lies fast asleep within my heart. | Which now lies fast a sleepe within my hart, |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.15 | Got 'tween asleep and wake? Well then, | Got 'tweene a sleepe, and wake? Well then, |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.47 | Where's my Fool? Ho, I think the world's asleep. | wher's my Foole? Ho, I thinke the world's asleepe, |
| Macbeth | Mac I.vii.61 | And we'll not fail. When Duncan is asleep – | And wee'le not fayle: when Duncan is asleepe, |
| Macbeth | Mac V.i.20 | upon my life, fast asleep. Observe her; stand close. | vp-on my life fast asleepe: obserue her, stand close. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.177 | I'll watch Titania when she is asleep, | Ile watch Titania, when she is asleepe, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.7 | At our quaint spirits. Sing me now asleep; | At our queint spirits: Sing me now asleepe, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.107 | Dead? – or asleep? I see no blood, no wound. | Deade or asleepe? I see no bloud, no wound, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.127 | My lord, this is my daughter here asleep, | My Lord, this is my daughter heere asleepe, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.203 | asleep! – I have had a most rare vision. I have had a | asleepe: I haue had a most rare vision. I had a |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.316 | Asleep, my love? | Asleepe my Loue? |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iii.65 | How if the nurse be asleep and will | How if the nurse be asleepe and will |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.96 | Faith, half asleep. | Faith, halfe a sleepe. |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.96 | There lies the Duke asleep, and there the keys. | There lies the Duke asleepe, and there the Keyes. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.52 | In bed asleep, while they do dream things true. | In bed a sleepe while they do dreame things true. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.58 | Over men's noses as they lie asleep. | ouer mens noses as they lie asleepe: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.80 | Tickling a parson's nose as 'a lies asleep; | tickling a Parsons nose as a lies asleepe, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.i.25 | because he hath wakened thy dog that hath lain asleep in | because he hath wakened thy Dog that hath laine asleepe in |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.8 | Marry, and amen! How sound is she asleep! | Marrie and Amen: how sound is she a sleepe? |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.1.14.1 | He falls asleep | Falles asleepe. |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.232 | I have left asleep. And for the rest o'th' fleet, | I haue left asleep: and for the rest o'th' Fleet |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.191 | discretion so weakly. Will you laugh me asleep, for I | discretion so weakly: Will you laugh me asleepe, for I |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.194 | What, all so soon asleep? I wish mine eyes | What, all so soone asleepe? I wish mine eyes |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.217 | This is a strange repose, to be asleep | This is a strange repose, to be asleepe |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.219.1 | And yet so fast asleep. | And yet so fast asleepe. |
| The Tempest | Tem II.ii.148 | monster! When's god's asleep, he'll rob his bottle. | Monster, when's god's a sleepe he'll rob his Bottle. |
| The Tempest | Tem III.ii.60 | Yea, yea, my lord, I'll yield him thee asleep, | Yea, yea my Lord, Ile yeeld him thee asleepe, |
| The Tempest | Tem III.ii.114 | Within this half-hour will he be asleep. | Within this halfe houre will he be asleepe, |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.98 | There shalt thou find the mariners asleep | There shalt thou finde the Marriners asleepe |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.29 | Of lullaby to bring her babe asleep. | Of Lullabie, to bring her Babe asleepe. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.194 | Where I espied the panther fast asleep. | Where I espied the Panther fast asleepe. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iv.50 | He would have dropped his knife and fell asleep, | He would haue dropt his knife and fell asleepe, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.162 | Sung thee asleep, his loving breast thy pillow; | Sung thee asleepe, his Louing Brest, thy Pillow: |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.137 | speak with you. I told him you were asleep; he seems to | speak with you. I told him you were asleepe, he seems to |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.25 | Haply when they have judged me fast asleep, | Haply when they haue iudg'd me fast asleepe, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.ii.132 | By my halidom, I was fast asleep. | By my hallidome, I was fast asleepe. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.ii.60 | have matter to rehearse, though credit be asleep and not | haue matter to rehearse, though Credit be asleepe, and not |