| 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 |
| 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 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 2 | 2H4 II.iv.290 | by this light – flesh and corrupt blood (laying his hand | by this light Flesh, and corrupt Blood, |
| 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 VIII | H8 I.i.84 | Have broke their backs with laying manors on 'em | Haue broke their backes with laying Mannors on 'em |
| 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, |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iii.43 | By each at once her choppy finger laying | By each at once her choppie finger laying |
| 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. |
| 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 |
| 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. |