| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.110 | Ay. You have some stain of soldier in you: let me | I: you haue some staine of souldier in you: Let mee |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.i.120 | So stain our judgement or corrupt our hope, | So staine our iudgement, or corrupt our hope, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.280 | Which should sustain the bound and high curvet | Which should sustaine the bound and high curuet |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.vii.7.1 | In any staining act. | In any staining act. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.iii.17.1 | Will not sustain it. | Will not sustaine it. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.iv.27 | Shall stain your brother. Make your soonest haste; | Shall staine your Brother, make your soonest hast, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xi.45 | Well then, sustain me. O! | Well then, sustaine me: Oh. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.i.25 | I robbed his wound of it. Behold it stained | I robb'd his wound of it: behold it stain'd |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.98.1 | This handkercher was stained. | This handkercher was stain'd. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.145 | And tear the stained skin off my harlot brow, | And teare the stain'd skin of my Harlot brow, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.155 | I live unstained, thou undishonoured. | I liue distain'd, thou vndishonoured. |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.x.18 | With only suffering stain by him; for him | With onely suff'ring staine by him: for him |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.vi.113 | Stain all your edges on me. ‘Boy'! False hound! | Staine all your edges on me. Boy, false Hound: |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.v.112 | and I doubt not you sustain what you're | and I doubt not you sustaine what y'are |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.139.1 | This stain upon her? | This staine vpon her? |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.140 | Another stain, as big as hell can hold, | Another staine, as bigge as Hell can hold, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iii.29 | Then weigh what loss your honour may sustain | Then weigh what losse your Honour may sustaine, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.iv.57 | That have a father killed, a mother stained, | |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.i.64 | Stained with the variation of each soil | Strain'd with the variation of each soyle, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.i.84 | See riot and dishonour stain the brow | See Ryot and Dishonor staine the brow |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.106 | Bloodstained with these valiant combatants. | Blood-stained with these Valiant Combatants. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.181 | Loseth men's hearts and leaves behind a stain | Loseth mens hearts, and leaues behinde a stayne |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.ii.136 | And stain my favours in a bloody mask, | And staine my fauours in a bloody Maske: |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.ii.93 | A sword whose temper I intend to stain | a Sword, / Whose worthy temper I intend to staine |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.iv.12 | Where stained nobility lies trodden on, | Where stain'd Nobility lyes troden on, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.ii.114 | Th' unstained sword that you have used to bear, | Th' vnstained Sword that you haue vs'd to beare: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.v.24 | But to stand stained with travel, and sweating | But to stand stained with Trauaile, and sweating |
| Henry V | H5 II.iii.2 | to Staines. | to Staines. |
| Henry V | H5 IV.ii.19 | To give each naked curtle-axe a stain | To giue each naked Curtleax a stayne, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.ii.78 | Pricked on by public wrongs sustained in France, | Prickt on by publike Wrongs sustain'd in France, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.iii.57 | And wash away thy country's stained spots. | And wash away thy Countries stayned Spots. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.45 | Stain to thy countrymen, thou hearest thy doom. | Staine to thy Countrymen, thou hear'st thy doom: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.v.26 | Flight cannot stain the honour you have won; | Flight cannot stayne the Honor you haue wonne, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.v.42 | Thy father's charge shall clear thee from that stain. | Thy Fathers charge shal cleare thee from yt staine. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iv.44 | Stained with the guiltless blood of innocents, | Stain'd with the guiltlesse blood of Innocents, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.ii.65 | Till I be crowned, and that my sword be stained | till I be Crown'd, / And that my Sword be stayn'd |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.iv.16 | My tear-stained eyes to see her miseries. | My teare-stayn'd eyes, to see her Miseries. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.259 | Before his chaps be stained with crimson blood, | Before his Chaps be stayn'd with Crimson blood, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.i.11 | Or with their blood stain this discoloured shore. | Or with their blood staine this discoloured shore. