| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.137 | That you start at it? I say I am your mother, | That you start at it? I say I am your mother, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.ii.49 | That the first face of neither on the start | That the first face of neither on the start |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.82 | tartness. Here's his lordship now. How now, my lord? | tartnesse, heere's his Lordship now. How now my Lord, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.118 | comes. (Aloud) Portotartarossa. | comes: Portotartarossa. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iv.7 | Through flinty Tartar's bosom would peep forth | Through flintie Tartars bosome would peepe forth, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.232 | You boggle shrewdly; every feather starts you. – | You boggle shrewdly, euery feather starts you: |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.v.38 | Be free and healthful; so tart a favour | Be free and healthfull; so tart a fauour |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.91 | Like boys unto a muss, kings would start forth | Like Boyes vnto a musse, Kings would start forth, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xii.7 | Is valiant, and dejected, and by starts | Is valiant, and deiected, and by starts |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.14 | Patience herself would startle at this letter, | Patience her selfe would startle at this letter, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.i.30 | How if your husband start some otherwhere? | How if your husband start some other where? |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.ii.32 | No. He's in Tartar limbo, worse than hell. |
No, he's in Tartar limbo, worse then hell: |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.i.37.1 | That starts i'th' way before thee. | That start's i'th' way before thee. |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iv.17 | mother now than an eight-year-old horse. The tartness | Mother now, then an eight yeare old horse. The tartnesse |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.372 | That, after this strange starting from your orbs, | That after this strange starting from your Orbes, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.i.149 | And then it started, like a guilty thing | And then it started, like a guilty thing |
| 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 III.ii.317 | some frame, and start not so wildly from my affair. | some frame, and start not so wildely from my affayre. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.123 | Start up and stand an end. O gentle son, | Start vp, and stand an end. Oh gentle Sonne, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.193 | Now fear I this will give it start again. | Now feare I this will giue it start againe; |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.196 | To rouse a lion than to start a hare! | To rowze a Lyon, then to start a Hare. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.214.2 | You start away | You start away, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iii.45 | And start so often when thou sittest alone? | And start so often when thou sitt'st alone? |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.258 | starting-hole, canst thou now find out, to hide thee from | starting hole canst thou now find out, to hide thee from |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.ii.125 | Base inclination, and the start of spleen, | Base Inclination, and the start of Spleene, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.46 | Up to the rowel-head; and starting so | Vp to the Rowell head, and starting so, |
| Henry V | H5 II.ii.123 | He might return to vasty Tartar back, | He might returne to vastie Tartar backe, |
| Henry V | H5 III.i.32 | Straining upon the start. The game's afoot! | Straying vpon the Start. The Game's afoot: |
| Henry V | H5 Epil.chorus.4 | Mangling by starts the full course of their glory. | Mangling by starts the full course of their glory. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iii.27 | He starts to leave | |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.vii.12 | Suddenly made him from my side to start | Suddenly made him from my side to start |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.vii.87 | I think this upstart is old Talbot's ghost, | I thinke this vpstart is old Talbots Ghost, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.iv.35 | And when I start, the envious people laugh | And when I start, the enuious people laugh, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.i.32 | How now! Why starts thou? What, doth death affright? | How now? why starts thou? What doth death affright? |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.viii.42 | Should make a start o'er seas and vanquish you? | Should make a start ore-seas, and vanquish you? |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.113 | Is in his brain; he bites his lip, and starts, | Is in his braine: He bites his lip, and starts, |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.294 | Collected from his life. I'll startle you | Collected from his life. Ile startle you |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.130 | So get the start of the majestic world, | So get the start of the Maiesticke world, |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.146 | ‘ Brutus ’ will start a spirit as soon as ‘ Caesar.’ | Brutus will start a Spirit as soone as Casar. |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.71 | That it may raise drops in a Tartar's eye, | That it may rayse drops in a Torters eye, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.ii.47 | To start the tender Cupid in my bosom? | To start the tender Cupid in my bosome, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.113 | Or chase those straggling upstarts home again. | Or chase those stragling vpstarts home againe, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.33 | Dost start aside, and strike us with thy heels! | Dost start aside and strike vs with thy heeles, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.vi.19 | Dismayed, and distraught; swift-starting fear | Dismayed, and distraught, swift starting feare |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.25 | Startles and frights consideration, | Startles, and frights consideration: |
| King John | KJ V.ii.51 | Startles mine eyes, and makes me more amazed | Startles mine eyes, and makes me more amaz'd |
| King John | KJ V.ii.167 | And so shall you, being beaten. Do but start | And so shall you, being beaten: Do but start |
| King Lear | KL I.i.299 | Such unconstant starts are we like to have from | Such vnconstant starts are we like to haue from |
