| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.289 | Where noble fellows strike. Wars is no strife | Where noble fellowes strike: Warres is no strife |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.335 | With strife to please you, day exceeding day. | With strife to please you, day exceeding day: |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.84 | Be nothing of our strife; if we contend, | Be nothing of our strife: if we contend |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.ii.28 | When the sweet breath of flattery conquers strife. | When the sweet breath of flatterie conquers strife. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.232 | Both here and hence pursue me lasting strife, | Both heere, and hence, pursue me lasting strife, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iii.70 | Naught rests for me in this tumultuous strife | Naught rests for me, in this tumultuous strife, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.88 | Pray, uncle Gloucester, mitigate this strife. | Pray' Vnckle Gloster mittigate this strife. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.123 | Confirm it so? Confounded be your strife, | Confirme it so? Confounded be your strife, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.151 | Let me be umpire in this doubtful strife. | Let me be Vmper in this doubtfull strife: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.iv.39 | But dies betrayed to fortune by your strife. | But dies betraid to fortune by your strife. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.i.13 | That such immanity and bloody strife | That such immanity and bloody strife |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.v.63 | An age of discord and continual strife? | An Age of discord and continuall strife, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.56 | I pray, my lords, let me compound this strife. | I pray my Lords let me compound this strife. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.ii.4 | Why, how now, sons and brother! At a strife? | Why how now Sonnes, and Brother, at a strife? |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.iii.11 | Either there is a civil strife in heaven, | Eyther there is a Ciuill strife in Heauen, |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.263 | Domestic fury and fierce civil strife | Domesticke Fury, and fierce Ciuill strife, |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.198 | These prisoners, chief occasion of our strife. | These prisoners, chiefe occasion of our strife. |
| King John | KJ II.i.63 | An Ate, stirring him to blood and strife; | An Ace stirring him to bloud and strife, |
| King Lear | KL I.i.44 | Our daughters' several dowers, that future strife | Our daughters seuerall Dowers, that future strife |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.43 | That were the opposites of this day's strife; | Who were the opposites of this dayes strife: |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.iii.20 | If thou keep promise, I shall end this strife, | If thou keepe promise I shall end this strife, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.221 | For if I should as lion come in strife | For if I should as Lion come in strife |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.251 | To have their balmy slumbers waked with strife. | To haue their Balmy slumbers wak'd with strife. |
| Richard II | R2 V.vi.27 | So as thou livest in peace, die free from strife; | So as thou liu'st in peace, dye free from strife: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.152 | To cease thy strife and leave me to my grief. | To cease thy strife, and leaue me to my griefe, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.i.178 | Some twenty of them fought in this black strife, | Some twenty of them fought in this blacke strife, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.334 | Content you, gentlemen, I will compound this strife. | Content you gentlemen, I wil cõpound this strife |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.i.21 | And, to cut off all strife, here sit we down. | And to cut off all strife: heere sit we downe, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.38 | It tutors nature. Artificial strife | It Tutors Nature, Artificiall strife |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.191 | Now stay your strife; what shall be is dispatched. | Now stay you strife, what shall be, is dispatcht: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.93 | Half stints their strife before their strokes begin. | Halfe stints their strife, before their strokes begin. |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.iv.41 | To woo your lady. (Aside) Yet, a barful strife! | To woe your Lady: yet a barrefull strife, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.ii.26.1 | Than strife or war could be. | Then strife, or war could be. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.3 | And end their strife. Two such young handsome men | And end their strife: Two such yong hansom men |