| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.93 | dinners and suppers and sleeping-hours excepted: it is | dinners, and suppers, and sleeping hours excepted: it is |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.108 | Lay sleeping on his back. About his neck | Lay sleeping on his back; about his necke |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.117 | When that the sleeping man should stir; for 'tis | When that the sleeping man should stirre; for 'tis |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.223 | Sleeping or waking? mad or well-advised? | Sleeping or waking, mad or well aduisde: |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.356 | Or dead, or sleeping on him? But dead rather: | Or dead, or sleeping on him? But dead rather: |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.30.6 | circle Posthumus round as he lies sleeping | circle Posthumus round as he lies sleeping. |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.35 | 'Tis given out that, sleeping in my orchard, | It's giuen out, that sleeping in mine Orchard, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.59 | Brief let me be. Sleeping within my orchard, | Briefe let me be: Sleeping within mine Orchard, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.74 | Thus was I sleeping by a brother's hand | Thus was I, sleeping, by a Brothers hand, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.121 | And, as the sleeping soldiers in th' alarm, | And as the sleeping Soldiours in th'Alarme, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.3 | sack, and unbuttoning thee after supper, and sleeping | Sacke, and vnbuttoning thee after Supper, and sleeping |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.112 | lethargy, an't please your lordship, a kind of sleeping in | Lethargie, a sleeping of |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.156 | Wake not a sleeping wolf. | wake not a sleeping Wolfe. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iv.61 | When I am sleeping with my ancestors. | When I am sleeping with my Ancestors. |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.22 | How you awake our sleeping sword of war. | How you awake our sleeping Sword of Warre; |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.i.56 | Sleeping or waking must I still prevail, | Sleeping or waking, must I still preuayle, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.iii.49 | Sleeping neglection doth betray to loss | Sleeping neglection doth betray to losse: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iii.41 | By bloody hands in sleeping on your beds! | By bloudy hands, in sleeping on your beds. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.263 | Sleeping or waking, 'tis no matter how, | Sleeping, or Waking, 'tis no matter how, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.197 | I wear no knife to slaughter sleeping men; | I weare no Knife, to slaughter sleeping men, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.226 | Pernicious blood-sucker of sleeping men! | Pernicious blood-sucker of sleeping men. |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.163 | Have wished the sleeping of this business, never desired | Haue wish'd the sleeping of this busines, neuer desir'd |
| King John | KJ II.i.216 | And but for our approach those sleeping stones, | And but for our approch, those sleeping stones, |
| Macbeth | Mac II.ii.53 | Give me the daggers. The sleeping and the dead | Giue me the Daggers: the sleeping, and the dead, |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.i.8 | Sweltered venom, sleeping got, | Sweltred Venom sleeping got, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.170 | The juice of it on sleeping eyelids laid | The iuyce of it, on sleeping eye-lids laid, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.80 | And here the maiden, sleeping sound | And heere the maiden sleeping sound, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.168 | To fan the moonbeams from his sleeping eyes. | To fan the Moone-beames from his sleeping eies. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.8 | While she was in her dull and sleeping hour, | While she was in her dull and sleeping hower, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.38 | I took him sleeping – that is finished too; | I tooke him sleeping (that is finisht to) |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.52 | From sleeping Hermia? I'll believe as soon | From sleeping Hermia? Ile beleeue as soone |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.70 | And hast thou killed him sleeping? O, brave touch! | And hast thou kill'd him sleeping? O braue tutch: |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.100 | That I sleeping here was found | That I sleeping heere was found, Sleepers Lye still. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iii.40 | watchman, for I cannot see how sleeping should offend; | watchman, for I cannot see how sleeping should offend: |
| Richard II | R2 I.iv.8 | Awaked the sleeping rheum, and so by chance | Awak'd the sleepie rhewme, and so by chance |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.77 | For sleeping England long time have I watched. | For sleeping England long time haue I watcht, |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.159 | Some poisoned by their wives, some sleeping killed, | Some poyson'd by their Wiues, some sleeping kill'd, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.287 | And there awake God's gentle-sleeping peace. | And there awake Gods gentle sleeping peace. |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.107 | sleeping. | sleeping. |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.75 | Not sleeping, to engross his idle body, | Not sleeping, to engrosse his idle Body, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.118 | Sleeping and waking, O defend me still! | Sleeping, and waking, oh defend me still. |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.321 | You sleeping safe, they bring to you unrest; | You sleeping safe, they bring you to vnrest: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.244 | A sleeping potion; which so took effect | A sleeping Potion, which so tooke effect |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.488 | But thorough lust and laughter. Pity's sleeping. | But thorow Lust and Laughter: pittie's sleeping: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.254 | It is not Agamemnon's sleeping-hour. | It is not Agamemnons sleeping houre; |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.137 | Before a sleeping giant.’ Tell him so. | Before a sleeping Gyant: tell him so. |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.48 | left Olivia sleeping . . . | left Oliuia sleeping. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.122 | A willing man dies sleeping and all's done. | A willing man dies sleeping, and all's done. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.111 | Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else | Vpon surmizes (all proofes sleeping else, |