| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.68 | That of his fortunes you should make a staff | That of his Fortunes you should make a staffe |
| As You Like It | AYL III.iv.40 | side breaks his staff like a noble goose. But all's brave | side, breakes his staffe like a noble goose; but all's braue |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.i.51 | Have at you with a proverb: shall I set in my staff? | haue at you with a Prouerbe, / Shall I set in my staffe. |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.25 | By his cockle hat and staff, | By his Cockle hat and staffe, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.i.34 | For you my staff of office did I break | For you, my staffe of Office did I breake |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.124 | His own life hung upon the staff he threw. | (His owne Life hung vpon the Staffe hee threw) |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.ii.25 | Methought this staff, mine office-badge in court, | Me thought this staffe mine Office-badge in Court |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.iii.23 | Give up thy staff. Henry will to himself | giue vp thy Staffe, / Henry will to himselfe |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.iii.31 | Give up your staff, sir, and the King his realm. | Giue vp your Staffe, Sir, and the King his Realme. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.iii.32 | My staff? Here, noble Henry, is my staff; | My Staffe? Here, Noble Henry, is my Staffe: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.iii.43 | This staff of honour raught, there let it stand | This Staffe of Honor raught, there let it stand, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.iii.59.4 | staff with a sand-bag fastened to it; and at the other | Staffe, with a Sand-bagge fastened to it: and at the other |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.171 | ‘ A staff is quickly found to beat a dog.’ | A Staffe is quickly found to beat a Dogge. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.154 | fain to go with a staff, but that my puissance holds it up. | faine to go with a staffe, but that my puissance holds it vp. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.vi.1.1 | Enter Jack Cade and the rest, and strikes his staff | Enter Iacke Cade and the rest, and strikes his |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.i.97 | Thy hand is made to grasp a palmer's staff, | Thy Hand is made to graspe a Palmers staffe, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.i.203 | The rampant bear chained to the ragged staff, | The rampant Beare chain'd to the ragged staffe, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.69 | Now thou art gone, we have no staff, no stay. | Now thou art gone, wee haue no Staffe, no Stay. |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.v.1.3 | marshal's staff, Duke of Suffolk, two noblemen | Marshals Staffe Duke of Suffolke, two Noblemen, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.ii.80 | Why, this it is to trust a broken staff. | Why this it is to trust a broken staffe. |
| King John | KJ II.i.318 | That is removed by a staff of France; | That is remoued by a staffe of France. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.ii.103 | Let me hear a staff, a stanze, a verse. Lege, | Let me heare a staffe, a stanze, a verse, Lege |
| Macbeth | Mac V.iii.48 | Come, put mine armour on, give me my staff. | Come, put mine Armour on: giue me my Staffe: |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ii.60 | Marry, God forbid! The boy was the very staff of | Marrie God forbid, the boy was the verie staffe of |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ii.63 | staff or a prop? Do you know me, father? | staffe or a prop: doe you know me Father. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.v.35 | My sober house. By Jacob's staff I swear | My sober house. By Iacobs staffe I sweare, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.135 | Nay, then, give him another staff; this last was | Nay then giue him another staffe, this last was |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.iv.121 | There is no staff more reverend than one tipped with | there is no staff more reuerend then one tipt with |
| Pericles | Per II.iii.35 | Has broken a staff or so. So let it pass. | ha's broken a Staffe, / Or so; so let it passe. |
| Richard II | R2 II.ii.59 | Hath broken his staff, resigned his stewardship, | Hath broke his staffe, resign'd his Stewardship, |
| Richard II | R2 II.iii.27 | Broken his staff of office, and dispersed | Broken his Staffe of Office, and disperst |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.54 | This airy charm is for, I'll break my staff, | This Ayrie-charme is for, I'le breake my staffe, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.201 | Give me a staff of honour for mine age, | Giue me a staffe of Honour for mine age. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.i.69.1 | He writes his name with his staff, and guides it with | He writes his Name with his staffe, and guides it with |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.i.76.1 | She takes the staff in her mouth, and guides it with | She takes the staffe in her mouth, and guides it with |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iii.18 | father. A vengeance on't, there 'tis. Now, sir, this staff | father: a veng'ance on't, there 'tis: Now sir, this staffe |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.v.24 | staff understands me. | staffe vnderstands me? |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.v.27 | and my staff understands me. | and my staffe vnderstands me. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.246 | Hope is a lover's staff; walk hence with that, | Hope is a louers staffe, walke hence with that |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.115 | He wears a well-steeled axe, the staff of gold; | He weares a well-steeld Axe, the staffe of gold, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.140 | He bears a charging staff, embossed with silver. | He beares a charging Staffe, embost with silver. |