| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.36 | In the meantime, what hear you of these | In the meane time, what heare you of these |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.iv.81 | Farewell, my lord. What you shall know meantime | Farwell my Lord, what you shal know mean time |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.iv.25 | Yourself shall go between's. The meantime, lady, | Your selfe shall go between's, the meane time Lady, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.i.5 | I have many other ways to die; meantime | I haue many other wayes to dye: meane time |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iv.173 | Meantime, forget this new-fallen dignity, | Meane time, forget this new-falne dignitie, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.83 | Meantime we thank you for your well-took labour. | Meane time we thanke you, for your well-tooke Labour. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.41 | in the meantime some necessary question of the play be | in the meane time, some necessary Question of the Play be |
| Henry V | H5 V.i.32 | will is. I will desire you to live in the meantime, and | will is: I will desire you to liue in the meane time, and |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.ii.117 | Meantime look gracious on thy prostrate thrall. | Meane time looke gracious on thy prostrate Thrall. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iv.62 | Meantime your cheeks do counterfeit our roses; | Meane time your cheeks do counterfeit our Roses: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iv.121 | Meantime, in signal of my love to thee, | Meane time, in signall of my loue to thee, |
| King John | KJ I.i.103 | And in the meantime sojourned at my father's, | And in the meane time soiourn'd at my fathers; |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.43 | I shall indue you with. Meantime but ask | I shall indue you with: Meane time, but aske |
| King Lear | KL I.i.36 | Meantime we shall express our darker purpose. | Meane time we shal expresse our darker purpose. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.169 | Meantime, receive such welcome at my hand | Meane time, receiue such welcome at my hand, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.309 | My maid Nerissa and myself meantime | My maid Nerrissa, and my selfe meane time |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.149 | Meantime the court shall hear Bellario's letter. | Meane time the Court shall heare Bellarioes Letter. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.ii.97 | known. In the meantime I will draw a bill of properties | knowne. In the meane time, I wil draw a bil of properties, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.254 | the meantime, good Signor Benedick, repair to Leonato's, | the meane time, good Signior Benedicke, repaire to Leonatoes, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.iii.33 | would do my liking. In the meantime, let me be that I | would do my liking: in the meane time, let me be that I |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.ii.42 | for in the meantime I will so fashion the matter that | for in the meane time, I will so fashion the matter, that |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.iv.70 | Meantime let wonder seem familiar, | Meane time let wonder seeme familiar, |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.250 | Much will be seen in that. In the meantime, | Much will be seene in that: In the meane time, |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.67 | Meantime, let this defend my loyalty: | Meane time, let this defend my loyaltie, |
| Richard III | R3 I.i.111 | Meantime, this deep disgrace in brotherhood | Meane time, this deepe disgrace in Brotherhood, |
| Richard III | R3 I.i.116.1 | Meantime, have patience. | Meane time, haue patience. |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.76 | Meantime, God grants that I have need of you. | Meane time, God grants that I haue need of you. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iii.33 | Meantime, but think how I may do thee good, | Meane time, but thinke how I may do the good, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.i.113 | In the meantime, against thou shalt awake, | Where all the kindred of the Capulets lie, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.220 | And lead you, even to death. Meantime forbear, | And lead you euen to death? meane time forbeare, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.246 | The form of death. Meantime I writ to Romeo | The forme of death. Meane time, I writ to Romeo, |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.381 | Of our dear souls. Meantime, sweet sister, | Of our deere soules. Meane time sweet sister, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.19 | of it. I'th' meantime look tenderly to the two prisoners; | of it: I'th meane time looke tenderly / To the two Prisoners. |