| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.110 | Ay. You have some stain of soldier in you: let me | I: you haue some staine of souldier in you: Let mee |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.i.120 | So stain our judgement or corrupt our hope, | So staine our iudgement, or corrupt our hope, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.iv.27 | Shall stain your brother. Make your soonest haste; | Shall staine your Brother, make your soonest hast, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.x.18 | With only suffering stain by him; for him | With onely suff'ring staine by him: for him |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.vi.113 | Stain all your edges on me. ‘Boy'! False hound! | Staine all your edges on me. Boy, false Hound: |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.139.1 | This stain upon her? | This staine vpon her? |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.140 | Another stain, as big as hell can hold, | Another staine, as bigge as Hell can hold, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.i.84 | See riot and dishonour stain the brow | See Ryot and Dishonor staine the brow |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.181 | Loseth men's hearts and leaves behind a stain | Loseth mens hearts, and leaues behinde a stayne |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.ii.136 | And stain my favours in a bloody mask, | And staine my fauours in a bloody Maske: |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.ii.93 | A sword whose temper I intend to stain | a Sword, / Whose worthy temper I intend to staine |
| Henry V | H5 IV.ii.19 | To give each naked curtle-axe a stain | To giue each naked Curtleax a stayne, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.45 | Stain to thy countrymen, thou hearest thy doom. | Staine to thy Countrymen, thou hear'st thy doom: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.v.26 | Flight cannot stain the honour you have won; | Flight cannot stayne the Honor you haue wonne, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.v.42 | Thy father's charge shall clear thee from that stain. | Thy Fathers charge shal cleare thee from yt staine. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.i.11 | Or with their blood stain this discoloured shore. | Or with their blood staine this discoloured shore. |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.132 | Such creatures as men doubt; but do not stain | Such Creatures as men doubt; but do not staine |
| King Edward III | E3 I.ii.100 | If that her self were by to stain herself, | If that her selfe were by to staine herselfe, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.416 | Hath he no means to stain my honest blood, | Hath he no meanes to stayne my honest blood, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.ii.185 | Shall stain thy earth with that which thou wouldst stain, | Shall staine thy earth, with that which thou would staine: |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iv.98 | For I will stain my horse quite o'er with blood | For I will staine my horse quite ore with bloud, |
| King John | KJ II.i.45 | Lest unadvised you stain your swords with blood. | Lest vnaduis'd you staine your swords with bloud, |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.273 | Stain my man's cheeks! No, you unnatural hags, | Staine my mans cheekes. No you vnnaturall Hags, |
| 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, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.48 | If virtue's gloss will stain with any soil – | If vertues glosse will staine with any soile, |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.203 | redeem your brother from the angry law, do no stain | redeem your brother from the angry Law; doe no staine |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.142 | Which Lion vile with bloody mouth did stain. | Which Lyon vile with bloody mouth did staine. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.i.85 | To stain my cousin with. One doth not know | To staine my cosin with, one doth not know, |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.66 | To dim his glory and to stain the track | To dimme his glory, and to staine the tract |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.71 | That any harm should stain so fair a show! | That any harme should staine so faire a shew. |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.29 | To stain the temper of my knightly sword. | To staine the temper of my Knightly sword. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.207 | And I'll corrupt her manners, stain her beauty, | And Ile corrupt her Manners, staine her Beauty, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iii.71 | Lo, here upon thy cheek the stain doth sit | Lo here vpon thy cheeke the staine doth sit, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.171 | Giving our holy virgins to the stain | Giuing our holy Virgins to the staine |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.119 | Andronicus, stain not thy tomb with blood. | Andronicus, staine not thy Tombe with blood. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.211 | And stain the sun with fog, as sometime clouds | And staine the Sun with fogge as somtime cloudes, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.26 | stain of it. He is melancholy without cause, and merry | staine of it. He is melancholy without cause, and merry |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.ii.19 | Here's such ado to make no stain a stain | Heere's such a-doe, to make no staine, a staine, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.iii.82 | You'll mar it if you kiss it; stain your own | You'le marre it, if you kisse it; stayne your owne |