| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.140 | by a piece of tender air: and when from a stately | by a peece of tender Ayre: And when from a stately |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.439 | stately cedar shall be lopped branches, which, | stately Cedar shall be lopt branches,which |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.202 | Goes slow and stately by them. Thrice he walked | Goes slow and stately: By them thrice he walkt, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.21 | We with our stately presence glorify, | We with our stately presence glorifie, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.ii.13 | Shall lay your stately and air-braving towers, | Shall lay your stately, and ayre-brauing Towers, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.vii.72 | Here's a silly stately style indeed! | Heere's a silly stately stile indeede: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.vii.43 | With stately triumphs, mirthful comic shows, | With stately Triumphes, mirthfull Comicke shewes, |
| Richard II | R2 V.ii.10 | With slow but stately pace kept on his course, | With slow, but stately pace, kept on his course: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.319 | That like the stately Phoebe 'mongst her nymphs | That like the stately Thebe mong'st her Nimphs |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.60 | Our Empress' shame, and stately Rome's disgrace: | Our Empresse shame, and stately Romes disgrace, |