| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.94 | A strain of rareness: and I grieve myself | A straine of Rarenesse: and I greeue my selfe, |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.24.2 | O noble strain! | Oh noble straine! |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.i.75.2 | You strain too far. | You strayne too farre. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.171 | Or swell my thoughts to any strain of pride, | Or swell my Thoughts, to any straine of Pride, |
| Henry V | H5 II.iv.51 | And he is bred out of that bloody strain | And he is bred out of that bloodie straine, |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.255 | And touch thy instrument a strain or two? | And touch thy Instrument a straine or two. |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.i.59 | O, if thou wert the noblest of thy strain, | O if thou wer't the Noblest of thy Straine, |
| King John | KJ III.iii.46 | And strain their cheeks to idle merriment, | And straine their cheekes to idle merriment, |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.41 | Sir, you have showed today your valiant strain, | Sir, you haue shew'd to day your valiant straine |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.i.82 | unless he know some strain in me that I know not | vnlesse hee know some straine in mee, that I know not |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iii.174 | of the same strain were in the same distress. | of the same straine, were in the same distresse. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.351 | noble strain, of approved valour and confirmed honesty. | noble straine, of approued valour, and confirm'd honesty, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.250 | For to strange sores strangely they strain the cure. | For to strange sores, strangely they straine the cure, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.12 | And let it answer every strain for strain, | And let it answere euery straine for straine, |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.216 | I am to pray you, not to strain my speech | I am to pray you, not to straine my speech |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.248 | Note if your lady strain his entertainment | Note if your Lady straine his Encertainment |
| Pericles | Per IV.iii.24 | To think of what a noble strain you are, | to thinke of what a noble straine you are, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.50 | and in such a case as mine a man may strain courtesy. | and in such a case as mine, a man may straine curtesie. |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.386 | The strain of strutting chanticleer | the straine of strutting Chanticlere |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.147 | To build his fortune I will strain a little, | To build his Fortune, I will straine a little, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.254 | And all this courtesy! The strain of man's bred out | and all this Curtesie. The straine of mans bred out |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.143.4 | strain or two to the hautboys, and cease | straine or two to the Hoboyes, and cease. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.214 | Blow off thy cap. Praise his most vicious strain | Blow off thy Cap: praise his most vicious straine, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.225 | And strain what other means is left unto us | And straine what other meanes is left vnto vs |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.326 | And in the publication make no strain | And in the publication make no straine, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.155 | That so degenerate a strain as this | That so degenerate a straine as this, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.112 | I do not strain at the position – | I doe not straine it at the position, |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.i.4 | That strain again! It had a dying fall. | That straine agen, it had a dying fall: |