| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.i.73 | That's able to breathe life into a stone, | That's able to breath life into a stone, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.115 | Go to, then; your considerate stone. | Go too then: your Considerate stone. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.160 | And poison it in the source, and the first stone | And poyson it in the sourse, and the first stone |
| As You Like It | AYL I.ii.42 | Enter Touchstone | Enter Clowne. |
| As You Like It | AYL I.ii.52 | for our whetstone: for always the dullness of of the fool is | for our whetstone. for alwaies the dulnesse of the foole, is |
| As You Like It | AYL I.ii.53 | the whetstone of the wits. How now, wit, whither | the whetstone of the wits. How now Witte, whether |
| As You Like It | AYL I.ii.218 | Exit Duke, with Lords, Le Beau, and Touchstone | Exit Duke. |
| As You Like It | AYL II.i.17 | Sermons in stones, and good in everything. | Sermons in stones, and good in euery thing. |
| As You Like It | AYL II.iv.1.2 | the Clown, alias Touchstone | Clowne, alias Touchstone. |
| As You Like It | AYL II.iv.16 | Ay, be so, good Touchstone. – Look you, who comes here: | I, be so good Touchstone: Look you, who comes here, |
| As You Like It | AYL II.iv.43 | I broke my sword upon a stone and bid him take that for | I broke my sword vpon a stone, and bid him take that for |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.11 | Enter Corin and Touchstone | Enter Corin & Clowne. |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.11 | And how like you this shepherd's life, Master | And how like you this shepherds life Mr Touchstone? |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.12 | Touchstone? | |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.43 | Not a whit, Touchstone. Those that are good | Not a whit Touchstone, those that are good |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.158 | Exit Touchstone, with Corin | Exit. |
| As You Like It | AYL III.iii.1.1 | Enter Touchstone and Audrey, followed by Jaques | Enter Clowne, Audrey, & Iaques. |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.26 | A freestone-coloured hand; I verily did think | A freestone coloured hand: I verily did thinke |
| As You Like It | AYL V.i.1 | Enter Touchstone and Audrey | Enter Clowne and Awdrie. |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iii.1 | Enter Touchstone and Audrey | Enter Clowne and Audrey. |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iv.34.1 | Enter Touchstone and Audrey | Enter Clowne and Audrey. |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iv.132.1 | (to Touchstone and Audrey) | |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iv.188 | (to Touchstone) | |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iii.73 | A nut, a cherry stone. | a nut, a cherrie-stone: |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.172 | Or hailstone in the sun. Your virtue is | Or Hailstone in the Sun. Your Vertue is, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.204 | That hunger broke stone walls, that dogs must eat, | That Hunger-broke stone wals: that dogges must eate |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.ii.75 | Thy knee bussing the stones – for in such business | Thy Knee bussing the stones: for in such businesse |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.iv.5 | Lest that thy wives with spits and boys with stones | Least that thy Wiues with Spits, and Boyes with stones |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iv.2 | cornerstone? | corner stone? |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.v.74 | I praised her as I rated her: so do I my stone. | I prais'd her, as I rated her: so do I my Stone. |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vii.35 | The fiery orbs above, and the twinned stones | The firie Orbes aboue, and the twinn'd Stones |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.40 | Sparkles this stone as it was wont, or is't not | Sparkles this Stone as it was wont, or is't not |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.46.1 | The stone's too hard to come by. | The Stones too hard to come by. |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.271 | Nor th' all-dreaded thunder-stone. | Nor th'all-dreaded Thunderstone. |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.222 | Spit, and throw stones, cast mire upon me, set | Spit, and throw stones, cast myre vpon me, set |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.240 | The gods throw stones of sulphur on me, if | the Gods throw stones of sulpher on me, if |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.127 | His form and cause conjoined, preaching to stones, | His forme and cause conioyn'd, preaching to stones, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.32 | At his heels a stone. | at his heeles a stone. |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.20 | Work like the spring that turneth wood to stone, | Would like the Spring that turneth Wood to Stone, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vi.34 | | [Q1 replaces this scene with the following] Enter Horatio and the Queene. HOR. Madame, your sonne is safe arriv'de in Denmarke, This letter I euen now receiv'd of him, Whereas he writes how he escap't the danger, And subtle treason that the king had plotted, Being crossed by the contention of the windes, He found the Packet sent to the king of England, Wherein he saw himselfe betray'd to death, As at his next conuersion with your grace, He will relate the circumstance at full. QUEENE. Then I perceiue there's treason in his lookes That seem'd to sugar o're his villanie: But I will soothe and please him for a time, For murderous mindes are alwayes jealous, But know not you Horatio where he is? HOR. Yes Madame, and he hath appoynted me To meete him on the east side of the Cittie To morrow morning. QUEENE. O faile not, good Horatio, and withall, commend me A mothers care to him, bid him a while Be wary of his presence, lest that he Faile in that he goes about. HOR. Madam, neuer make doubt of that: I thinke by this the news be come to court: He is arriv'de, obserue the king, and you shall Quickely finde, Hamlet being here, Things fell not to his minde. QUEENE. But what became of Gilderstone and Rossencraft? HOR. He being set ashore, they went for England, And in the Packet there writ down that doome To be perform'd on them poynted for him: And by great chance he had his fathers Seale, So all was done without discouerie. QUEENE. Thankes be to heauen for blessing of the prince, Horatio once againe I take my leaue, With thowsand mothers blessings to my sonne. HORAT. Madam adue. