| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.181 | well disgested. You stayed well by't in Egypt. | well disgested: you staid well by't in Egypt. |
| As You Like It | AYL I.iii.65 | Ay, Celia, we stayed her for your sake, | I Celia, we staid her for your sake, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.237 | Very like, very like. Stayed it long? | Very like, very like: staid it long? |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iii.57 | And you are stayed for. There – my blessing with thee. | And you are staid for there: my blessing with you; |
| Hamlet | Ham II.i.91 | As 'a would draw it. Long stayed he so. | As he would draw it. Long staid he so, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.133 | She should have stayed in France, and starved in France, | She should haue staid in France, and steru'd in France |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.5 | Stayed me a prisoner in my chamber when | Staid me a Prisoner in my Chamber, when |
| King John | KJ II.i.58 | Whose leisure I have stayed, have given him time | Whose leisure I haue staid, haue giuen him time |
| King John | KJ V.v.2 | But stayed and made the western welkin blush, | But staid, and made the Westerne Welkin blush, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.i.60 | I would have stayed till I had made you merry, | I would haue staid till I had made you merry, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.vi.48 | And we are stayed for at Bassanio's feast. | And we are staid for at Bassanio's feast. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.163 | Art thou so hasty? I have stayed for thee, | Art thou so hasty? I haue staid for thee |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.iii.159 | O Lord, I could have stayed here all the night | O Lord, I could haue staid here all night, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.ii.12 | So that my speed to Mantua there was stayed. | So that my speed to Mantua there was staid. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.ii.83 | Your ships are stayed at Venice, and the Duke, | Your ships are staid at Venice, and the Duke |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.181 | Away, for thou hast stayed us here too long. | Away, / For thou hast staid vs heere too long. |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iv.24 | Hath stayed upon some favour that it loves. | Hath staid vpon some fauour that it loues: |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.ii.19.1 | Sir Proteus, you are stayed for. | Sir Protheus: you are staid for. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.363 | For thee! Ay, who art thou? He hath stayed for | For thee? I, who art thou? he hath staid for |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.366 | Thou must run to him, for thou hast stayed so | Thou must run to him; for thou hast staid so |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.i.20 | Some sixteen months, and longer might have stayed, | Some sixteene moneths, and longer might haue staid, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.i.101 | I knew to be your brother – where she stayed, | I knew to be your brother, where she staid, |