| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.313 | wasteful learning, the other knowing no burden of | wasteful Learning; the other knowing no burthen of |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.284 | Shall stand sore charged for the wasteful vengeance | Shall stand sore charged, for the wastefull vengeance |
| Henry V | H5 III.i.14 | Swilled with the wild and wasteful ocean. | Swill'd with the wild and wastfull Ocean. |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.16 | Is wasteful and ridiculous excess. | Is wastefull, and ridiculous excesse. |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.111 | For ruin's wasteful entrance; there the murderers, | For Ruines wastfull entrance: there the Murtherers, |
| Richard II | R2 III.iv.55 | Hath seized the wasteful King. O, what pity is it | hath seiz'd the wastefull King. / Oh, what pitty is it, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.ii.167 | I have retired me to a wasteful cock | I haue retyr'd me to a wastefull cocke, |