| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.v.65 | Thou shalt be whipped with wire and stewed in brine, | Thou shalt be whipt with Wyer, and stew'd in brine, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.94 | Stewed in corruption, honeying and making love | Stew'd in Corruption; honying and making loue |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.iii.111 | There's no more faith in thee than in a stewed | There's no more faith in thee then a stu'de |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.142 | Hang him, rogue, he lives upon mouldy stewed prunes | hang him Rogue, hee liues vpon mouldie stew'd-Pruines, |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.30 | Stewed in his haste, half breathless, panting forth | Stew'd in his haste, halfe breathlesse, painting forth |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.87 | saving your honour's reverence – for stewed prunes. | (sauing your honors reuerence) for stewd prewyns; |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.265 | a master of fence – three veneys for a dish of stewed | a Master of Fence (three veneys for a dish of stew'd |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.v.108 | of this bath, when I was more than half stewed in | of this Bath (when I was more then halfe stew'd in |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.i.41 | Sodden business! There's a stewed | Sodden businesse, there's a stewed |