| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.v.50 | I do not like ‘But yet’; it does allay | I do not like but yet, it does alay |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.45 | one that loves a cup of hot wine with not a drop of allaying | one that loues a cup of hot Wine, with not a drop of alaying |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iii.84 | Wherein I seem unnatural. Desire not | Wherein I seeme vnnaturall: Desire not t'allay |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iii.85 | T' allay my rages and revenges with | My Rages and Reuenges, with |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vi.22 | Allayments to their act, and by them gather | Allayments to their Act, and by them gather |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.i.60 | Ay, and allay this thy abortive pride, | I, and alay this thy abortiue Pride: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.146 | And when the rage allays, the rain begins. | And when the Rage allayes, the Raine begins. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.viii.42 | My mildness hath allayed their swelling griefs, | My mildnesse hath allay'd their swelling griefes, |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.149.1 | Or but allay the fire of passion. | Or but allay the fire of passion. |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.i.152 | To stop the rumour and allay those tongues | To stop the rumor; and allay those tongues |
| King John | KJ III.i.342 | That nothing can allay, nothing but blood, | That nothing can allay, nothing but blood, |
| King John | KJ V.vii.8 | It would allay the burning quality | It would allay the burning qualitie |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.161 | the mischief of your person it would scarcely allay. | the mischiefe of your person, it would scarsely alay. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ii.173 | To allay with some cold drops of modesty | To allay with some cold drops of modestie |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.111 | O love, be moderate, allay thy ecstasy, | O loue be moderate, allay thy extasie, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.2 | Put the wild waters in this roar, allay them. | Put the wild waters in this Rore; alay them: |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.393 | Allaying both their fury and my passion | Allaying both their fury, and my passion |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.iv.8 | The like allayment could I give my grief. | The like alaiment could I giue my griefe: |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.iii.28 | the gift of a coward to allay the gust he hath in quarrelling, | the gift of a Coward, to allay the gust he hath in quarrelling, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.ii.8 | might be some allay – or I o'erween to think so – which | might be some allay, or I oreweene to thinke so) which |