| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.ii.48 | Spread o'er the silver waves thy golden hairs | Spread ore the siluer waues thy golden haires; |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.vi.74 | Wave thus to express his disposition, | Waue thus to expresse his disposition, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.vi.76.1 | They all shout and wave their swords, take him up in | They all shout and waue their swords, take him vp in |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.ii.16 | love or no, he waved indifferently 'twixt doing them | loue, or no, hee waued indifferently, 'twixt doing them |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.8.1 | Their banners wave again. | Their Banners waue againe. |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.iv.6.1 | Then waved his handkerchief? | Then wau'd his Handkerchiefe? |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.150 | Which he did wave against my throat, I have ta'en | Which he did waue against my throat, I haue tane |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iii.48 | O'er-borne i'th' former wave, ten chased by one, | Ore-borne i'th'former waue, ten chac'd by one, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.481 | A Roman, and a British ensign wave | A Roman, and a Brittish Ensigne waue |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iv.61 | It waves you to a more removed ground. | It wafts you to a more remoued ground: |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iv.68 | It waves me forth again. I'll follow it. | It waues me forth againe; Ile follow it. |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iv.78.2 | It waves me still. – | It wafts me still: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 induction.19 | The still-discordant wavering multitude, | The still discordant, wauering Multitude, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.138 | In France, amongst a fickle, wavering nation; | In France, amongst a fickle wauering Nation: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.21 | And spend her strength with overmatching waves. | And spend her strength with ouer-matching Waues. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.ii.173 | Sound trumpets! Let our bloody colours wave! | Sound Trumpets, let our bloody Colours waue, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.vi.36 | Command an argosy to stem the waves. | Command an Argosie to stemme the Waues. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.iv.24 | As good to chide the waves as speak them fair. | As good to chide the Waues, as speake them faire. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.iv.36 | More than with ruthless waves, with sands and rocks. | More then with ruthlesse Waues, with Sands and Rocks. |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.114 | The old Anchises bear, so from the waves of Tiber | The old Anchyses beare) so, from the waues of Tyber |
| King Edward III | E3 II.ii.92 | Away, loose silks of wavering vanity! | A way loose silkes or wauering vanitie, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.60 | Is either to be swallowed of the waves, | Is either to be swallowed of the waues, |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.71 | Horns welked and waved like the enridged sea. | Hornes wealk'd, and waued like the enraged Sea: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.i.55 | Now, by the salt wave of the Mediterraneum, a | Now by the salt waue of the mediteranium, a |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.i.52 | Against the churches; though the yesty waves | Against the Churches: Though the yesty Waues |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.130 | Thou almost mak'st me waver in my faith, | Thou almost mak'st me wauer in my faith; |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.II.34 | By waves from coast to coast is tossed. | By Waues, from coast to coast is tost: |
| Pericles | Per IV.i.60 | Never was waves nor wind more violent, | neuer was waues nor winde more violent, |
| Richard II | R2 II.ii.128 | And that is the wavering commons; for their love | And that's the wauering Commons, for their loue |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iii.85 | But come, young waverer, come, go with me. | But come young wauerer, come goe with me, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.205 | Seem to besiege, and make his bold waves tremble, | Seeme to besiege, and make his bold waues tremble, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.378 | The wild waves whist, | the wilde waues whist: |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.120 | 'Bove the contentious waves he kept, and oared | 'Boue the contentious waues he kept, and oared |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.122 | To th' shore, that o'er his wave-worn basis bowed, | To th' shore; that ore his waue-worne basis bowed |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.95 | Who marks the waxing tide grow wave by wave, | Who markes the waxing tide, / Grow waue by waue, |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.ii.16 | I saw him hold acquaintance with the waves | I saw him hold acquaintance with the waues, |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iv.34 | More longing, wavering, sooner lost and worn, | More longing, wauering, sooner lost and worne, |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.375 | Tempests are kind, and salt waves fresh in love! | Tempests are kinde, and salt waues fresh in loue. |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.226 | Whom the blind waves and surges have devoured. | Whom the blinde waues and surges haue deuour'd: |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.141 | A wave o'th' sea, that you might ever do | A waue o'th Sea, that you might euer do |