| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.215 | Our slow designs when we ourselves are dull. | Our slow designes, when we our selues are dull. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.320.2 | Too slow a messenger. | Too slow a Messenger. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.i.117 | Had not their bark been very slow of sail; | Had not their backe beene very slow of saile; |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.i.64 | So slackly guarded, and the search so slow | So slackely guarded, and the search so slow |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.iv.13 | Could best express how slow his soul sailed on, | Could best expresse how slow his Soule sayl'd on, |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vi.10.1 | But though slow, deadly. | But though slow, deadly. |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.ii.72 | Could never go so slow: I have heard of riding wagers, | Could neuer go so slow: I haue heard of Riding wagers, |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.99 | Thou art too slow to do thy master's bidding | Thou art too slow to do thy Masters bidding |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.58 | He hath, my lord, wrung from me my slow leave | He hath my Lord: |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.202 | Goes slow and stately by them. Thrice he walked | Goes slow and stately: By them thrice he walkt, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vi.17 | ourselves too slow of sail, we put on a compelled valour, | our selues tooslow of Saile, we put on a compelled Valour. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.256 | Come, come, Lord Mortimer, you are as slow | Come, come, Lord Mortimer, you are as slow, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.i.5 | Who with their drowsy, slow, and flagging wings | Who with their drowsie, slow, and flagging wings |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.ii.72 | Away, my lord! You are slow. For shame, away! | Away my Lord, you are slow, for shame away. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.viii.40 | Nor posted off their suits with slow delays; | Nor posted off their suites with slow delayes, |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.132 | Requires slow pace at first. Anger is like | Requires slow pace at first. Anger is like |
| King John | KJ III.iii.31 | But thou shalt have; and creep time ne'er so slow, | But thou shalt haue: and creepe time nere so slow, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.53 | for he is very slow-gaited. But I go. | for he is verie slow gated: but I goe. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.57 | metal heavy, dull, and slow? | mettall heauie, dull, and slow? |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.59.1 | I say lead is slow. | I say Lead is slow. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.60 | Is that lead slow which is fired from a gun? | Is that Lead slow which is fir'd from a Gunne? |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.300 | Other slow arts entirely keep the brain, | Other slow Arts intirely keepe the braine: |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iv.18 | That swiftest wing of recompense is slow | That swiftest Wing of Recompence is slow, |
| Macbeth | Mac III.i.95 | Distinguishes the swift, the slow, the subtle, | Distinguishes the swift, the slow, the subtle, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.3 | Another moon – but O, methinks how slow | Another Moon: but oh, me thinkes, how slow |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.ii.63 | give it me; for I am slow of study. | giue it me, for I am slow of studie. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.122 | Slow in pursuit, but matched in mouth like bells, | Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bels, |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.54 | To point his slow unmoving finger at! | To point his slow, and mouing finger at. |
| Pericles | Per IV.ii.60 | Alack that Leonine was so slack, so slow! | Alacke that Leonine was so slacke, so slow, |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.150 | The sly slow hours shall not determinate | The slye slow houres shall not determinate |
| Richard II | R2 V.ii.10 | With slow but stately pace kept on his course, | With slow, but stately pace, kept on his course: |
| Richard III | R3 II.iv.15 | Because sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste. | Because sweet Flowres are slow, and Weeds make hast. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iii.90 | Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast. | Wisely and slow, they stumble that run fast. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.v.17 | Unwieldy, slow, heavy and pale as lead. | Vnwieldie, slow, heauy, and pale as lead. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.vi.15 | Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow. | Too swift arriues as tardie as too slow. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.i.3 | And I am nothing slow to slack his haste. | And I am nothing slow to slack his hast. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.240 | But slow in speech, yet sweet as springtime flowers. | But slow in speech: yet sweet as spring-time flowers. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.i.28 | cold comfort, for being slow in thy hot office? | cold comfort, for being slow in thy hot office. |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.253 | The Man i'th' Moon's too slow – till new-born chins | The Man i'th Moone's too slow, till new-borne chinnes |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.21 | churlish as the bear, slow as the elephant; a man into | churlish as the Beare, slow as the Elephant: a man into |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.73 | manner how: as, a sad face, a reverend carriage, a slow | manner how: as a sad face, a reuerend carriage, a slow |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.i.125 | And yet it cannot overtake your slow purse. | And yet it cannot ouer-take your slow purse. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.i.12 | And yet I was last chidden for being too slow. | And yet I was last chidden for being too slow. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.324 | Item: She is slow in words. | Item, she is slow in words. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.326 | To be slow in words is a woman's only virtue. I pray | To be slow in words, is a womans onely vertue: I pray |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.340 | she is slow of; of her purse, she shall not, for that I'll | she is slow of: of her purse, shee shall not, for that ile |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.ii.62 | Ay, I would I were deaf; it makes me have a slow | I, I would I were deafe: it makes me haue a slow |