| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.i.45 | Nay, an you be so tardy come no more in my | Nay, and you be so tardie, come no more in my |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.i.44 | Say, is your tardy master now at hand? | Say, is your tardie master now at hand? |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.25 | tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot | tardie off, though it make the vnskilfull laugh, cannot |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.107 | Do you not come your tardy son to chide, | Do you not come your tardy Sonne to chide, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iii.28 | These tardy tricks of yours will, on my life, | These tardie Tricks of yours will (on my life) |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.iv.7.2 | O, my lord, you're tardy. | O my Lord, y'are tardy; |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.296 | However he puts on this tardy form. | How-euer he puts on this tardie forme: |
| Richard III | R3 II.i.91 | Some tardy cripple bare the countermand, | Some tardie Cripple bare the Countermand, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.i.51 | Be not ta'en tardy by unwise delay. | Be not ta'ne tardie by vnwise delay. |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.226 | That you have ta'en a tardy sluggard here. | That you haue tane a tardie sluggard heere? |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.vi.15 | Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow. | Too swift arriues as tardie as too slow. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.iv.140 | The prince must think me tardy and remiss, | The Prince must thinke me tardy and remisse, |