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.79 | Look, York, I stained this napkin with the blood | Looke Yorke, I stayn'd this Napkin with the blood |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.153 | Would not have touched, would not have stained with blood; | would not haue toucht, / Would not haue stayn'd with blood: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.iii.21 | That stained their fetlocks in his smoking blood, | That stain'd their Fetlockes in his smoaking blood, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.39 | To do them good I would sustain some harm. | To doe them good, I would sustayne some harme. |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.5 | But that you shall sustain moe new disgraces | But that you shall sustaine moe new disgraces, |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.132 | Such creatures as men doubt; but do not stain | Such Creatures as men doubt; but do not staine |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.ii.89 | For tinctures, stains, relics, and cognizance. | For Tinctures, Staines, Reliques, and Cognisance. |
| King Edward III | E3 I.ii.100 | If that her self were by to stain herself, | If that her selfe were by to staine herselfe, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.392 | The King that would distain thee will advance thee. | The king that would distaine thee, will aduance thee: |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.416 | Hath he no means to stain my honest blood, | Hath he no meanes to stayne my honest blood, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.ii.185 | Shall stain thy earth with that which thou wouldst stain, | Shall staine thy earth, with that which thou would staine: |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iv.98 | For I will stain my horse quite o'er with blood | For I will staine my horse quite ore with bloud, |
| King John | KJ II.i.16 | But with a heart full of unstained love. | But with a heart full of vnstained loue, |
| King John | KJ II.i.45 | Lest unadvised you stain your swords with blood. | Lest vnaduis'd you staine your swords with bloud, |
| King John | KJ II.i.114 | To look into the blots and stains of right. | To looke into the blots and staines of right, |
| King John | KJ II.i.357 | Cry havoc, Kings! Back to the stained field, | Cry hauocke kings, backe to the stained field |
| King John | KJ III.i.45 | Full of unpleasing blots and sightless stains, | Full of vnpleasing blots, and sightlesse staines, |
| King John | KJ III.i.236 | Heaven knows, they were besmeared and overstained | Heauen knowes they were besmear'd and ouer-staind |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.6 | The faiths of men ne'er stained with revolt; | The faiths of men, nere stained with reuolt: |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.24 | We will not line his thin bestained cloak | We will not lyne his thin-bestained cloake |
| King Lear | KL I.i.134 | By you to be sustained, shall our abode | By you to be sustain'd, shall our abode |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.329 | If she sustain him and his hundred knights | If she sustaine him, and his hundred Knights |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.273 | Stain my man's cheeks! No, you unnatural hags, | Staine my mans cheekes. No you vnnaturall Hags, |
| King Lear | KL III.iii.5 | speak of him, entreat for him, or any way sustain him. | speake of him, entreat for him, or any way sustaine him. |
| King Lear | KL IV.iv.6 | In our sustaining corn. (To soldiers) A century send forth; | In our sustaining Corne. A Centery send forth; |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.260 | If that her breath will mist or stain the stone, | If that her breath will mist or staine the stone, |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.318 | Rule in this realm, and the gored state sustain. | Rule in this Realme, and the gor'd state sustaine. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.48 | If virtue's gloss will stain with any soil – | If vertues glosse will staine with any soile, |
| Macbeth | Mac II.ii.13 | Enter Macbeth, carrying two bloodstained daggers | Enter Macbeth. |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.iv.55.1 | As she that he hath stained? | As she that he hath staind? |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.203 | redeem your brother from the angry law, do no stain | redeem your brother from the angry Law; doe no staine |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.iii.136 | Forget the shames that you have stained me with, | Forget the shames that you haue staind me with, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.373 | That doth sustain my house. You take my life | That doth sustaine my house: you take my life |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.142 | Which Lion vile with bloody mouth did stain. | Which Lyon vile with bloody mouth did staine. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.275 | What, stained with blood! | what staind with blood! |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.i.85 | To stain my cousin with. One doth not know | To staine my cosin with, one doth not know, |
| Othello | Oth V.i.36 | Thy bed, lust-stained, shall with lust's blood be spotted. | Thy Bed lust-stain'd, shall with Lusts blood bee spotted. |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.258 | A better never did itself sustain | A better neuer did it selfe sustaine |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.76 | And who abstains from meat that is not gaunt? | And who abstaynes from meate, that is not gaunt? |
