| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.v.25.1 | That long time have been barren. | That long time haue bin barren. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.i.91 | Are my discourses dull? barren my wit? | Are my discourses dull? Barren my wit, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.42 | If I must not, I need not be barren of | If I must not, I neede not be barren of |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.162 | For beauty, that made barren the swelled boast | For Beauty, that made barren the swell'd boast |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.40 | some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too, though | some quantitie of barren Spectators to laugh too, though |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.88 | No, on the barren mountains let him starve. | No: on the barren Mountaine let him sterue: |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.157 | That wished him on the barren mountains starve. | That wish'd him on the barren Mountaines staru'd. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.ii.14 | Such barren pleasures, rude society, | Such barren pleasures, rude societie, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.iii.7 | Barren, barren, barren; beggars all, beggars | Barren, barren, barren: Beggers all, beggers |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.iv.3 | Barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold; | Barren Winter, with his wrathfull nipping Cold; |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.8 | The barren, touched in this holy chase, | The Barren touched in this holy chace, |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.i.36 | A barren-spirited fellow; one that feeds | A barren spirited Fellow; one that feeds |
| King Edward III | E3 I.ii.14 | Even in the barren, bleak, and fruitless air. | Euen in the barraine, bleake and fruitlesse aire, |
| King Edward III | E3 I.ii.151 | Seems barren, sere, unfertile, fruitless, dry; | Seemes barrayne, sere, vnfertill, fructles dry, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.55 | Or else, inhabiting some barren soil | Or else inhabiting some barraine soile, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.47 | O, these are barren tasks, too hard to keep, | O, these are barren taskes, too hard to keepe, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.ii.28 | And such barren plants are set before us that we thankful should be – | and such barren plants are set before vs, that we thankfull should be: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.301 | And therefore, finding barren practisers, | And therefore finding barraine practizers, |
| Macbeth | Mac III.i.61 | And put a barren sceptre in my grip, | And put a barren Scepter in my Gripe, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.iii.131 | A breed for barren metal of his friend? | A breede of barraine mettall of his friend? |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.72 | To live a barren sister all your life, | To liue a barren sister all your life, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.13 | The shallowest thickskin of that barren sort, | The shallowest thick-skin of that barren sort, |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.168 | And dull unfeeling barren ignorance | And dull, vnfeeling, barren ignorance, |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.153 | And that small model of the barren earth | And that small Modell of the barren Earth, |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.84 | And we are barren and bereft of friends, | And we are barren, and bereft of Friends: |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.67 | I am not barren to bring forth complaints. | I am not barren to bring forth complaints: |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.394 | Old barren plants, to wail it with their age. | Old barren Plants, to waile it with their Age. |
| The Tempest | Tem I.i.62 | for an acre of barren ground. Long heath, brown furze, | for an Acre of barren ground: Long heath, Browne firrs, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.338 | The fresh springs, brine-pits, barren place and fertile. | The fresh Springs, Brine-pits; barren place and fertill, |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.19 | To make this contract grow; but barren hate, | To make this contract grow; but barraine hate, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.93 | A barren detested vale, you see it is: | A barren, detested vale you see it is. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.327 | But that Achilles, were his brain as barren | But that Achilles, were his braine as barren |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.iii.76 | now I let go your hand, I am barren. | now I let go your hand, I am barren. |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.79 | barren rascal. I saw him put down the other day with an | barren rascall: I saw him put down the other day, with an |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.373 | barren rascal, an you smile not, he's gagged ’? And thus | barren rascall, and you smile not he's gag'd: and thus |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.210 | Upon a barren mountain, and still winter | Vpon a barren Mountaine, and still Winter |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.84 | Our rustic garden's barren, and I care not | Our rusticke Gardens barren, and I care not |