| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iv.4 | My wife is in a wayward mood today, | My wife is in a wayward moode to day, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.176 | This wimpled, whining, purblind, wayward boy, | This wimpled, whyning, purblinde waiward Boy, |
| Macbeth | Mac III.v.11 | Hath been but for a wayward son, | Hath bene but for a wayward Sonne, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.55 | account of her life to a clod of wayward marl? No, | account of her life to a clod of waiward marle? no |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.289 | My wayward husband hath a hundred times | My wayward Husband hath a hundred times |
| Pericles | Per IV.iv.10 | Is now again thwarting the wayward seas, | Is now againe thwarting thy wayward seas, |
| Pericles | Per V.i.88 | Though wayward fortune did malign my state, | though wayward fortune did maligne my state, |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.142 | To wayward sickliness and age in him. | To wayward sicklinesse, and age in him: |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.29 | From wayward sickness, and no grounded malice. | From wayward sicknesse, and no grounded malice. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.169 | Tetchy and wayward was thy infancy; | Tetchy and wayward was thy Infancie. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.ii.47 | Since this same wayward girl is so reclaimed. | Since this same way-ward Gyrle is so reclaim'd. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.ii.57 | Fie, fie! How wayward is this foolish love, | Fie, fie: how way-ward is this foolish loue; |