| King Lear | KL IV.ii.87 | The news is not so tart. – (Aloud) I'll read and answer. | The Newes is not so tart. Ile read, and answer. |
| King Lear | KL IV.iii.31 | And clamour moistened; then away she started | |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iii.50 | Good sir, why do you start, and seem to fear | Good Sir, why doe you start, and seeme to feare |
| Macbeth | Mac III.iv.62 | Led you to Duncan. O, these flaws and starts, | Led you to Duncan. O, these flawes and starts |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.i.29 | Nose of Turk, and Tartar's lips, | Nose of Turke, and Tartars lips: |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.i.115 | Why do you show me this? – A fourth? Start, eyes! | Why do you shew me this? --- A fourth? Start eyes! |
| Macbeth | Mac V.i.43 | my lord, no more o' that. You mar all with this starting. | my Lord, no more o'that: you marre all with this star-ting. |
| Macbeth | Mac V.ii.23 | His pestered senses to recoil and start, | His pester'd Senses to recoyle, and start, |
| Macbeth | Mac V.v.15.1 | Cannot once start me. | Cannot once start me. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ii.5 | Gobbo, use your legs, take the start, run away.’ My conscience | Iobbe, vse your legs, take the start, run awaie: my conscience |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.32 | From stubborn Turks and Tartars never trained | From stubborne Turkes and Tarters neuer traind |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.v.18 | Here's a Bohemian-Tartar tarries the coming down | Here's a Bohemian-Tartar taries the comming downe |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.86 | And turn him to no pain; but if he start, | And turne him to no paine: but if he start, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.159 | Well, I am your theme. You have the start of | Well, I am your Theame: you haue the start of |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.101 | Swifter than arrow from the Tartar's bow. | Swifter then arrow from the Tartars bowe. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.263.2 | Thy love? – out, tawny Tartar, out; | Thy loue? out tawny Tartar, out; |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.138.2 | lovers start up | they all start vp. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.342 | (starting up) | |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.iii.61 | food to my displeasure. That young start-up hath all the | food to my displeasure, that young start-vp hath all the |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.3 | How tartly that gentleman looks! I never can see | How tartly that Gentleman lookes, I neuer can see |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.158 | To start into her face, a thousand innocent shames | To start into her face, a thousand innocent shames, |
| Othello | Oth I.i.102 | To start my quiet. | To start my quiet. |
| Othello | Oth III.iv.79 | Why do you speak so startingly and rash? | Why do you speake so startingly, and rash? |
| Pericles | Per V.i.146 | Thou little knowest how thou dost startle me | thou little knowst howe thou doest startle me |
| Richard II | R2 II.iii.121 | To upstart unthrifts? Wherefore was I born? | To vpstart Vnthrifts? Wherefore was I borne? |
| Richard III | R3 II.i.82.1 | They all start | They all start. |
| Richard III | R3 III.iv.85 | And started when he looked upon the Tower, | And started, when he look'd vpon the Tower, |
| Richard III | R3 III.v.7 | Tremble and start at wagging of a straw; | Tremble and start at wagging of a Straw: |
| Richard III | R3 IV.ii.104 | And called it Rouge-mount; at which name I started, | |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.178 | Richard starts out of his dream | Richard starts out of his dreame. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.5 | Bearing a Tartar's painted bow of lath, | Bearing a Tartars painted Bow of lath, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.86 | Drums in his ear, at which he starts and wakes, | drums in his eares, at which he startes and wakes; |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.iii.100 | And now falls on her bed, and then starts up, | And now fals on her bed, and then starts vp, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.194 | What fear is this which startles in your ears? | What feare is this which startles in your eares? |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.247 | (coming to with a start) Yes, by Saint Anne, do I. A | Yes by Saint Anne do I, a |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.89 | What, up and down carved like an apple-tart? | What, vp and downe caru'd like an apple Tart? |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.139.3 | whereof, Prospero starts suddenly and speaks; after | whereof, Prospero starts sodainly and speakes, after |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC prologue.28 | Beginning in the middle; starting thence away | Beginning in the middle: starting thence away, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.2 | Anticipating time. With starting courage, | Anticipating time. With starting courage, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.ii.104.1 | But it straight starts you. | But it strait starts you. |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.ii.21 | For she did speak in starts, distractedly. | For she did speake in starts distractedly. |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.57 | Seven of my people, with an obedient start, | Seauen of my people with an obedient start, |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.198 | To the gates of Tartar, thou most excellent | To the gates of Tartar, thou most excellent |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.i.58 | He started one poor heart of mine, in thee. | He started one poore heart of mine, in thee. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.66 | Like tall ships under sail; then start amongst 'em | Like tall Ships under saile: then start among'st 'em |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.ii.8 | Thou hast the start now; thou shalt stay and see | Thou ha'st the Start now, thou shalt stay and see |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.iii.26 | But if it did, yours is too tart, sweet cousin. | But if it did, yours is too tart: sweete Cosen: |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iii.38 | By some small start of time. He whom the gods | By some small start of time, he whom the gods |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.iii.104 | Start not: her actions shall be holy as | Start not: her Actions shall be holy, as |