| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.194 | Now he'll outstare the lightning. To be furious | Now hee'l out-stare the Lightning, to be furious |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.5 | That makes thee stare thus? Wherefore breaks that sigh | That makes thee stare thus? Wherefore breaks that sigh |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.371 | That makes him gasp, and stare, and catch the air, | That makes him gaspe, and stare, and catch the aire, |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.129.1 | I'll follow, and outstare him. | Ile follow, and out-stare him. |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.iii.2 | Why are you breathless? and why stare you so? | Why are you breathlesse, and why stare you so? |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.242 | You stared upon me with ungentle looks. | You star'd vpon me, with vngentle lookes. |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.97 | Men, wives, and children stare, cry out, and run, | Men, Wiues, and Children, stare, cry out, and run, |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.40 | Shall I be frighted when a madman stares? | Shall I be frighted, when a Madman stares? |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.278 | That mak'st my blood cold, and my hair to stare? | That mak'st my blood cold, and my haire to stare? |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.108 | When I do stare see how the subject quakes. | When I do stare, see how the Subiect quakes. |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.101 | Upon their pillows; they stared and were distracted; | Vpon their Pillowes: they star'd, and were distracted, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.i.27 | I would o'erstare the sternest eyes that look, | I would ore-stare the sternest eies that looke: |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.266 | stare him out of his wits. I will awe him with my cudgel; | stare him out of his wits: I will awe-him with my cudgell: |
| Othello | Oth V.i.107 | Nay, if you stare, we shall hear more anon. | Nay, if you stare, we shall heare more anon. |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.187 | Nay, stare not masters: it is true indeed. | Nay stare not Masters, / It is true indeede. |
| Richard II | R2 V.iii.24 | What means our cousin, that he stares and looks so wildly? | What meanes our Cosin, that hee stares / And lookes so wildely? |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.26 | Stared each on other, and looked deadly pale. | Star'd each on other, and look'd deadly pale: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.ii.227 | Nay, look not big, nor stamp, nor stare, nor fret, | Nay, looke not big, nor stampe, nor stare, nor fret, |
| The Tempest | Tem III.iii.96 | In this strange stare? | In this strange stare? |