| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.ii.101 | This is stiff news – hath with his Parthian force | (this is stiffe-newes) / Hath with his Parthian Force |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.ii.15 | For with long travel I am stiff and weary. | For with long trauaile I am stiffe and wearie. |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.159 | But make you ready your stiff bats and clubs. | But make you ready your stiffe bats and clubs, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.239.1 | What, art thou stiff? Stand'st out? | What art thou stiffe? Stand'st out? |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iii.32 | With your stiff age; but unto us it is | With your stiffe Age; but vnto vs, it is |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.iii.40 | Many a nobleman lies stark and stiff | Many a Nobleman lies starke and stiffe |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.ii.42 | Their arms are set like clocks, stiff to strike on; | Their Armes are set, like Clocks, still to strike on; |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.16 | And passeth by with stiff unbowed knee, | And passeth by with stiffe vnbowed Knee, |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.i.72 | As the shrouds make at sea in a stiff tempest, | As the shrowdes make at Sea, in a stiffe Tempest, |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.278 | The King is mad; how stiff is my vile sense, | The King is mad: / How stiffe is my vilde sense |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.115 | In stiff unwieldy arms against thy crown. | In stiffe vnwieldie Armes: against thy Crowne |
| 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, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.26 | Her blood is settled, and her joints are stiff. | Her blood is setled and her ioynts are stiffe: |