| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.v.3 | (yawning) | |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.ii.11 | In congregations, to yawn, be still and wonder, | In Congregations, to yawne, be still, and wonder, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.396 | When churchyards yawn, and hell itself breathes out | When Churchyards yawne, and Hell it selfe breaths out |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.114 | th' arithmetic of memory, and yet but yaw neither in | |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.204 | The lazy yawning drone. I this infer, | The lazie yawning Drone: I this inferre, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.vi.14 | That bloodily did yawn upon his face. | That bloodily did yawne vpon his face. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.i.73 | Now will I dam up this thy yawning mouth | Now will I dam vp this thy yawning mouth, |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.ii.18 | And graves have yawned and yielded up their dead; | And Graues haue yawn'd, and yeelded vp their dead; |
| Macbeth | Mac III.ii.43 | Hath rung night's yawning peal, there shall be done | Hath rung Nights yawning Peale, / There shall be done |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.iii.19 | Graves yawn and yield your dead, | Graues yawne and yeelde your dead, |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.102.1 | Should yawn at alteration. | Did yawne at Alteration. |