| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xv.26 | Edge, sting, or operation, I am safe. | Edge, sting, or operation. I am safe: |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.66 | As sensual as the brutish sting itself, | As sensuall as the brutish sting it selfe, |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.189 | Thy sting is not so sharp | thy sting is not so sharpe, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.39 | The serpent that did sting thy father's life | The Serpent that did sting thy Fathers life, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.88 | To prick and sting her. Fare thee well at once. | To pricke and sting her. Fare thee well at once; |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.229 | With shining checkered slough, doth sting a child | With shining checker'd slough doth sting a Child, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.344 | Who, cherished in your breasts, will sting your hearts. | Who cherisht in your breasts, will sting your hearts. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.47 | Their touch affrights me as a serpent's sting. | Their touch affrights me as a Serpents sting. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.127 | And care not who they sting in his revenge. | And care not who they sting in his reuenge. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.267 | With whose envenomed and fatal sting, | With whose inuenomed and fatall sting, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.ii.15 | Who 'scapes the lurking serpent's mortal sting? | Who scapes the lurking Serpents mortall sting? |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.vi.94 | For though they cannot greatly sting to hurt, | For though they cannot greatly sting to hurt, |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.56 | Will make this sting the sooner. Cardinal Campeius | Will make this sting the sooner. Cardinall Campeius, |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.16 | And then, I grant, we put a sting in him | And then I graunt we put a Sting in him, |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.i.38 | And very wisely threat before you sting. | And very wisely threat before you sting. |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.100 | Sting with their tongues; we have remorseless swords, | Sting with theyr tongues; we haue remorseles swordes, |
| King Lear | KL IV.iii.45 | To his dog-hearted daughters – these things sting | |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.i.16 | Adder's fork, and blindworm's sting, | Adders Forke, and Blinde-wormes Sting, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.69 | What, wouldst thou have a serpent sting thee twice? | What wouldst thou haue a Serpent sting thee twice? |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.131 | Snakes in my heart-blood warmed, that sting my heart; | Snakes in my heart blood warm'd, that sting my heart, |
| Richard II | R2 V.iii.57 | A serpent that will sting thee to the heart. | A Serpent, that will sting thee to the heart. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.210 | If I be waspish, best beware my sting. | If I be waspish, best beware my sting. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.213 | Who knows not where a wasp does wear his sting? | Who knowes not where a Waspe does weare his sting? |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.132 | Let not this wasp outlive, us both to sting. | Let not this Waspe out-liue vs both to sting. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.x.43 | Till he hath lost his honey and his sting; | Till he hath lost his hony, and his sting. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.86 | Whose sting is sharper than the sword's; and will not – | Whose sting is sharper then the Swords; and will not |