| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vi.75.2 | A sly and constant knave. | A slye, and constant knaue, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.160 | Thy sly conveyance and thy lord's false love; | Thy slye conueyance, and thy Lords false loue, |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.iii.39 | There will be woe indeed, lords! The sly whoresons | There will be woe indeed Lords, the slye whorsons |
| King John | KJ II.i.567 | With that same purpose-changer, that sly devil, | With that same purpose-changer, that slye diuel, |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.150 | The sly slow hours shall not determinate | The slye slow houres shall not determinate |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.53 | By silken, sly, insinuating Jacks? | With silken, slye, insinuating Iackes? |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.172 | Thy age confirmed, proud, subtle, sly, and bloody, | Thy Age confirm'd, proud, subtle, slye, and bloody, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.1.0 | Enter Christopher Sly and the Hostess | Enter Begger and Hostes, Christophero Sly. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.1.62 | And when he says he is Sly, say that he dreams, | And when he sayes he is, say that he dreames, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.1.71 | Sly is carried away | |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.2.1.1 | Enter aloft Sly, with attendants; some with apparel, | Enter aloft the drunkard with attendants, some with apparel, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.2.5 | I am Christophero Sly, call not me ‘ honour ’ nor ‘ lordship.’ | I am Christophero Sly, call not mee Honour nor Lordship: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.2.17 | Sly, old Sly's son of Burton-heath, by birth a pedlar, | Slie, old Sies sonne of Burton-heath, by byrth a Pedler, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.2.72 | And not a tinker nor Christophero Sly. | And not a Tinker, nor Christopher Slie. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.2.92 | As Stephen Sly, and did John Naps of Greece, | As Stephen Slie, and old Iohn Naps of Greece, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.2.98.1 | Enter Page as a lady, with attendants. One gives Sly | Enter Lady with Attendants. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iv.59 | Sly, frantic wretch, that holp'st to make me great, | Sly franticke wretch, that holp'st to make me great, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.vi.41 | By some sly trick blunt Thurio's dull proceeding. | By some slie tricke, blunt Thurio's dull proceeding. |