| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| King Lear | KL IV.vii.52 | Where have I been? Where am I? Fair daylight? | Where haue I bin? / Where am I? Faire day light? |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.124 | This night methinks is but the daylight sick, | This night methinkes is but the daylight sicke, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.i.50 | We burn daylight. Here, read, read. | Wee burne day-light: heere, read, read: |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.427 | If ever I thy face by daylight see. | If euer I thy face by day-light see. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.433 | That I may back to Athens by daylight | That I may backe to Athens by day-light, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.74 | by daylight. | by daylight. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.139 | Shuts up his windows, locks fair daylight out | Shuts vp his windowes, lockes faire day-light out, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.43 | Up to the ears. Come, we burn daylight, ho! | Vp to the eares, come we burne day-light ho. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.20 | As daylight doth a lamp. Her eyes in heaven | As day-light doth a Lampe, her eye in heauen, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.12 | Yond light is not daylight; I know it, I. | Yond light is not daylight, I know it I: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.47 | daylight! An 'twere dark, you'd close sooner. (To | day light? and 'twere darke you'ld close sooner: |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.154 | Daylight and champain discovers not more! This is | daylight and champian discouers not more: This is |