| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.127 | That to your wanting may be ministered. | That to your wanting may be ministred. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.i.8 | Who, wanting guilders to redeem their lives, | Who wanting gilders to redeeme their liues, |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.193 | There's one thing wanting, which I doubt not but | there's one thing wanting, / Which (I doubt not) but |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.50 | Wanting the scythe, all uncorrected, rank, | Wanting the Sythe, withall vncorrected, ranke; |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.82 | Were our tears wanting to this funeral, | Were our Teares wanting to this Funerall, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.143 | Whilst such a worthy leader, wanting aid, | Whil'st such a worthy Leader, wanting ayd, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.ii.27 | The other lords, like lions wanting food, | The other Lords, like Lyons wanting foode, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.vi.102 | Wherein thy counsel and consent is wanting. | Wherein thy counsaile and consent is wanting: |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.54 | But in this kind, wanting your father's voice, | But in this kinde, wanting your fathers voyce. |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.339 | He that is robbed, not wanting what is stolen, | He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stolne, |
| Pericles | Per I.iv.19 | And wanting breath to speak, help me with tears. | And wanting breath to speake, helpe mee with teares. |
| Richard II | R2 II.iii.10 | In Ross and Willoughby, wanting your company, | In Rosse and Willoughby, wanting your companie, |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.179 | Wanting the manage of unruly jades. | Wanting the manage of vnruly Iades. |
| Richard II | R2 III.iv.13 | For of joy, being altogether wanting, | For if of Ioy, being altogether wanting, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.78 | Than death prorogued, wanting of thy love. | Then death proroged wanting of thy Loue. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.15 | Or, wanting that, with tears distilled by moans. | Or wanting that, with teares destil'd by mones; |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.68 | As the moon does, by wanting light to give. | As the Moone do's, by wanting light to giue: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.238 | Or, wanting strength to do thee so much good, | Or wanting strength to doe thee so much good, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.18 | Wanting a hand to give it action? | Wanting a hand to giue it action, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.25 | Wanting his manage; and they will almost | Wanting his mannage: and they will almost, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.108 | Melts into drops; so sorrow wanting form | Melts into drops, so sorrow wanting forme |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.v.33 | And see what's wanting. Where's the bavian? | And see what's wanting; wher's the Bavian? |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.v.38 | Quousque tandem? Here is a woman wanting! | Quo usque taudem. Here is a woman wanting |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.5 | To those above us. Let no due be wanting; | To those above us: Let no due be wanting, |