| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.297 | pestiferous reports of men very nobly held, can serve | pestifferous reports of men very nobly held, can serue |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.ii.101 | This is stiff news – hath with his Parthian force | (this is stiffe-newes) / Hath with his Parthian Force |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.ii.15 | For with long travel I am stiff and weary. | For with long trauaile I am stiffe and wearie. |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.159 | But make you ready your stiff bats and clubs. | But make you ready your stiffe bats and clubs, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.239.1 | What, art thou stiff? Stand'st out? | What art thou stiffe? Stand'st out? |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iii.32 | With your stiff age; but unto us it is | With your stiffe Age; but vnto vs, it is |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.95 | But bear me stiffly up. Remember thee? | But beare me stiffely vp: Remember thee? |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.iii.40 | Many a nobleman lies stark and stiff | Many a Nobleman lies starke and stiffe |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.177 | The stiff-borne action. What hath then befallen, | The stiffe-borne Action: What hath then befalne? |
| Henry V | H5 III.i.7 | Stiffen the sinews, conjure up the blood, | Stiffen the sinewes, commune vp the blood, |
| Henry V | H5 III.vii.138 | creatures: their mastiffs are of unmatchable courage. | Creatures; their Mastiffes are of vnmatchable courage. |
| Henry V | H5 III.vii.144 | the mastiffs in robustious and rough coming on, | the Mastiffes, in robustious and rough comming on, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.ii.42 | Their arms are set like clocks, stiff to strike on; | Their Armes are set, like Clocks, still to strike on; |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.16 | And passeth by with stiff unbowed knee, | And passeth by with stiffe vnbowed Knee, |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.i.72 | As the shrouds make at sea in a stiff tempest, | As the shrowdes make at Sea, in a stiffe Tempest, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.129 | Like stiff-grown oaks, will stand immovable | Like stiffe growen oakes, will stand immouable, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.161 | And presently they are as resty-stiff | And presently they are as resty stiffe, |
| King Lear | KL III.vi.67 | Mastiff, greyhound, mongrel grim, | Mastiffe, Grey-hound, Mongrill, Grim, |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.278 | The King is mad; how stiff is my vile sense, | The King is mad: / How stiffe is my vilde sense |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.115 | In stiff unwieldy arms against thy crown. | In stiffe vnwieldie Armes: against thy Crowne |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.i.103 | Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death. | Shall stiffe and starke, and cold appeare like death, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.26 | Her blood is settled, and her joints are stiff. | Her blood is setled and her ioynts are stiffe: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.391 | Must tarre the mastiffs on, as 'twere their bone. | Must tarre the Mastiffes on, as 'twere their bone. |