| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.iii.89 | Vagabond exile, flaying, pent to linger | Vagabond exile, Fleaing, pent to linger |
| Henry V | H5 II.chorus.31 | Linger your patience on, and we'll digest | Linger your patience on, and wee'l digest |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.iv.54 | Then linger not, my lord. Away! Take horse! | Then linger not my Lord, away, take horse. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.263 | Come, son, away; we may not linger thus. | Come Sonne away, we may not linger thus. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.ii.32 | Why do we linger thus? I cannot rest | Why doe we linger thus? I cannot rest, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.i.26 | Why linger we? Let us lay hands upon him. | Why linger we? Let vs lay hands vpon him. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ix.74 | By the time I linger here. | By the time I linger here, |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.89 | I would not have thee linger in thy pain. | I would not haue thee linger in thy paine? |
| Richard II | R2 II.ii.72 | Which false hope lingers in extremity. | Which false hopes linger in extremity. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.x.9 | And linger not our sure destructions on! | And linger not our sure destructions on. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.163 | But if thou linger in my territories | But if thou linger in my Territories |