| 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 |
| 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, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.i.30 | How if your husband start some otherwhere? | How if your husband start some other where? |
| 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 III.ii.125 | Base inclination, and the start of spleen, | Base Inclination, and the start of Spleene, |
| Henry V | H5 III.i.32 | Straining upon the start. The game's afoot! | Straying vpon the Start. The Game's afoot: |
| 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 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.viii.42 | Should make a start o'er seas and vanquish you? | Should make a start ore-seas, and vanquish 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.ii.47 | To start the tender Cupid in my bosom? | To start the tender Cupid in my bosome, |
| 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 John | KJ V.ii.167 | And so shall you, being beaten. Do but start | And so shall you, being beaten: Do but start |
| 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 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.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 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 IV.i.138.2 | lovers start up | they all start vp. |
| 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. |
| Richard III | R3 II.i.82.1 | They all start | They all start. |
| Richard III | R3 III.v.7 | Tremble and start at wagging of a straw; | Tremble and start at wagging of a Straw: |
| 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 |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.57 | Seven of my people, with an obedient start, | Seauen of my people with an obedient start, |
| 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 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 |