| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.59 | Lay me stark nak'd and let the waterflies | Lay me starke-nak'd, and let the water-Flies |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.i.59 | But sure he is stark mad. | But sure he is starke mad: |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.282 | I think you are all mated, or stark mad. | I thinke you are all mated, or starke mad. |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.209.2 | Stark, as you see: | Starke, as you see: |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.iii.40 | Many a nobleman lies stark and stiff | Many a Nobleman lies starke and stiffe |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.i.103 | Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death. | Shall stiffe and starke, and cold appeare like death, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.69 | That wench is stark mad or wonderful froward. | That wench is starke mad, or wonderfull froward. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.ii.53 | past cure of the fives, stark spoiled with the staggers, | past cure of the Fiues, starke spoyl'd with the Staggers, |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.245 | sword stark naked; for meddle you must, that's certain, | sword starke naked: for meddle you must that's certain, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.181 | And then run mad indeed, stark mad! For all | And then run mad indeed: starke-mad: for all |