| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.vi.76.2 | Ay me most wretched, | Aye me most wretched, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iv.106 | Ay me, poor man, how pale and wan he looks. | Aye me poore man, how pale and wan he looks. |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.321 | Where is thy head? Where's that? Ay me! Where's that? | Where is thy head? where's that? Aye me! where's that? |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.iv.27 | The certainty of this hard life, aye hopeless | The certainty of this heard life, aye hopelesse |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.210 | Italian fiend! Ay me, most credulous fool, | Italian Fiend. Aye me, most credulous Foole, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.210 | This world is not for aye, nor 'tis not strange | This world is not for aye, nor 'tis not strange |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.52.2 | Ay me, what act, | Aye me; what act, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.iv.12 | O, prenez miséricorde! Ayez pitié de | O prennes miserecordie aye pitez de |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.70 | This get I by his death. Ay me, unhappy, | This get I by his death: Aye me vnhappie, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.120 | Ay me! I can no more. Die, Margaret! | Aye me, I can no more: Dye Elinor, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.380 | Ay me! What is this world! What news are these! | Aye me! What is this World? What newes are these? |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.iv.39 | I must go in. Ay me, how weak a thing | I must go in: / Aye me! How weake a thing |
| King John | KJ I.i.269 | May easily win a woman's. Ay, my mother, | May easily winne a womans: aye my mother, |
| King John | KJ III.i.305 | O husband, hear me! Ay, alack, how new | O husband heare me: aye, alacke, how new |
| King John | KJ V.iii.14 | Ay me! This tyrant fever burns me up, | Aye me, this tyrant Feauer burnes mee vp, |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.233 | To bid my King and master aye good night:. | To bid my King and Master aye good night. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.139 | ‘ Ay me!’ says one; ‘ O Jove!’ the other cries. | Aye me, sayes one! O Ioue, the other cries! |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.i.133 | Stand aye accursed in the calendar. | Stand aye accursed in the Kalender. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.71 | For aye to be in shady cloister mewed, | For aye to be in shady Cloister mew'd, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.90 | For aye austerity and single life. | For aie, austerity, and single life. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.153 | Ay me, for pity! – What a dream was here! | Aye me, for pitty; what a dreame was here? |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.387 | And must for aye consort with black-browed night. | And must for aye consort with blacke browd night. |
| Pericles | Per IV.i.17 | While summer days doth last. Ay me, poor maid, | while Sommer dayes doth last: Aye me poore maid, |
| Pericles | Per epilogue.V.iii.10 | The worth that learned charity aye wears. | The worth that learned charitie aye weares. |
| Richard II | R2 V.ii.40 | Whose state and honour I for aye allow. | Whose State, and Honor, I for aye allow. |
| Richard III | R3 II.iv.49 | Ay me! I see the ruin of my house. | Aye me! I see the ruine of my House: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.161.2 | Ay me! sad hours seem long. | Aye me, sad houres seeme long: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.43 | Art thou gone so, love-lord, aye husband-friend? | Art thou gone so? Loue, Lord, ay Husband, Friend, |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.290 | To the perpetual wink for aye might put | To the perpetuall winke for aye might put |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.219 | For aye thy foot-licker. | For aye thy foot-licker. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.50 | To thee be worship; and thy saints for aye | To thee be worshipt, and thy Saints for aye: |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.iv.78 | Taught thee to make vast Neptune weep for aye | Taught thee to make vast Neptune weepe for aye |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.64 | Ay me, this object kills me. | Aye me this obiect kils me. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.158 | To feed for aye her lamp and flames of love; | To feede for aye her lampe and flames of loue. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.iii.111 | But edifies another with her deeds. | But edifies another with her deedes. Pand. Why, but heare you? Troy. Hence brother lackie; ignomie and shame / Pursue thy life, and liue aye with thy name. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.x.16 | Let him that will a screech-owl aye be called | Let him that will a screechoule aye be call'd, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.x.34 | Pursue thy life, and live aye with thy name! | Pursue thy life, and liue aye with thy name. |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.137 | Ay me, detested! How am I beguiled! | Aye me detested, how am I beguil'd? |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.195 | Or sentencing for aye their vigour dumb, | Or sentencing for ay their vigour dombe, |