| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.231 | Then you live about her waist, or in the middle | Then you liue about her waste, or in the middle |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.323 | Hal, I was not an eagle's talon in the waist – I could have | (Hal) I was not an Eagles Talent in the Waste, I could haue |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.144 | were greater and my waist slenderer. | were greater, and my waste slenderer. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.iii.20 | Who now is girdled with a waist of iron | Who now is girdled with a waste of Iron, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.v.94 | Shall I not give my girdle from my waist, | Shall I not giue my girdle from my wast, |
| King John | KJ II.i.217 | That as a waist doth girdle you about, | That as a waste doth girdle you about |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.124 | Down from the waist they are centaurs, | Downe from the waste they are Centaures, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.i.50 | An your waist, mistress, were as slender as my wit, | And your waste Mistris, were as slender as my wit, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.i.51 | One o' these maids' girdles for your waist should be fit. | One a these Maides girdles for your waste should be fit. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.183 | A gait, a state, a brow, a breast, a waist, | a gate, a state, a brow, a brest, a waste, |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.38 | His neck will come to your waist – a cord, sir. | His necke will come to your wast, a Cord sir. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iii.38 | waist two yards about. But I am now about no waste – | waste two yards about: but I am now about no waste: |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.ii.33 | waist downward, all slops, and a Spaniard from the hip | |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.197 | Now in the waist, the deck, in every cabin | Now in the Waste, the Decke, in euery Cabyn, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.30 | And buckle in a waist most fathomless | And buckle in a waste most fathomlesse, |