| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.ii.8 | As you are now; for you are cold and stern, | As you are now: for you are cold and sterne, |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.110 | Of stern commandment. But whate'er you are | Of sterne command'ment. But what ere you are |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.10 | By the stern brow and waspish action | By the sterne brow, and waspish action |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.i.24 | I have seen thee stern, and thou hast oft beheld | I haue seene the Sterne, and thou hast oft beheld |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iii.36 | Attend you here the door of our stern daughter? | Attend you here the doore of our stern daughter |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.130 | My stern effects. Then what I have to do | My sterne effects: then what I haue to do, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 induction.14 | Is thought with child by the stern tyrant War, | Is thought with childe, by the sterne Tyrant, Warre, |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.61 | To swearing and stern looks, diffused attire, | To Swearing, and sterne Lookes, defus'd Attyre, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.177 | And sit at chiefest stern of public weal. | And sit at chiefest Sterne of publique Weale. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.ii.62 | Question her proudly, let thy looks be stern; | Question her prowdly, let thy Lookes be sterne, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.126 | Why look you still so stern and tragical? | Why looke you still so sterne, and tragicall? |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.vii.8 | Rough deeds of rage and stern impatience; | Rough deeds of Rage, and sterne Impatience: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.91 | Or turn our stern upon a dreadful rock. | Or turne our Sterne vpon a dreadfull Rocke: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.213 | Some stern untutored churl, and noble stock | Some sterne vntutur'd Churle; and Noble Stock |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.i.123 | Suffolk's imperial tongue is stern and rough, | Suffolkes Imperiall tongue is sterne and rough: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.239 | Stern Falconbridge commands the narrow seas; | Sterne Falconbridge commands the Narrow Seas, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.142 | Thou stern, obdurate, flinty, rough, remorseless. | Thou, sterne, obdurate, flintie, rough, remorselesse. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.103 | Is by the stern Lord Clifford done to death. | Is by the sterne Lord Clifford done to death. |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.422 | When the stern dame envenometh the dug. | When the sterne dame inuennometh the Dug: |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.34 | The stern Polonian, and the warlike Dane, | The sterne Polonian and the warlike Dane: |
| King John | KJ IV.i.87 | He hath a stern look, but a gentle heart. | He hath a sterne looke, but a gentle heart: |
| King John | KJ V.ii.23 | Of stern injustice and confused wrong. | Of sterne Iniustice, and confused wrong: |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.66.1 | Would not have been so stern. | Would not haue beene so sterne. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.59 | Pierced through the heart with your stern cruelty. | Pierst through the heart with your stearne cruelty: |
| Pericles | Per IV.i.64 | From stem to stern. The boatswain whistles, and | from sterne to sterne, the Boatswaine whistles, and |
| Richard II | R2 I.ii.32 | Teaching stern murder how to butcher thee. | Teaching sterne murther how to butcher thee: |
| Richard III | R3 I.i.7 | Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings, | Our sterne Alarums chang'd to merry Meetings; |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.44 | That I, forsooth, am stern, and love them not? | Thar I (forsooth) am sterne, and loue them not? |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.198 | Murder, stern murder, in the direst degree, | Murther, sterne murther, in the dyr'st degree, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iv.16 | Speak, gentle niece, what stern ungentle hands | Speake gentle Neece, what sterne vngentle hands |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.202 | More stern and bloody than the Centaurs' feast. | More sterne and bloody then the Centaures Feast. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.79 | Nearer a brown than black, stern and yet noble, | Nearer a browne, than blacke; sterne, and yet noble, |