| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.ii.42 | It is an honour 'longing to our house, | It is an honour longing to our house, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.vi.48 | Longing for what it had not. Nay, the dust | Longing for what it had not. Nay, the dust |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.393 | longing and liking, proud, fantastical, apish, shallow, | longing, and liking, proud, fantastical, apish, shallow, |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.178 | Nice longing, slanders, mutability; | Nice-longing, Slanders, Mutability; |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.196 | Of hope, not longing, mine Italian brain | Of hope, not longing; mine Italian braine, |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.ii.32 | The many to them 'longing, have put off | The many to them longing, haue put off |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.ii.81 | Than vainly longing. What we oft do best, | Then vainly longing. What we oft doe best, |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.86 | Sir, she came in great with child, and longing – | Sir, she came in great with childe: and longing |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.96 | and longing, as I said, for prunes, and having | and longing (as I said) for prewyns: and hauing |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.iv.103 | That long I have been sick for, ere I'd yield | That longing haue bin sicke for, ere I'ld yeeld |
| Pericles | Per V.iii.83 | Lord Cerimon, we do our longing stay | Lord Cerimon wee doe our longing stay, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.256 | Sir, you have saved my longing, and I feed | Sir, you haue sau'd my longing, and I feed |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.237 | To see us here unarmed. I have a woman's longing, | To see vs here vnarm'd: I haue a womans longing, |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iv.34 | More longing, wavering, sooner lost and worn, | More longing, wauering, sooner lost and worne, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.vii.17 | By longing for that food so long a time. | By longing for that food so long a time. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.vii.85 | To furnish me upon my longing journey. | To furnish me vpon my longing iourney: |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.190 | Which breeds a deeper longing, cure their surfeit | Which breeds a deeper longing, cure their surfeit |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.iii.26.2 | How his longing | How his longing |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.246 | And all the longing maids that ever loved 'em, | And all the longing Maides that ever lov'd, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.i.144 | Lies longing for me. For the tackling | Lyes longing for me; For the Tackling |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.663.1 | I have a woman's longing. | I haue a Womans Longing. |