| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.i.4 | The gift doth stretch itself as 'tis received, | The guift doth stretch it selfe as 'tis receiu'd, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.i.46 | There's not a minute of our lives should stretch | There's not a minute of our liues should stretch |
| As You Like It | AYL II.i.37 | That their discharge did stretch his leathern coat | That their discharge did stretch his leatherne coat |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.ii.49 | Than we to stretch it out. (To the Tribunes) Masters o'th' people, | Then we to stretch it out. Masters a'th' People, |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.ii.4 | That the precipitation might down stretch | That the precipitation might downe stretch |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.i.50 | Which swelled so much that it did almost stretch | Which swell'd so much, that it did almost stretch |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.55 | stretch, and where it would not I have used my credit. | stretch, and where it would not, I haue vs'd my credit. |
| Henry V | H5 II.ii.55 | Shall not be winked at, how shall we stretch our eye | Shall not be wink'd at, how shall we stretch our eye |
| Henry V | H5 III.i.15 | Now set the teeth, and stretch the nostril wide, | Now set the Teeth, and stretch the Nosthrill wide, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iii.33.1 | If you might please to stretch it. | If you might please to stretch it. |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.159 | If he improve them, may well stretch so far | If he improue them, may well stretch so farre |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.102 | That stretch their duties nicely. | That stretch their duties nicely. |
| King Lear | KL IV.ii.23 | Would stretch thy spirits up into the air. | Would stretch thy Spirits vp into the ayre: |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.313.1 | Stretch him out longer. | Stretch him out longer. |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.i.116 | What, will the line stretch out to the crack of doom? | What will the Line stretch out to'th' cracke of Doome? |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.312 | Dare no more stretch this finger of mine than he | No more stretch this finger of mine, then he |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.84 | I stretch it out for that word ‘ broad ’, which, added | I stretch it out for that word, broad, which added |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.10 | Come, stretch thy chest, and let thy eyes spout blood; | Come, stretch thy chest, and let thy eyes spout bloud: |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.i.87 | When you shall stretch yourself, and say but ‘ Arcite, | When you shall stretch your selfe, and say but Arcite |