| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.252 | Conjures the wandering stars, and makes them stand | Coniure the wandring Starres, and makes them stand |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.15 | not ‘ by Phoebus, he, that wandering knight so fair.’ | not by Phoebus hee, that wand'ring Knight so faire. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.iii.76 | Come, come, return; return, thou wandering lord; | Come, come, returne; returne thou wandering Lord, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.iv.16 | Ruled like a wandering planet over me, | Rul'd like a wandering Plannet ouer me, |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.127 | Wandering, at last we climbed unto a hill, | Wandring at last we clymd vnto a hill, |
| King John | KJ IV.i.92 | A grain, a dust, a gnat, a wandering hair, | A graine, a dust, a gnat, a wandering haire, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.ii.41 | What is Thisbe? – a wandering knight? | What is Thisbie, a wandring Knight? |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.41 | Fair love, you faint with wandering in the wood; | Faire loue, you faint with wandring in ye woods, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.381 | At whose approach ghosts wandering here and there | At whose approach Ghosts wandring here and there, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.97 | Swifter than the wandering moon. | Swifter then the wandering Moone. |
| Pericles | Per I.i.97 | For vice repeated is like the wandering wind, | For Vice repeated, is like the wandring Wind, |
| Richard II | R2 II.iii.119 | A wandering vagabond, my rights and royalties | A wandring Vagabond; my Rights and Royalties |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.49 | Whilst we were wandering with the Antipodes, | |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.39 | To find the empty, vast, and wandering air, | To find the empty, vast, and wand'ring ayre: |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.52 | And so he vanished. Then came wandering by | And so he vanish'd. Then came wand'ring by, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.i.3 | Now, for my life, she's wandering to the Tower | Now, for my Life, shee's wandring to the Tower, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.i.88 | To cast thy wandering eyes on every stale, | To cast thy wandring eyes on euery stale: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.i.104 | Let it be called the wild and wandering flood, | Let it be cald the wild and wandring flood, |