| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.85 | That I should love a bright particular star | That I should loue a bright particuler starre, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.180 | Whose baser stars do shut us up in wishes, | Whose baser starres do shut vs vp in wishes, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.188 | charitable star. | charitable starre. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.84 | have a good woman born but one every blazing star or | haue a good woman borne but ore euerie blazing starre, or |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.i.55 | the most received star; and though the devil lead the | the most receiu'd starre, and though the deuill leade the |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.v.75 | Wherein toward me my homely stars have failed | Wherein toward me my homely starres haue faild |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.ii.65 | Let all the number of the stars give light | Let all the number of the Starres giue light |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.vii.21 | That from Tarentum and Brundisium | That from Tarrentum, and Brandusium, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.95.2 | Moon and stars! | Moone and Starres, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.145 | When my good stars that were my former guides | When my good Starres, that were my former guides |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xiv.106.2 | The star is fallen. | The Starre is falne. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.i.46 | Where mine his thoughts did kindle – that our stars, | Where mine his thoughts did kindle; that our Starres |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.307.2 | O eastern star! | Oh Easterne Starre. |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.59 | And they are often tarred over with the surgery of | And they are often tarr'd ouer, with the surgery of |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.60 | our sheep; and would you have us kiss tar? The | our sheepe: and would you haue vs kisse Tarre? The |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.64 | wise and perpend: civet is of a baser birth than tar, the | wise and perpend: Ciuet is of a baser birth then Tarre, the |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iii.59 | Fillip the stars. Then let the mutinous winds | Fillop the Starres: Then, let the mutinous windes |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.ii.28 | That knew the stars as I his characters; | That knew the Starres, as I his Characters, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.105 | Our Jovial star reigned at his birth, and in | Our Iouiall Starre reign'd at his Birth, and in |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.353.1 | To inlay heaven with stars. | To in-lay Heauen with Starres. |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.365 | Upon his neck a mole, a sanguine star; | Vpon his necke a Mole, a sanguine Starre, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.i.36 | When yond same star that's westward from the pole | When yond same Starre that's Westward from the Pole |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.17 | Make thy two eyes like stars start from their spheres, | Make thy two eyes like Starres, start from their Spheres, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.115 | Doubt thou the stars are fire. | Doubt thou, the Starres are fire, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.141 | ‘ Lord Hamlet is a prince, out of thy star. | Lord Hamlet is a Prince out of thy Starre, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.352 | sides, and the nation holds it no sin to tarre them to | sides: and the Nation holds it no sinne, to tarre them to |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.15 | That, as the star moves not but in his sphere, | That as the Starre moues not but in his Sphere, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.252 | Conjures the wandering stars, and makes them stand | Coniure the wandring Starres, and makes them stand |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.250 | Your skill shall, like a star i'th' darkest night, | Your Skill shall like a Starre i'th'darkest night, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.14 | that take purses go by the moon and the seven stars, and | that take Purses, go by the Moone and seuen Starres, and |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.iv.64 | Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere, | Two Starres keepe not their motion in one Sphere, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.182 | seen the seven stars! | seene the seuen Starres. |
| Henry V | H5 III.vii.67 | in your tent tonight – are those stars or suns upon it? | in your Tent to night, are those Starres or Sunnes vpon it? |
| Henry V | H5 III.vii.68 | Stars, my lord. | Starres my Lord. |
| Henry V | H5 Epil.chorus.6 | This star of England. Fortune made his sword, | This Starre of England. Fortune made his Sword; |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.55 | A far more glorious star thy soul will make | A farre more glorious Starre thy Soule will make, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.ii.144 | Bright star of Venus, fallen down on the earth, | Bright Starre of Venus, falne downe on the Earth, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.v.6 | But, O, malignant and ill-boding stars! | But O malignant and ill-boading Starres, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.206 | What lowering star now envies thy estate, | What lowring Starre now enuies thy estate? |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.vi.22 | May not be punished with my thwarting stars, | May not be punisht with my thwarting starres, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.vi.29 | For few men rightly temper with the stars. | For few men rightly temper with the Starres: |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.i.54 | Their coronets say so. These are stars indeed – | Their Coronets say so. These are Starres indeed, |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.139 | The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, | The fault (deere Brutus) is not in our Starres, |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.2 | I cannot, by the progress of the stars, | I cannot, by the progresse of the Starres, |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.60 | But I am constant as the northern star, | But I am constant as the Northerne Starre, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.ii.163 | When to the great Star-chamber o'er our heads | When to the great Starre-chamber ore our heads, |
| King John | KJ III.i.126 | Upon thy stars, thy fortune, and thy strength, | Vpon thy starres, thy fortune, and thy strength, |
| King John | KJ IV.i.116 | Snatch at his master that doth tarre him on. | Snatch at his Master that doth tarre him on. |
| King John | KJ V.vii.74 | Now, now, you stars that move in your right spheres, | Now, now you Starres, that moue in your right spheres, |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.121 | the moon, and stars, as if we were villains on necessity, | the Moone, and Starres, as if we were villaines on necessitie, |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.128 | star. My father compounded with my mother under the | Starre, My father compounded with my mother vnder the |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.131 | have been that I am had the maidenliest star in the | haue bin that I am, had the maidenlest Starre in the |
| King Lear | KL I.v.34 | seven stars are no more than seven is a pretty reason. | seuen Starres are no mo then seuen, is a pretty reason. |
