| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xiv.47 | Lie down, and stray no farther. Now all labour | Lye downe and stray no farther. Now all labour |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.ii.120 | Strike up our drums, pursue the scattered stray; | Strike vp our Drummes, pursue the scatter'd stray, |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.160 | But taken and impounded as a stray | But taken and impounded as a Stray, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.x.24 | for a stray, for entering his fee-simple without leave. | for a stray, for entering his Fee-simple without leaue. |
| King Lear | KL I.i.209 | I would not from your love make such a stray | I would not from your loue make such a stray, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.30 | Be here at Belmont. She doth stray about | Be heere at Belmont, she doth stray about |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.392 | Through this house each fairy stray. | Through this house each Fairy stray. |
| Pericles | Per I.i.105 | And if Jove stray, who dares say Jove doth ill? | And if Ioue stray, who dares say, Ioue doth ill: |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.206 | Farewell, my liege. Now no way can I stray; | Farewell (my Liege) now no way can I stray, |
| The Tempest | Tem III.iii.10 | Whom thus we stray to find, and the sea mocks | Whom thus we stray to finde, and the Sea mocks |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.i.74 | Indeed, a sheep doth very often stray, | Indeede a Sheepe doth very often stray, |