| Richard II | R2 III.i.14 | And stained the beauty of a fair queen's cheeks | And stayn'd the beautie of a faire Queenes Cheekes, |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.66 | To dim his glory and to stain the track | To dimme his glory, and to staine the tract |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.71 | That any harm should stain so fair a show! | That any harme should staine so faire a shew. |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.29 | To stain the temper of my knightly sword. | To staine the temper of my Knightly sword. |
| Richard II | R2 V.v.110 | Hath with the King's blood stained the King's own land. | Hath with the Kings blood, stain'd the Kings own land. |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.233 | From all the impure blots and stains thereof; | From all the impure blots and staynes thereof; |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.207 | And I'll corrupt her manners, stain her beauty, | And Ile corrupt her Manners, staine her Beauty, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.323 | They would distrain the one, distain the other. | They would restraine the one, distaine the other, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.82 | Profaners of this neighbour-stained steel, – | Prophaners of this Neighbor-stained Steele, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iii.71 | Lo, here upon thy cheek the stain doth sit | Lo here vpon thy cheeke the staine doth sit, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.i.111 | In my behalf – my reputation stained | In my behalfe, my reputation stain'd |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.ii.13 | Played for a pair of stainless maidenhoods. | Plaid for a paire of stainlesse Maidenhoods, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.iii.95 | Now I have stained the childhood of our joy | Now I haue stain'd the Childhood of our ioy, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.i.88 | To live an unstained wife to my sweet love. | To liue an vnstained wife to my sweet Loue. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.140 | Alack, alack, what blood is this which stains | Alacke, alacke, what blood is this which staines |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.203 | This dagger hath mista'en, for, lo, his house | This Dagger hath mistaine, for loe his house |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.218 | On their sustaining garments not a blemish, | On their sustaining garments not a blemish, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.415 | Was in the wrack; and, but he's something stained | Was in the wracke: and but hee's something stain'd |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.67 | stained with salt water. | stain'd with salte water. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.16 | It stains the glory in that happy verse | It staines the glory in that happy Verse, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.171 | Giving our holy virgins to the stain | Giuing our holy Virgins to the staine |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.199 | That nature's fragile vessel doth sustain | That Natures fragile Vessell doth sustaine |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.119 | Andronicus, stain not thy tomb with blood. | Andronicus, staine not thy Tombe with blood. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.210 | From this unhallowed and blood-stained hole? | From this vnhallow'd and blood-stained Hole? |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.125 | How they are stained like meadows yet not dry | How they are stain'd in meadowes, yet not dry |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.211 | And stain the sun with fog, as sometime clouds | And staine the Sun with fogge as somtime cloudes, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.169 | Here stands the spring whom you have stained with mud, | Here stands the spring whom you haue stain'd with mud, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.38 | Because she was enforced, stained, and deflowered? | Because she was enfor'st, stain'd, and deflowr'd? |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.153 | These sorrowful drops upon thy bloodstained face, | These sorrowfull drops vpon thy bloud-slaine face, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.26 | stain of it. He is melancholy without cause, and merry | staine of it. He is melancholy without cause, and merry |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.241 | The worthiness of praise distains his worth | The worthinesse of praise distaines his worth: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.ii.182 | Let all untruths stand by thy stained name, | Let all vntruths stand by thy stained name, |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.167 | taken great pains to con it. Good beauties, let me sustain | taken great paines to con it. Good Beauties, let mee sustaine |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.248 | Of great estate, of fresh and stainless youth, | Of great estate, of fresh and stainlesse youth; |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.ii.125 | Your need to sustain. | your neede to sustaine. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.25.1 | Enter three Queens in black, with veils stained, with | Enter 3. Queenes in Blacke, with vailes staind, with |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.189 | Did I not by th' abstaining of my joy, | Did I not by th'abstayning of my joy |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.ii.19 | Here's such ado to make no stain a stain | Heere's such a-doe, to make no staine, a staine, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.149 | Do plainly give you out an unstained shepherd, | Do plainly giue you out an vnstain'd Shepherd |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.iii.82 | You'll mar it if you kiss it; stain your own | You'le marre it, if you kisse it; stayne your owne |