| King Lear | KL III.i.22 | Who have – as who have not that their great stars | Who haue, as who haue not, that their great Starres |
| King Lear | KL III.iv.57 | whirlwinds, star-blasting, and taking! Do Poor Tom | Whirle-Windes, Starre-blasting, and taking, do poore Tom |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.89 | That give a name to every fixed star, | That giue a name to euery fixed Starre, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.229 | She, an attending star, scarce seen a light. | Shee (an attending Starre) scarce seene a light. |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iv.42 | But signs of nobleness, like stars, shall shine | But signes of Noblenesse, like Starres, shall shine |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iv.51 | For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires, | For in my way it lyes. Starres hide your fires, |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.196 | chance nothing of what is writ. Look, th' unfolding star | chance nothing of what is writ. Looke, th' vnfolding Starre |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.183 | Your eyes are lodestars, and your tongue's sweet air | Your eyes are loadstarres, and your tongues sweet ayre |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.153 | And certain stars shot madly from their spheres | And certaine starres shot madly from their Spheares, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.306 | She will find him by starlight. Here she comes; | She wil finde him by starre-light. / Heere she comes, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.229 | near her; she would infect to the north star. I would not | neere her, she would infect to the north starre: I would not |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.310 | there was a star danced, and under that was I born. | there was a starre daunst, and vnder that was I borne: |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iv.51 | more sailing by the star. | more sayling by the starre. |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.2 | Let me not name it to you, you chaste stars! | Let me not name it to you, you chaste Starres, |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.270 | Now, how dost thou look now? O ill-starred wench, | Now: how dost thou looke now? Oh ill-Starr'd wench, |
| Pericles | Per I.i.38 | That without covering, save yon field of stars, | That without couering, saue yon field of Starres, |
| Pericles | Per I.iv.108 | Until our stars that frown lend us a smile. | Vntill our Starres that frowne, lend vs a smile. |
| Pericles | Per II.i.1 | Yet cease your ire, you angry stars of heaven! | Yet cease your ire you angry Starres of heauen, |
| Pericles | Per II.iii.39 | Had princes sit like stars about his throne, | Had Princes sit like Starres about his Throane, |
| Pericles | Per V.iii.79 | Heavens make a star of him! Yet there, my queen, | Heauens make a Starre of him, yet there my Queene, |
| Richard II | R2 II.iv.9 | And meteors fright the fixed stars of heaven. | And Meteors fright the fixed Starres of Heauen; |
| Richard II | R2 II.iv.19 | I see thy glory like a shooting star | I see thy Glory, like a shooting Starre, |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.21 | Shall I so much dishonour my fair stars | Shall I so much dishonor my faire Starres, |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.102 | To wail the dimming of our shining star; | To waile the dimming of our shining Starre: |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.171 | The right and fortune of his happy stars, | The Right and Fortune of his happie Starres, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.216 | Lo, at their births good stars were opposite. | Loe at their Birth, good starres were opposite. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.ii.25 | Earth-treading stars that make dark heaven light. | Earth-treading starres, that make darke heauen light, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.107 | Some consequence, yet hanging in the stars, | Some consequence yet hanging in the starres, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.15 | Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven, | Two of the fairest starres in all the Heauen, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.19 | The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars | The brightnesse of her cheeke would shame those starres, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.ii.22 | Take him and cut him out in little stars, | Take him and cut him out in little starres, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.i.24 | Is it e'en so? Then I defy you, stars! | Is it euen so? / Then I denie you Starres. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.111 | And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars | And shake the yoke of inauspicious starres |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.v.7 | It shall be moon, or star, or what I list, | It shall be moone, or starre, or what I list, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.182 | A most auspicious star, whose influence | A most auspitious starre, whose influence |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.61 | Whose star-like nobleness gave life and influence | Whose Starre-like Noblenesse gaue life and influence |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.32 | And now, young lords, was't not a happy star | And now young Lords, wa'stnot a happy starre |
| 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. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.46 | Or like a star disorbed? Nay, if we talk of reason, | Or like a Starre disorb'd. Nay, if we talke of Reason, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.i.18 | diseases of the south, guts-griping ruptures, catarrhs, | diseases of the South, guts-griping Ruptures, Catarres, |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.iii.126 | the star of a galliard. | the starre of a Galliard. |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.i.3 | By your patience, no. My stars shine darkly | By your patience, no: my starres shine darkely |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.163 | habits of her liking. I thank my stars, I am happy! I | habites of her liking. I thanke my starres, I am happy: I |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.166 | my stars be praised! Here is yet a postscript. | my starres be praised. Heere is yet a postscript. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.vi.9 | At first I did adore a twinkling star, | At first I did adore a twinkling Starre, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.vii.74 | But truer stars did govern Proteus' birth; | But truer starres did gouerne Protheus birth, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.iv.1.1 | To thee no star be dark. | To thee no starre be darke. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.1 | Nine changes of the watery star hath been | Nine Changes of the Watry-Starre hath been |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.363 | To me a break-neck. Happy star reign now! | To me a breake-neck. Happy Starre raigne now, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.425 | By each particular star in heaven and | By each particular Starre in Heauen, and |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.98 | Starred most unluckily, is from my breast – | (Star'd most vnluckily) is from my breast |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.i.67.2 | Stars, stars, | Starres, Starres, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.i.205 | The stars, I see, will kiss the valleys first: | The Starres (I see) will kisse the Valleyes first: |