| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.iv.4 | This is the news: he fishes, drinks, and wastes | This is the newes: He fishes, drinkes, and wastes |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.i.16 | And they have earned the waste. Poor Antony! | And they haue earn'd the waste. Poore Anthony. |
| As You Like It | AYL II.iv.92 | And willingly could waste my time in it. | and willingly could / Waste my time in it. |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.135 | And we will nothing waste till you return. | And we will nothing waste till you returne. |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.313 | wasteful learning, the other knowing no burden of | wasteful Learning; the other knowing no burthen of |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.i.90 | From my poor cheek? Then he hath wasted it. | From my poore cheeke? then he hath wasted it. |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.iv.20 | That they will waste their time upon our note, | That they will waste their time vpon our note, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.52 | By inches waste you. In which time, she purposed | By inches waste you. In which time, she purpos'd |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.198 | In the dead waste and middle of the night | In the dead wast and middle of the night |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.89 | Were nothing but to waste night, day, and time. | Were nothing but to waste Night, Day, and Time. |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.231 | Then you live about her waist, or in the middle | Then you liue about her waste, or in the middle |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.323 | Hal, I was not an eagle's talon in the waist – I could have | (Hal) I was not an Eagles Talent in the Waste, I could haue |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.395 | the more it is wasted the sooner it wears. That thou art my | the more it is wasted, the sooner it weares. Thou art my |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.142 | your waste is great. | your wast great. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.144 | were greater and my waist slenderer. | were greater, and my waste slenderer. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.173 | wasted in giving reckonings; all the other gifts appertinent | wasted in giuing Recknings: all the other gifts appertinent |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.iii.62 | And waste for churlish winter's tyranny. | And waste, for churlish Winters tyranny. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.213 | Besides, the King hath wasted all his rods | Besides, the King hath wasted all his Rods, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.215 | May waste the memory of the former days. | May waste the memory of the former dayes. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.216 | More would I, but my lungs are wasted so | More would I, but my Lungs are wasted so, |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.28 | That makes such waste in brief mortality. | That makes such waste in briefe mortalitie. |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.284 | Shall stand sore charged for the wasteful vengeance | Shall stand sore charged, for the wastefull vengeance |
| Henry V | H5 III.i.14 | Swilled with the wild and wasteful ocean. | Swill'd with the wild and wastfull Ocean. |
| Henry V | H5 III.iii.18 | Enlinked to waste and desolation? | Enlynckt to wast and desolation? |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iii.40 | Wasted our country, slain our citizens, | Wasted our Countrey, slaine our Citizens, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.iii.20 | Who now is girdled with a waist of iron | Who now is girdled with a waste of Iron, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.125 | Would he were wasted, marrow, bones, and all, | Would he were wasted, Marrow, Bones, and all, |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.145 | In seeming to augment it wastes it? Be advised. | In seeming to augment it, wasts it: be aduis'd; |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.i.5 | To waste these times. Good hour of night, Sir Thomas! | To waste these times. Good houre of night Sir Thomas: |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.59 | Sir, March is wasted fifteen days. | Sir, March is wasted fifteene dayes. |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.198 | So shall he waste his means, weary his soldiers, | So shall he waste his meanes, weary his Souldiers, |
| King Edward III | E3 I.ii.159 | From weather's waste the undergarnished pride. | From weathers West, the vnder garnisht pride: |
| King Edward III | E3 II.ii.117 | Play, spend, give, riot, waste, do what thou wilt, | Play, spend, giue, ryot, wast, do what thou wilt, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.21 | And others wasted, leaving at our heels | And others wasted, leauing at our heeles, |
| King John | KJ II.i.217 | That as a waist doth girdle you about, | That as a waste doth girdle you about |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.16 | Is wasteful and ridiculous excess. | Is wastefull, and ridiculous excesse. |
