| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.11 | Than was his loss, to course your flying flags | Then was his losse, to course your flying Flagges, |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vii.20 | Or like the Parthian I shall flying fight; | Orlike the Parthian I shall flying fight, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iii.6 | And but the backs of Britons seen; all flying | And but the backes of Britaines seene; all flying |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iii.24 | ‘ Our Britain's harts die flying, not our men: | Our Britaines hearts dye flying, not our men, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.339 | pistol kills a sparrow flying. | Pistoll kills a Sparrow flying. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.1 | Believe me, lords, for flying at the brook, | Beleeue me Lords, for flying at the Brooke, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.397 | So shouldst thou either turn my flying soul, | So should'st thou eyther turne my flying soule, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.v.130 | Having the fearful flying hare in sight, | Hauing the fearfull flying Hare in sight, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.i.109 | Flying for succour to his servant Banister, | Flying for succour to his Seruant Banister, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.437 | An unreputed mote, flying in the sun, | An vnreputed mote, flying in the Sunne, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iv.1 | Alarum. Enter a many Frenchmen flying. After them Prince Edward running. Then enter King John and the Duke of Lorraine | Alarum. Enter a many French men flying. After them Prince Edward runing. Then enter King Iohn and Duke of Loraine. |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.86 | The images of revolt and flying-off. | The images of reuolt and flying off. |
| Macbeth | Mac V.v.48 | There is nor flying hence nor tarrying here. | There is nor flying hence, nor tarrying here. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.202 | Pursuing that that flies, and flying what pursues.’ | "Pursuing that that flies, and flying what pursues. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.156 | Flying between the cold moon and the earth | Flying betweene the cold Moone and the earth, |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.285 | And thou art flying to a fresher clime. | |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.27 | The enemy flying. | The enemy flying. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.141 | And slaves they are to me, that send them flying. | And slaues they are to me, that send them flying. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.iii.29 | And on the justice of my flying hence, | And on the iustice of my flying hence, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.v.6 | And clamours through the wild air flying. | And clamors through the wild ayre flying. |