| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.v.66.1 | Smarting in lingering pickle! | Smarting in lingring pickle. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.156 | To feed contention in a lingering act; | To feede Contention in a ling'ring Act: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.74 | One would have lingering wars with little cost; | One would haue lingring Warres, with little cost; |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.iv.19 | And, in advantage lingering, looks for rescue, | And in aduantage lingring lookes for rescue, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.247 | And torture him with grievous lingering death. | And torture him with grieuous lingring death. |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.iv.167 | To lingering sufferance. Answer me tomorrow, | To lingring sufferance: Answer me to morrow, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.268 | An age of poverty, from which lingering penance | An age of pouerty. From which lingring penance |
| The Tempest | Tem III.iii.78 | Lingering perdition – worse than any death | Lingring perdition (worse then any death |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.i.90.1 | Exeunt Sir Toby and Maria, Sir Andrew lingering before | |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.320 | But with a lingering dram that should not work | But with a lingring Dram, that should not worke |