| King Lear | KL II.i.99 | To have th' expense and waste of his revenues. | To haue th'expence and wast of his Reuenues: |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.124 | Down from the waist they are centaurs, | Downe from the waste they are Centaures, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.i.50 | An your waist, mistress, were as slender as my wit, | And your waste Mistris, were as slender as my wit, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.i.51 | One o' these maids' girdles for your waist should be fit. | One a these Maides girdles for your waste should be fit. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.183 | A gait, a state, a brow, a breast, a waist, | a gate, a state, a brow, a brest, a waste, |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.111 | For ruin's wasteful entrance; there the murderers, | For Ruines wastfull entrance: there the Murtherers, |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.i.30 | Are not thine own so proper as to waste | Are not thine owne so proper, as to waste |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.72.1 | And you but waste your words. | And you but waste your words. |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.170 | Than woman's lightness? Having waste ground enough, | Then womans lightnesse? hauing waste ground enough, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.i.157 | Than if you had made waste of all I have. | Then if you had made waste of all I haue: |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.v.48 | To one that I would have him help to waste | To one that I would haue him helpe to waste |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.iv.12 | That do converse and waste the time together, | That do conuerse and waste the time together, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.iv.54 | Which trades to Venice. Waste no time in words | Which trades to Venice; waste no time in words, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iii.38 | waist two yards about. But I am now about no waste – | waste two yards about: but I am now about no waste: |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.ii.200 | waste, attempt us again. | waste, attempt vs againe. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.57 | A merrier hour was never wasted there. | A merrier houre was neuer wasted there. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.168 | Never did mockers waste more idle breath. | Neuer did mockers wast more idle breth. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.365 | Now the wasted brands do glow | Now the wasted brands doe glow, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.i.78 | Consume away in sighs, waste inwardly. | Consume away in sighes, waste inwardly: |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.18 | With candle-wasters – bring him yet to me, | With candle-wasters: bring him yet to me, |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.84 | Till now some nine moons wasted, they have used | Till now, some nine Moones wasted, they haue vs'd |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.185 | With nought but truth. I have wasted myself | With naught but truth: I haue wasted my selfe |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.241 | the night grows to waste. About it! | the night growes to wast. About it. |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.I.16 | Waste it for you like taper-light. | Waste it for you, like Taper light. |
| Pericles | Per II.iii.93 | And waste the time which looks for other revels. | And waste the time which lookes for other reuels; |
| Pericles | Per IV.iv.1 | Thus time we waste, and long leagues make short, | Thus time we waste, & long leagues make short, |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.221 | My oil-dried lamp and time-bewasted light | My oyle-dride Lampe, and time-bewasted light |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.103 | The waste is no whit lesser than thy land. | The waste is no whit lesser then thy Land: |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.252 | Wars hath not wasted it; for warred he hath not, | Wars hath not wasted it, for war'd he hath not. |
| Richard II | R2 III.iv.55 | Hath seized the wasteful King. O, what pity is it | hath seiz'd the wastefull King. / Oh, what pitty is it, |
| Richard II | R2 III.iv.66 | Which waste of idle hours hath quite thrown down. | Which waste and idle houres, hath quite thrown downe. |
| Richard II | R2 V.v.49 | I wasted time, and now doth time waste me; | I wasted Time, and now doth Time waste me: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.218 | She hath; and in that sparing makes huge waste. | She hath, and in that sparing make huge wast? |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.45 | We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day. | We wast our lights in vaine, lights, lights, by day; |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iii.67 | How much salt water thrown away in waste | How much salt water throwne away in wast, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.197 | Now in the waist, the deck, in every cabin | Now in the Waste, the Decke, in euery Cabyn, |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.303 | For this one night; which, part of it, I'll waste | For this one night, which part of it, Ile waste |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.i.4 | Of raging waste? It cannot hold, it will not. | Of raging waste? It cannot hold, it will not. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.ii.167 | I have retired me to a wasteful cock | I haue retyr'd me to a wastefull cocke, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.i.23 | Upon the wasted building, suddenly | Vpon the wasted building, suddainely |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.30 | And buckle in a waist most fathomless | And buckle in a waste most fathomlesse, |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.76 | Besides, you waste the treasure of your time | Besides you waste the treasure of your time, |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.i.127 | The clock upbraids me with the waste of time. | The clocke vpbraides me with the waste of time: |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.i.51 | But wherefore waste I time to counsel thee | But wherefore waste I time to counsaile thee |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.iv.32 | Rather than niggard, waste; their lives concern us | Rather then niggard wast, their lives concerne us, |