| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL II.i.69 | I'll bring you to him straight. | Ile bring you to him strait. |
| As You Like It | AYL III.v.136.2 | I'll write it straight: | Ile write it strait: |
| As You Like It | AYL V.ii.62 | I know into what straits of fortune she is driven, and it | I know into what straights of Fortune she is driuen, and it |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.iii.25 | Put him to choler straight. He hath been used | Put him to Choller straite, he hath bene vs'd |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.i.38 | have crooked noses, but to owe such straight arms, | haue crook'd Noses, but to owe such straite Armes, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iii.7 | Through a straight lane; the enemy full-hearted, | Through a strait Lane, the Enemy full-heart'd, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iii.11 | Merely through fear, that the strait pass was dammed | Meerely through feare, that the strait passe was damm'd |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.iii.79 | Some certain edicts and some strait decrees | Some certaine Edicts, and some strait Decrees, |
| Henry V | H5 III.vii.52 | your straight strossers. | your strait Strossers. |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.158 | but a ballad. A good leg will fall; a straight back will | but a Ballad; a good Legge will fall, a strait Backe will |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.iv.40 | Come, go; I will dispatch the horsemen straight; | Come go, I will dispatch the Horsemen strait: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.20 | Proceed no straiter 'gainst our uncle Gloucester | Proceed no straiter 'gainst our Vnckle Gloster, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.258 | Yet, notwithstanding such a strait edict, | Yet notwithstanding such a strait Edict, |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.112.1 | And straight is cold again. | And straite is cold agen. |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iv.7 | But, straight retiring, so dismayed the rest | But straite retyring so dismaide the rest, |
| King John | KJ II.i.149 | King Philip, determine what we shall do straight. | King Lewis, determine what we shall doe strait. |
| King John | KJ V.vii.42 | I beg cold comfort; and you are so strait | I begge cold comfort: and you are so straight |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.ii.161 | He can command, lets it straight feel the spur; | He can command; lets it strait feele the spur: |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.iv.85 | I will about it straight, | I will about it strait; |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.9 | Whom I believe to be most strait in virtue, | (Whom I beleeue to be most strait in vertue) |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.244 | If his own life answer the straitness of his proceeding, | If his owne life, / Answere the straitnesse of his proceeding, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.iii.171 | And I will go and purse the ducats straight, | And I will goe and purse the ducats straite. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.iv.24 | Ay, marry, I'll be gone about it straight. | I marry, ile be gone about it strait. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ix.1 | Quick, quick I pray thee! Draw the curtain straight. | Quick, quick I pray thee, draw the curtain strait, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.109 | I will answer it straight. I have done all this. | I will answere it strait, I haue done all this: |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.vi.32 | Straight marry her. To this her mother's plot | Strait marry her: to this her Mothers plot |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.87 | Farewell, my Desdemona, I'll come to thee straight. | Farewell my Desdemona, Ile come to thee strait. |
| Richard III | R3 I.i.85 | His majesty hath straitly given in charge | His Maiesty hath straightly giuen in charge, |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.142 | Who they shall be that straight shall post to Ludlow. | Who they shall be that strait shall poste to London . |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.72 | O'er courtiers' knees, that dream on curtsies straight; | On Courtiers knees, that dreame on Cursies strait: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.73 | O'er lawyers' fingers, who straight dream on fees; | ore Lawyers fingers, who strait dreamt on Fees, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.74 | O'er ladies' lips, who straight on kisses dream, | ore Ladies lips, who strait on kisses dreame, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.2.48 | Dost thou love pictures? We will fetch thee straight | Dost thou loue pictures? we wil fetch thee strait |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.100 | His means most short, his creditors most strait. | His meanes most short, his Creditors most straite: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.104 | Should straight fall mad, or else die suddenly. | Should straite fall mad, or else die suddenly. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.106 | But straight they told me they would bind me here | But strait they told me they would binde me heere, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.154 | For honour travels in a strait so narrow, | For honour trauels in a straight so narrow, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.ii.104.1 | But it straight starts you. | But it strait starts you. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.86.1 | Is not this piece too strait? | Is not this peece too streight? |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.351 | Your lack of love or bounty, you were straited | Your lacke of loue, or bounty, you were straited |