| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.iv.33 | Now like a man of steel. You that will fight, | Now like a man of Steele, you that will fight, |
| As You Like It | AYL V.i.54 | steel; I will bandy with thee in faction; I will o'errun | steele: I will bandy with thee in faction, I will ore-run |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.ii.153 | And I think if my breast had not been made of faith, and my heart of steel, | And I thinke, if my brest had not beene made of faith, and my heart of steele, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.ii.34 | One whose hard heart is buttoned up with steel, |
On whose hard heart is button'd vp with steele: |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.ix.44 | Made all of false-faced soothing. When steel grows | Made all of false-fac'd soothing: / When Steele growes |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.vi.152 | Trail your steel pikes. Though in this city he | Traile your steele Pikes. Though in this City hee |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.iii.9 | be not hurt. It is a throughfare for steel, if it be not | bee not hurt. It is a through-fare for Steele if it be not |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.iii.11 | His steel was in debt, it went o'th' backside | His Steele was in debt, it went o'th'Backe-side |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iii.63 | Grapple them unto thy soul with hoops of steel. | Grapple them to thy Soule, with hoopes of Steele: |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iv.52 | That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel, | That thou dead Coarse againe in compleat steele, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iii.70 | Bow, stubborn knees, and, heart with strings of steel, | Bow stubborne knees, and heart with strings of Steele, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.i.13 | To crush our old limbs in ungentle steel. | To crush our old limbes in vngentle Steele: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.146 | A scaly gauntlet now with joints of steel | A scalie Gauntlet now, with ioynts of Steele |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iii.54 | Then join you with them like a rib of steel, | Then ioyne you with them, like a Ribbe of Steele, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.119 | Their eyes of fire sparkling through sights of steel, | Their eyes of fire, sparkling through sights of Steele, |
| Henry V | H5 III.vii.146 | great meals of beef, and iron and steel; they will eat | great Meales of Beefe, and Iron and Steele; they will eate |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.282 | O God of battles, steel my soldiers' hearts; | O God of Battailes, steele my Souldiers hearts, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iv.51 | That they supposed I could rend bars of steel | That they suppos'd I could rend Barres of Steele, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.ii.11 | Lean famine, quartering steel, and climbing fire; | Leane Famine, quartering Steele, and climbing Fire, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.ii.51 | Turn on the bloody hounds with heads of steel | Turne on the bloody Hounds with heads of Steele, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.331 | Now, York, or never, steel thy fearful thoughts, | Now Yorke, or neuer, steele thy fearfull thoughts, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.234 | And he but naked, though locked up in steel, | And he but naked, though lockt vp in Steele, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.x.54 | ever I heard! Steel, if thou turn the edge, or cut not | euer I heard. Steele, if thou turne the edge, or cut not |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.58 | The hope thereof makes Clifford mourn in steel. | The hope thereof, makes Clifford mourne in Steele. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.159 | Shall we go throw away our coats of steel, | Shall we go throw away our Coates of Steele, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.200 | Then Clifford, were thy heart as hard as steel, | Then Clifford, were thy heart as hard as Steele, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.ii.41 | Successful fortune, steel thy melting heart | Successefull Fortune steele thy melting heart, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.v.132 | And bloody steel grasped in their ireful hands, | And bloody steele graspt in their yrefull hands |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.i.76 | And as the long divorce of steel falls on me, | And as the long diuorce of Steele fals on me, |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.121 | To kindle cowards and to steel with valour | To kindle Cowards, and to steele with valour |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.ii.178 | And as he plucked his cursed steel away, | And as he pluck'd his cursed Steele away: |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.iii.76 | For piercing steel and darts envenomed | For piercing Steele, and Darts inuenomed, |
| King Edward III | E3 I.i.49 | Able to yoke their stubborn necks with steel | Able to yoak their stubburne necks with steele, |
| King Edward III | E3 I.i.108 | (drawing his sword) Lorraine, behold the sharpness of this steel. | Lorraine behold the sharpnes of this steele: |
