| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.iv.62 | The stale of horses and the gilded puddle | The stale of Horses, and the gilded Puddle |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.240 | Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale | Age cannot wither her, nor custome stale |
| As You Like It | AYL II.iv.57 | And mine, but it grows something stale with me. | And mine, but it growes something stale with mee. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.i.101 | And feeds from home. Poor I am but his stale. | And feedes from home; poore I am but his stale. |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.52 | Poor I am stale, a garment out of fashion, | Poore I am stale, a Garment out of fashion, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.133 | How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable | How weary, stale, flat, and vnprofitable |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.ii.41 | So stale and cheap to vulgar company, | So stale and cheape to vulgar Company; |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.127 | rascal, you basket-hilt stale juggler, you! Since when, | Rascall, you Basket-hilt stale Iugler, you. Since when, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.260 | Had he none else to make a stale but me? | Had he none else to make a stale but me? |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.73 | To stale with ordinary oaths my love | To stale with ordinary Oathes my loue |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.13 | Than doth within a dull, stale, tired bed | Then doth within a dull stale tyred bed |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.v.53 | A proverb never stale in thrifty mind. | A prouerbe neuer stale in thriftie minde. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.iii.27 | stale? Is he dead? | Stale? is he dead? |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.ii.23 | hold up – to a contaminated stale, such a one as Hero. | hold vp, to a contaminated stale, such a one as Hero. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.63 | To link my dear friend to a common stale. | To linke my deare friend to a common stale. |
| Richard II | R2 V.v.103 | Patience is stale, and I am weary of it. | Patience is stale, and I am weary of it. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.130 | that is something stale and hoar ere it be spent. | that is something stale and hoare ere it be spent. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.58 | To make a stale of me amongst these mates? | To make a stale of me amongst these mates? |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.i.88 | To cast thy wandering eyes on every stale, | To cast thy wandring eyes on euery stale: |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.187.1 | For stale to catch these thieves. | For stale to catch these theeues. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.307 | Was none in Rome to make a stale | Was none in Rome to make a stale |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.80 | Wrinkles Apollo's, and makes stale the morning. | Wrinkles Apolloes, and makes stale the morning. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.189 | Must not so stale his palm, nobly acquired, | Must not so staule his Palme, nobly acquir'd, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.iv.10 | rascals – that stale old mouse-eaten dry cheese, Nestor, | rascals; that stole old Mouse-eaten dry cheese, Nestor: |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.85 | Stale gravity to dance; the polled bachelor, | Stale gravitie to daunce, the pould Bachelour |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iv.11 | Many and stale; that sure shall please the gods | Many and stale: that sure shall please the gods |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.i.13 | To th' freshest things now reigning, and make stale | To th' freshest things now reigning, and make stale |