| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.97 | It's past the size of dreaming. Nature wants stuff | It's past the size of dreaming: Nature wants stuffe |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.198 | Stay we no longer, dreaming of renown, | Stay we no longer, dreaming of Renowne, |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.34 | Dreaming on both, for all thy blessed youth | Dreaming on both, for all thy blessed youth |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.52 | That creep into the dreaming bridegroom's ear | That creepe into the dreaming bride-groomes eare, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.331 | Who, but for dreaming on this fond exploit, | Who (but for dreaming on this fond exploit) |
| The Tempest | Tem III.ii.141 | Will make me sleep again; and then, in dreaming, | Will make me sleepe againe, and then in dreaming, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.ii.10 | And dreaming night will hide our joys no longer, | And dreaming night will hide our eyes no longer: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.iii.79 | This foolish, dreaming, superstitious girl | This foolish, dreaming, superstitious girle, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.iii.5 | drinking; dreaming of another world, and a better; and | drinking, / Dreaming of another world, and a better; and |