| King Edward III | E3 II.ii.96 | Give me an armour of eternal steel! | Giue me an Armor of eternall steele, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iv.82 | My tongue is made of steel, and it shall beg | My tongue is made of steele, and it shall beg |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.vi.23 | Myself, whose spirit is steel to their dull lead, | My selfe whose spirit is steele to their dull lead, |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.37 | And after, feel the stroke of quartering steel. | And after feele the stroake of quartering steele, |
| King John | KJ II.i.352 | O, now doth death line his dead chaps with steel; | Oh now doth death line his dead chaps with steele, |
| Macbeth | Mac I.ii.17 | Disdaining fortune, with his brandished steel, | Disdayning Fortune, with his brandisht Steele, |
| Macbeth | Mac III.ii.24 | Treason has done his worst. Nor steel, nor poison, | Treason ha's done his worst: nor Steele, nor Poyson, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iii.71 | And by my side wear steel? Then Lucifer take all! | And by my side weare Steele? then Lucifer take all. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iii.86.1 | With wit or steel? | With wit, or Steele? |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.197 | Is true as steel. Leave you your power to draw, | Is true as steele. Leaue you your power to draw, |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.228 | Hath made the flinty and steel couch of war | Hath made the flinty and Steele Coach of Warre |
| Pericles | Per II.i.155 | By your furtherance I am clothed in steel, | By your furtherance I am cloth'd in Steele, |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.74 | And with thy blessings steel my lance's point | And with thy blessings steele my Lances point, |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.59 | To lift shrewd steel against our golden crown, | To lift shrewd Steele against our Golden Crowne, |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.111 | With hard bright steel, and hearts harder than steel. | With hard bright Steele, and hearts harder then Steele: |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.50 | And never brandish more revengeful steel | And neuer brandish more reuengefull Steele, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.i.60 | Were red-hot steel, to sear me to the brains! | Were red hot Steele, to seare me to the Braines, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.82 | Profaners of this neighbour-stained steel, – | Prophaners of this Neighbor-stained Steele, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.194 | Warrant thee my man's as true as steel. | Warrant thee my man as true as steele. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.i.115 | And in my temper softened valour's steel! | And in my temper softned Valours steele. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.i.159 | With piercing steel at bold Mercutio's breast; | With Peircing steele at bold Mercutio's breast, |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.288 | Whom I with this obedient steel, three inches of it, | Whom I with this obedient steele (three inches of it) |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.i.102 | And with a gad of steel will write these words, | And with a Gad of steele will write these words, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iii.48 | But metal, Marcus, steel to the very back, | But mettall Marcus, steele to the very backe, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.87 | My heart is not compact of flint nor steel, | My heart is not compact of flint nor steele, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.111 | Sheathing the steel in my advent'rous body. | Sheathing the steele in my aduentrous body. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.177 | Or give me ribs of steel; I shall split all | Or, giue me ribs of Steele, I shall split all |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.353 | To steel a strong opinion to themselves? – | To steele a strong opinion to themselues, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.i.149 | Shall more obey than to the edge of steel | Shall more obey then to the edge of Steele, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.175 | As true as steel, as plantage to the moon, | As true as steele, as plantage to the Moone: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.121 | The voice again; or, like a gate of steel | The voyce againe; or like a gate of steele, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.195 | But this thy countenance, still locked in steel, | But this thy countenance (still lockt in steele) |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iii.5 | More sharp than filed steel, did spur me forth, | (More sharpe then filed steele) did spurre me forth, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.i.139 | token but stones, for she's as hard as steel. | token but stones, for she's as hard as steele. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.ii.79 | Whose golden touch could soften steel and stones, | Whose golden touch could soften steele and stones; |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.228 | Pins and poking-sticks of steel; | Pins, and poaking-stickes of steele. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.720 | stamped coin, not stabbing steel; therefore they do not | stamped Coyne, not stabbing Steele, therefore they doe not |