| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.i.36 | The higher our opinion, that our stirring | The higher our Opinion, that our stirring |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.i.99 | Now in the stirring passage of the day, | Now in the stirring passage of the day, |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.v.225 | Why, then we shall have a stirring | Why then wee shall haue a stirring |
| Hamlet | Ham I.i.10.2 | Not a mouse stirring. | Not a Mouse stirring. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.ii.98 | arrant cowards there's no equity stirring. There's no | arrand Cowards, there's no equity stirring. There's no |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.v.15 | For bearing arms, for stirring up my subjects, | For bearing Armes, for stirring vp my Subiects, |
| King John | KJ II.i.63 | An Ate, stirring him to blood and strife; | An Ace stirring him to bloud and strife, |
| King John | KJ V.i.48 | Be stirring as the time; be fire with fire; | Be stirring as the time, be fire with fire, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.16 | Of such a merry, nimble, stirring spirit, | of such a merrie nimble stirring spirit, |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.39 | Is thy master stirring? | Is thy Master stirring? |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.42.1 | Is the King stirring, worthy thane? | Is the King stirring, worthy Thane? |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.i.86 | no revenge! Nor no ill luck stirring but what lights | no reuenge, nor no ill luck stirring but what lights |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.75 | This flower's force in stirring love. | This flowers force in stirring loue. |
| Othello | Oth III.i.25 | General's wife be stirring, tell her there's one Cassio | Generall be stirring, tell her, there's one Cassio |
| Othello | Oth III.i.27 | She is stirring, sir. If she will stir hither, I shall | She is stirring sir: if she will stirre hither, I shall |
| Richard III | R3 III.ii.36 | Good morrow, Catesby; you are early stirring. | Good morrow Catesby, you are early stirring: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.i.4 | For now, these hot days, is the mad blood stirring. | for now these / hot dayes, is the mad blood stirring. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.51 | E'en so, Hector was stirring early. | E'ene so; Hector was stirring early. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.i.118 | wit stirring, and leave the faction of fools. | wit stirring, and leaue the faction of fooles. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.136 | A stirring dwarf we do allowance give | A stirring Dwarfe, we doe allowance giue, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.29 | No stirring in him, no alacrity, | No stirring in him, no alacrity, |