| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.40 | What have I done that thou darest wag thy tongue | What haue I done, that thou dar'st wag thy tong, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.263 | Until my eyelids will no longer wag. | Vntill my eielids will no longer wag. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.16 | And I prithee sweet wag, when thou art King, as God | And I prythee sweet Wagge, when thou art King, as God |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.23 | Marry then, sweet wag, when thou art King let | Marry then, sweet Wagge, when thou art King, let |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.44 | How now, how now, mad wag? What, in thy | How now? how now mad Wagge? What in thy |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.58 | wag, shall there be gallows standing in England when | Wag, shall there be Gallowes standing in England when |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.ii.48 | What, Hal! How now, mad wag? What a devil | What Hal? How now mad Wag, what a Deuill |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.33 | Durst wag his tongue in censure. When these suns – | Durst wagge his Tongue in censure, when these Sunnes |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iii.131 | He that dares most, but wag his finger at thee. | Hee, that dares most, but wag his finger at thee. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.108 | Making the bold wag by their praises bolder. | Making the bold wagg by their praises bolder. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.76 | To wag their high-tops and to make no noise | To wagge their high tops, and to make no noise |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iii.6 | Discard, bully Hercules, cashier. Let them wag; | Discard, (bully Hercules) casheere; let them wag; |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.i.212 | Here, boys, here, here! Shall we wag? | Heere boyes, heere, heere: shall we wag? |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.iii.64 | And I will provoke him to't, or let him wag. | And I will prouoke him to't, or let him wag. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.iii.88 | Let us wag, then. | Let vs wag then. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.16 | And, sorrow wag, cry ‘ hem!’ when he should groan, | And sorrow, wagge, crie hem, when he should grone, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.iv.86 | Why, boy? Why, wag, how now? What's the | Why, Boy? Why wag: how now? what's the |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.66 | The verier wag o'th' two? | The veryer Wag o'th' two? |