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 induction.35 | And this worm-eaten hold of ragged stone, | And this Worme-eaten-Hole of ragged Stone, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.205 | Of fair King Richard, scraped from Pomfret stones; | Of faire King Richard, scrap'd from Pomfret stones, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.318 | but I will make him a philosopher's two stones to me. If | but I will make him a Philosophers two Stones to me. If |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.283 | Hath turned his balls to gun-stones, and his soul | Hath turn'd his balles to Gun-stones, and his soule |
| Henry V | H5 II.iii.23 | bed, and felt them, and they were as cold as any stone; | Bed, and felt them, and they were as cold as any stone: |
| Henry V | H5 II.iii.25 | all was as cold as any stone. | all was as cold as any stone. |
| Henry V | H5 III.vi.28 | That stands upon the rolling restless stone – | that stands vpon the rolling restlesse Stone. |
| Henry V | H5 III.vi.35 | spherical stone, which rolls, and rolls, and rolls. In | Sphericall Stone, which rowles, and rowles, and rowles: in |
| Henry V | H5 IV.vii.59 | And make them skirr away as swift as stones | And make them sker away, as swift as stones |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iv.45 | And with my nails digged stones out of the ground | And with my nayles digg'd stones out of the ground, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.76 | A noise again: ‘ Stones! Stones!’ Enter the Mayor | A noyse againe, Stones, Stones. Enter Maior. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.80 | Have filled their pockets full of pebble-stones | Haue fill'd their Pockets full of peeble stones; |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.89 | Nay, if we be forbidden stones, | Nay,if we be forbidden Stones, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.vi.1.2 | on London Stone | staffe on London stone. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.vi.2 | upon London Stone, I charge and command that, | vpon London Stone, / I charge and command, that |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.ii.50 | My heart is turned to stone, and while 'tis mine | My heart is turn'd to stone: and while 'tis mine, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.i.63 | Not decked with diamonds and Indian stones, | Not deck'd with Diamonds, and Indian stones: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.i.84 | Who gave his blood to lime the stones together, | Who gaue his blood to lyme the stones together, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.i.108 | Or shall we beat the stones about thine ears? | Or shall we beat the Stones about thine Eares? |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iii.104 | When ye first put this dangerous stone a-rolling, | When we first put this dangerous stone a rowling, |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.i.35 | You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things! | You Blockes, you stones, you worse then senslesse things: |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.iii.49 | Have bared my bosom to the thunder-stone; | Haue bar'd my Bosome to the Thunder-stone: |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.ii.143 | You are not wood, you are not stones, but men; | You are not Wood, you are not Stones, but men: |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.ii.231 | The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny. | The stones of Rome, to rise and Mutiny. |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iii.69 | And flintstones rise and break the battle 'ray, | and flint stones rise and breake the battell ray: |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iii.75 | For, as it is impossible that stones | For as it is impossible that stones |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.vi.16 | And to it with stones! Away, Artois, away! | and to it with stones, awaie Artoys, awaie, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.vi.25 | And that our native stones from English arms | and that our natiue stones from English armes |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.vi.36 | Hath with a stone foiled twenty stout Goliaths; | Hath with a stone foild twentie stout Goliahs, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.vi.42 | Have forty lean slaves this day stoned to death. | Haue fortie leane slaues this daie stoned to death. |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.204 | That now are turned to ragged heaps of stones. | That now are turnd to ragged heaps of stones? |
| King John | KJ II.i.216 | And but for our approach those sleeping stones, | And but for our approch, those sleeping stones, |
| King John | KJ IV.i.76 | I will not struggle; I will stand stone-still. | I will not struggle, I will stand stone still: |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.9 | O me! My uncle's spirit is in these stones! | Oh me, my Vnckles spirit is in these stones, |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.55 | Ay tailor, sir. A stone-cutter or a painter could not | A Taylor Sir, a Stone-cutter, or a Painter, could not |
| King Lear | KL III.ii.64 | More harder than the stones whereof 'tis raised; | (More harder then the stones whereof 'tis rais'd, |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.188 | Their precious stones new lost; became his guide, | Their precious Stones new lost: became his guide, |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.255 | Howl, howl, howl! O, you are men of stones! | Howle, howle, howle: O your are men of stones, |
| 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, |
| Macbeth | Mac II.i.58 | Thy very stones prate of my whereabout | Thy very stones prate of my where-about, |
