| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL II.v.50 | A stubborn will to please: | A stubborne will to please, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iii.70 | Bow, stubborn knees, and, heart with strings of steel, | Bow stubborne knees, and heart with strings of Steele, |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.224 | when he got me; therefore was I created with a stubborn | when hee got me, therefore was I created with a stubborne |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.360 | In Ireland have I seen this stubborn Cade | In Ireland haue I seene this stubborne Cade |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.251 | Free from a stubborn opposite intent, | Free from a stubborne opposite intent, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.122 | Stubborn to justice, apt to accuse it, and | Stubborne to Iustice, apt to accuse it, and |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.i.163 | So much they love it; but to stubborn spirits | So much they loue it. But to stubborne Spirits, |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.346 | How to live better. For your stubborn answer | How to liue better. For your stubborne answer |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iii.23 | But stop their mouths with stubborn bits and spur 'em | But stop their mouthes with stubborn Bits & spurre'em, |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.35 | You bear too stubborn and too strange a hand | You beare too stubborne, and too strange a hand |
| 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 IV.ii.9 | It will repent them of their stubborn will. – | It will repent them of their stubborne will, |
| King John | KJ V.i.18 | Upon your stubborn usage of the Pope; | Vpon your stubborne vsage of the Pope: |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.124 | You stubborn ancient knave, you reverend braggart, | You stubborne ancient Knaue, you reuerent Bragart, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.53 | I fear these stubborn lines lack power to move. | I feare these stubborn lines lack power to moue. |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.477 | Sirrah, thou art said to have a stubborn soul, | Sirha, thou art said to haue a stubborne soule |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.32 | From stubborn Turks and Tartars never trained | From stubborne Turkes and Tarters neuer traind |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.38 | To stubborn harshness. And, my gracious Duke, | To stubborne harshnesse. And my gracious Duke, |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.225 | new fortunes with this more stubborn and boisterous | new Fortunes, with this more stubborne, and boystrous |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.55 | As is the sepulchre in stubborn Jewry | As is the sepulcher in stubborne Iury |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.i.147 | To help unarm our Hector; his stubborn buckles, | To helpe vnarme our Hector: his stubborne Buckles, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.ii.134 | To stubborn critics, apt, without a theme | To stubborne Criticks, apt without a theame |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.68 | appear stubborn to him; for she incites me to that in | appeare stubborne to him: for she incites me to that in |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.359 | Upon some stubborn and uncourteous parts | Vpon some stubborne and vncourteous parts |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.69 | Proud, disobedient, stubborn, lacking duty; | Prowd, disobedient, stubborne, lacking duty, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.13 | The all-feared gods, bow down your stubborn bodies. | (The all feard gods) bow downe your stubborne bodies, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.796 | him, give him gold; and though authority be a stubborn | him, giue him Gold; and though Authoritie be a stubborne |