| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xiv.47 | Lie down, and stray no farther. Now all labour | Lye downe and stray no farther. Now all labour |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.51 | Strayed his affection in unlawful love, | Stray'd his affection in vnlawfull loue, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.i.75.2 | You strain too far. | You strayne too farre. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.ii.120 | Strike up our drums, pursue the scattered stray; | Strike vp our Drummes, pursue the scatter'd stray, |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.160 | But taken and impounded as a stray | But taken and impounded as a Stray, |
| Henry V | H5 III.i.32 | Straining upon the start. The game's afoot! | Straying vpon the Start. The Game's afoot: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iii.61 | Hath here distrained the Tower to his use. | Hath here distrayn'd the Tower to his vse. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.211 | And binds the wretch, and beats it when it strays, | And binds the Wretch, and beats it when it strayes, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.x.24 | for a stray, for entering his fee-simple without leave. | for a stray, for entering his Fee-simple without leaue. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.143 | Suppose, my lords, he did it unconstrained, | Suppose, my Lords, he did it vnconstrayn'd, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.176 | Seeking a way and straying from the way, | Seeking a way, and straying from the way, |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iii.64 | Win straying souls with modesty again; | Win straying Soules with modesty againe, |
| King Edward III | E3 I.i.102 | Is to surrender ere he be constrained. | Is to surrender ere he be constraynd. |
| King Edward III | E3 II.ii.76 | Modelled in his, corrects my strayed desire, | Modeld in his, corrects my straid desire, |
| King Lear | KL I.i.209 | I would not from your love make such a stray | I would not from your loue make such a stray, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.758 | Full of straying shapes, of habits, and of forms, | Full of straying shapes, of habits, and of formes |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.vii.35 | What if I strayed no farther, but chose here? | What if I strai'd no farther, but chose here? |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.30 | Be here at Belmont. She doth stray about | Be heere at Belmont, she doth stray about |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.358 | And lead these testy rivals so astray | And lead these testie Riuals so astray, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.392 | Through this house each fairy stray. | Through this house each Fairy stray. |
| Pericles | Per I.i.105 | And if Jove stray, who dares say Jove doth ill? | And if Ioue stray, who dares say, Ioue doth ill: |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.206 | Farewell, my liege. Now no way can I stray; | Farewell (my Liege) now no way can I stray, |
| Richard II | R2 II.iii.130 | My father's goods are all distrained and sold, | My Fathers goods are all distraynd, and sold, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.418.1 | And strays about to find 'em. | And strayes about to finde 'em. |
| The Tempest | Tem III.iii.10 | Whom thus we stray to find, and the sea mocks | Whom thus we stray to finde, and the Sea mocks |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.88 | O, thus I found her, straying in the park, | Oh thus I found her straying in the Parke, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.i.20 | Renowned Lucius, from our troops I strayed | Renowned Lucius, from our troups I straid, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.v.24 | And there the strawy Greeks, ripe for his edge, | And there the straying Greekes, ripe for his edge, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.i.74 | Indeed, a sheep doth very often stray, | Indeede a Sheepe doth very often stray, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.i.103 | Nay, in that you are astray; 'twere best pound | Nay, in that you are astray: 'twere best pound |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.vii.31 | And so by many winding nooks he strays, | And so by many winding nookes he straies |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.v.15 | This world's a city full of straying streets, | This world's a Citty full of straying Streetes, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.244 | Which hoxes honesty behind, restraining | Which hoxes honestie behind, restrayning |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.49 | Have strained t' appear thus: if one jot beyond | Haue strayn'd t' appeare thus; if one iot beyond |