| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.104 | Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly. | Cold wisedome waighting on superfluous follie. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.69 | with my humour – as well as waiting in the court, I can | with my humour, as well as waiting in the Court, I can |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.ii.1.1 | Enter Portia with her waiting-woman, Nerissa | Enter Portia with her waiting woman Nerissa. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.30 | apparel and make him my waiting-gentlewoman? He | apparell, and make him my waiting gentlewoman? he |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.ii.13 | waiting-gentlewoman to Hero. | waiting gentle-woman to Hero. |
| Richard III | R3 II.i.123 | But when your carters or your waiting vassals | But when your Carters, or your wayting Vassalls |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.i.1.1 | Flaminius waiting to speak with Lucullus from his | Flaminius waiting to speake with a Lord from his |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.iv.1.3 | of Timon's creditors, waiting for his coming out | Then enter Lucius and Hortensius. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.iv.48 | If money were as certain as your waiting, | if Money were as certaine as your waiting, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.ii.94 | By all Diana's waiting-women yond, | By all Dianas waiting women yond: |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.93 | Slaughters a thousand waiting upon that. | Slaughters a thousand, wayting vpon that. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.iii.71 | yet I can read waiting gentlewoman in the scape: this | yet I can reade Waiting-Gentlewoman in the scape: this |