| AW II.i.120 | [King to Helena] we must not / So stain our judgement or corrupt our hope |
| Ham IV.iv.57 | [Hamlet alone] How stand I then, / That have a father killed, a mother stained |
| KJ IV.ii.6 | [Pembroke to King John] The faiths of men ne'er stained with revolt |
| Sonn.109.11 | [of his nature] That it could so preposterously be staine, / To leave for nothing all thy sum of good |