| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.i.45 | Nay, an you be so tardy come no more in my | Nay, and you be so tardie, come no more in my |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.i.44 | Say, is your tardy master now at hand? | Say, is your tardie master now at hand? |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.25 | tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot | tardie off, though it make the vnskilfull laugh, cannot |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.107 | Do you not come your tardy son to chide, | Do you not come your tardy Sonne to chide, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iii.28 | These tardy tricks of yours will, on my life, | These tardie Tricks of yours will (on my life) |
| Henry V | H5 IV.chorus.20 | And chide the cripple tardy-gaited night | And chide the creeple-tardy-gated Night, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.223 | That thou thyself was born in bastardy; | That thou thy selfe wast borne in Bastardie; |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.iv.7.2 | O, my lord, you're tardy. | O my Lord, y'are tardy; |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.296 | However he puts on this tardy form. | How-euer he puts on this tardie forme: |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.138 | Is guilty of a several bastardy, | Is guilty of a seuerall Bastardie, |
| King John | KJ I.i.74 | But once he slandered me with bastardy. | But once he slanderd me with bastardy: |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.10 | With ‘ base ’? with ‘ baseness ’? ‘ bastardy ’? ‘ base, base ’? | With Base? With basenes Barstadie? Base, Base? |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.22 | Whose manners still our tardy-apish nation | Whose manners still our tardie apish Nation |
| Richard III | R3 II.i.91 | Some tardy cripple bare the countermand, | Some tardie Cripple bare the Countermand, |
| Richard III | R3 III.v.74 | Infer the bastardy of Edward's children. | Inferre the Bastardie of Edwards Children: |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.4 | Touched you the bastardy of Edward's children? | Toucht you the Bastardie of Edwards Children? |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.9 | His tyranny for trifles; his own bastardy, | His Tyrannie for Trifles, his owne Bastardie, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.i.51 | Be not ta'en tardy by unwise delay. | Be not ta'ne tardie by vnwise delay. |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.226 | That you have ta'en a tardy sluggard here. | That you haue tane a tardie sluggard heere? |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.vi.15 | Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow. | Too swift arriues as tardie as too slow. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.i.48 | And by his side his fruit of bastardy. | And by his side his Fruite of Bastardie. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.iv.140 | The prince must think me tardy and remiss, | The Prince must thinke me tardy and remisse, |