| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.iv.14 | Praying for both parts. | Praying for both parts: |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iii.73 | Now might I do it pat, now 'a is a-praying. | Now might I do it pat, now he is praying, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.103 | praying to purse-taking. | Praying, to Purse-taking. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.186 | Nay, that's past praying for, I have peppered | Nay, that's past praying for, I haue pepper'd |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.4 | Wherein my letters, praying on his side, | Wherein my Letters, praying on his side, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.114 | We have been praying for our husbands' welfare, | We haue bene praying for our husbands welfare |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.76 | But praying, to enrich his watchful soul. | But praying, to enrich his watchfull Soule. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.202 | They shall be praying nuns, not weeping queens; | They shall be praying Nunnes, not weeping Queenes: |