| Macbeth | Mac III.iv.122 | Stones have been known to move and trees to speak; | Stones haue beene knowne to moue, & Trees to speake: |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.i.6 | Toad that under cold stone | Toad, that vnder cold stone, |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.227 | Be this the whetstone of your sword; let grief | Be this the Whetstone of your sword, let griefe |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.iii.53 | Is more to bread than stone. Hence shall we see, | Is more to bread then stone: hence shall we see |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.103 | cracking the stones of the foresaid prunes – | cracking the stones of the foresaid prewyns. |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.150 | Or stones whose rates are either rich or poor | Or Stones, whose rate are either rich, or poore |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.i.30 | And see the holy edifice of stone | And see the holy edifice of stone, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.viii.20 | And jewels, two stones, two rich and precious stones, | And iewels, two stones, two rich and precious stones, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.viii.22 | She hath the stones upon her, and the ducats.’ | She hath the stones vpon her, and the ducats. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.viii.24 | Crying his stones, his daughter, and his ducats. | Crying his stones, his daughter, and his ducats. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.80 | Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods, | Did faine that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iii.76 | Rogues, hence, avaunt! Vanish like hailstones, go! | Rogues, hence, auaunt, vanish like haile-stones; goe, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iv.109 | By gar, I will cut all his two stones. By gar, he shall not | by gar I will cut all his two stones: by gar, he shall not |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iv.110 | have a stone to throw at his dog. | haue a stone to throw at his dogge. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.i.30 | A stone. | A Stone. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.i.31 | And what is ‘ a stone,’ William? | And what is a Stone (William?) |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.159 | This loam, this roughcast, and this stone doth show | This loame, this rough-cast, and this stone doth shew, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.178 | Cursed be thy stones for thus deceiving me! | Curst be thy stones for thus deceiuing mee. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.187 | My cherry lips have often kissed thy stones, | My cherry lips haue often kist thy stones; |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.188 | Thy stones with lime and hair knit up in thee. | Thy stones with Lime and Haire knit vp in thee. |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.182 | stone: I strike it, and it hurts my hand. – O, the world | stone: I strike it, and it hurts my hand. Oh, the world |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.232 | Fire and brimstone! | Fire, and brimestone. |
| Othello | Oth IV.iii.44 | Her salt tears fell from her and softened the stones – | Her salt teares fell from her, and softned the stones, |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.63 | O perjured woman! Thou dost stone my heart, | O periur'd woman, thou do'st stone my heart, |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.232.2 | Are there no stones in heaven | Are there no stones in Heauen, |
| Pericles | Per II.ii.37 | Holding out gold that's by the touchstone tried. | Holding out Gold, that's by the Touch-stone tride: |
| Pericles | Per III.ii.35 | That dwell in vegetives, in metals, stones; | that dwels / In Vegetiues, in Mettals, Stones: |
| Richard II | R2 I.ii.69 | Unpeopled offices, untrodden stones, | Vn-peopel'd Offices, vntroden stones? |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.46 | This precious stone set in the silver sea, | This precious stone, set in the siluer sea, |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.24 | This earth shall have a feeling, and these stones | This Earth shall haue a feeling, and these Stones |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.26 | Within the limits of yon lime and stone, | Within the limits of yond Lime and Stone, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.352 | Your eyes drop millstones when fools' eyes fall tears. | Your eyes drop Mill-stones, when Fooles eyes fall Teares: |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.27 | Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels, | Inestimable Stones, vnvalewed Iewels, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.243 | Ay, millstones, as he lessoned us to weep. | I Milstones, as he lessoned vs to weepe. |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.25 | But, like dumb statuas or breathing stones, | But like dumbe Statues, or breathing Stones, |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.223 | Call them again. I am not made of stone, | Call them againe, I am not made of Stones, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.i.98 | Pity, you ancient stones, those tender babes | Pitty, you ancient Stones, those tender Babes, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.i.103 | So foolish sorrow bids your stones farewell. | So foolish Sorrowes bids your Stones farewell. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.228 | Till it was whetted on thy stone-hard heart | Till it was whetted on thy stone-hard heart, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.251 | A base foul stone, made precious by the foil | A base foule Stone, made precious by the soyle |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iii.54 | A bump as big as a young cockerel's stone, | a bumpe as big as a young Cockrels stone? |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.55 | In shape no bigger than an agate stone | in shape no bigger then Agat-stone, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.v.9 | porter let in Susan Grindstone and Nell. | Porter let in Susan Grindstone, and Nell, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iii.12 | In plants, herbs, stones, and their true qualities. | In Plants, Hearbs, stones, and their true qualities: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.13 | O woe! thy canopy is dust and stones – | O woe, thy Canopie is dust and stones, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.2.87 | Because she brought stone jugs and no sealed quarts. | Because she brought stone-Iugs, and no seal'd quarts: |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.ii.114 | stones more than's artificial one. He is very often like a | stones moe then's artificiall one. Hee is verie often like a |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.vi.86.2 | water and stones | |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.vi.102 | He throws the stones at them, and drives them out | |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.vi.118 | One day he gives us diamonds, next day stones. | One day he giues vs Diamonds, next day stones. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.372 | I am sorry I shall lose a stone by thee. | I am sorry I shall lose a stone by thee. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.373 | He throws a stone at Apemantus | |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.381 | Thy grave-stone daily. Make thine epitaph, | Thy graue stone dayly, make thine Epitaph, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.217 | And let my grave-stone be your oracle. | And let my graue-stone be your Oracle: |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.iv.67 | And on his grave-stone this insculpture which | And on his Grauestone, this Insculpture which |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.29 | And you recount your sorrows to a stone. | And you recount your sorrowes to a stone. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.37 | Therefore I tell my sorrows to the stones, | Therefore I tell my sorrowes bootles to the stones. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.45 | A stone is soft as wax, tribunes, more hard than stones. | A stone is as soft waxe, / Tribunes more hard then stones: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.46 | A stone is silent and offendeth not, | A stone is silent, and offendeth not, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.132 | And on the ragged stones beat forth our souls, | And on the ragged stones beat forth our braines, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.145 | With millstones. | With Milstones. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.184 | When water-drops have worn the stones of Troy, | When water drops haue worne the Stones of Troy; |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.223 | The fall of every Phrygian stone will cost | The fall of euery Phrygian stone will cost |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.ii.76 | Now she sharpens – well said, whetstone! | Now she sharpens: well said Whetstone. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.x.18 | There is a word will Priam turn to stone, | There is a word will Priam turne to stone; |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.80 | ordinary fool that has no more brain than a stone. Look | ordinary foole, that has no more braine then a stone. Looke |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.45 | O for a stone-bow to hit him in the eye! | O for a stone-bow to hit him in the eye. |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.49 | Fire and brimstone! | Fire and Brimstone. |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.ii.19 | to put fire in your heart and brimstone in your liver. You | to put fire in your Heart, and brimstone in your Liuer: you |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.197 | I have said too much unto a heart of stone, | I haue said too much vnto a hart of stone, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.i.139 | token but stones, for she's as hard as steel. | token but stones, for she's as hard as steele. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.ii.111 | I throw thy name against the bruising stones, | I throw thy name against the bruzing-stones, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iii.9 | cur shed one tear. He is a stone, a very pebble-stone, | Curre shedde one teare: he is a stone, a very pibble stone, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.vii.28 | He makes sweet music with th' enamelled stones, | He makes sweet musicke with th' enameld stones, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.ii.79 | Whose golden touch could soften steel and stones, | Whose golden touch could soften steele and stones; |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.129 | Though it were made of stone. Pray have good comfort. | Though it were made of stone: pray have good comfort. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iv.55 | Trotting the stones of Athens, which the calkins | Trotting the stones of Athens, which the Calkins |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.360 | Nor brass, nor stone, nor parchment bears not one, | Nor Brasse, nor Stone, nor Parchment beares not one, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.90.1 | As ever oak or stone was sound. | As euer Oake, or Stone was sound. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.594 | all my trumpery: not a counterfeit stone, not a ribbon, | all my Tromperie: not a counterfeit Stone, not a Ribbon, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.774 | he shall be stoned; but that death is too soft for him, say | hee shall be ston'd: but that death is too soft for him (say |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.799 | more ado. Remember, stoned, and flayed alive! | more adoe. Remember ston'd, and flay'd aliue. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.iii.25 | Chide me, dear stone, that I may say indeed | Chide me (deare Stone) that I may say indeed |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.iii.37 | I am ashamed. Does not the stone rebuke me | I am asham'd: Do's not the Stone rebuke me, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.iii.38 | For being more stone than it? O royal piece! | For being more Stone then it? Oh Royall Peece: |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.iii.42.1 | Standing like stone with thee. | Standing like Stone with thee. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.iii.58 | Would thus have wrought you – for the stone is mine – | Would thus haue wrought you (for the Stone is mine) |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.iii.99 | 'Tis time: descend; be stone no more; approach; | 'Tis time: descend: be Stone no more: approach: |