| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.i.88 | Whilst I at home starve for a merry look. | Whil'st I at home starue for a merrie looke: |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.iii.112 | Better it is to die, better to starve, | Better it is to dye, better to sterue, |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.ii.51 | And so shall starve with feeding. (To Virgilia) Come, let's go. | And so shall sterue with Feeding: Come, let's go, |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.v.165 | starve. I will fetch my gold, and have our two | sterue: I will fetch my Gold, and haue our two |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.88 | No, on the barren mountains let him starve. | No: on the barren Mountaine let him sterue: |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.157 | That wished him on the barren mountains starve. | That wish'd him on the barren Mountaines staru'd. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.i.28 | are quite starved. What, Ostler! A plague on thee, hast | are quite starued. What Ostler? A plague on thee, hast |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.i.70 | starveling. Tut, there are other Troyans that thou | Starueling. Tut, there are other Troians that yu |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.ii.20 | A plague upon you both! Bardolph! Peto! I'll starve ere | a Plague vpon you both. Bardolph, Peto: Ile starue ere |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.240 | 'Sblood, you starveling, you elf-skin, you dried | Away you Starueling, you Elfe-skin, you dried |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.293 | old men are to this vice of lying! This same starved | old men are to this vice of Lying? This same staru'd |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.iv.27 | Ay, come, you starved bloodhound. | Yes, come you staru'd Blood-hound. |
| Henry V | H5 IV.ii.14 | Do but behold yon poor and starved band, | Doe but behold yond poore and starued Band, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.v.16 | Go, go, cheer up thy hungry-starved men; | Goe, goe, cheare vp thy hungry-starued men, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.ii.48 | Your grace may starve, perhaps, before that time. | Your Grace may starue (perhaps) before that time. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.133 | She should have stayed in France, and starved in France, | She should haue staid in France, and steru'd in France |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.227 | Ready to starve, and dare not touch his own. | Ready to sterue, and dare not touch his owne. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.343 | I fear me you but warm the starved snake, | I feare me, you but warme the starued Snake, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.5 | Or lambs pursued by hunger-starved wolves. | Or Lambes pursu'd by hunger-starued Wolues. |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iii.132 | By all that's holy, he had better starve | By all that's holy, he had better starue, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.180 | The man that starves the sweetness of a feast, | The man that starues the sweetnes of a feast, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.vi.37 | Some twenty naked starvelings with small flints | Some twentie naked staruelings with small flints, |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.25 | Ere they shall make us weep. We'll see 'em starved first. | Ere they shall make vs weepe? / Weele seee'm staru'd first: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.11 | When she did starve the general world beside, | When she did starue the generall world beside, |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iii.13 | Copperspur, and Master Starve-lackey, the rapier and | Copperspurre, and M Starue-Lackey the Rapier and |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.ii.6 | too much as they that starve with nothing. It is no mean | too much, as they that starue with nothing; it is no smal |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.138 | Are wolvish, bloody, starved, and ravenous. | Are Woluish, bloody, steru'd, and rauenous. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.295.1 | Of starved people. | Of starued people. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.222 | Keep word, Lysander. We must starve our sight | Keepe word Lysander we must starue our sight, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.ii.1.3 | and Snout the tinker, and Starveling the tailor | Snout the Tinker, and Starueling the Taylor. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.ii.54 | Robin Starveling, the tailor? | Robin Starueling the Taylor. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.ii.56 | Robin Starveling, you must play Thisbe's | Robin Starueling, you must play Thisbies |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.1.1 | Enter the clowns: Bottom, Quince, Snout, Starveling, | Enter the Clownes. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.99 | Exeunt Quince, Snug, Flute, Snout, and Starveling | The Clownes all Exit. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.202 | Starveling! God's my life – stolen hence and left me | Starueling? Gods my life! Stolne hence, and left me |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.ii.1 | Enter Quince, Flute, Snout, and Starveling | Enter Quince, Flute, Thisbie, Snout, and Starueling. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.126.2 | Wall, Starveling as Moonshine, and Snug as Lion; | Enter Pyramus and Thisby, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.150 | Exeunt Quince, Bottom, Flute, Snug, and Starveling | Exit all but Wall. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.215.1 | Enter Snug as Lion and Starveling as Moonshine | Enter Lyon and Moone-shine. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.297 | Exit Starveling as Moonshine | |
| Pericles | Per I.iv.38 | They are now starved for want of exercise. | They are now staru'de for want of exercise, |
| Pericles | Per I.iv.96 | And give them life whom hunger starved half dead. | And giue them life, whom hunger-staru'd halfe dead. |
| Pericles | Per II.i.68 | Nay then, thou wilt starve, sure, | Nay then thou wilt starue sure: |
| Pericles | Per V.i.112 | Who starves the ears she feeds, and makes them hungry | Who starues the eares shee feedes, and makes them hungrie, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.219 | For beauty, starved with her severity, | For beauty steru'd with her seuerity, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.193 | An you be not, hang, beg, starve, die in the streets, | And you be not, hang, beg, straue, die in the streets, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.i.70 | Need and oppression starveth in thy eyes. | Need and opression starueth in thy eyes, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.9 | Am starved for meat, giddy for lack of sleep, | Am staru'd for meate, giddie for lacke of sleepe: |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.252 | Aches contract and starve your supple joints! | Aches contract, and sterue your supple ioynts: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.250 | As frozen water to a starved snake. | As frozen water to a starued snake. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.i.95 | It is too starved a subject for my sword. | It is too staru'd a subiect for my Sword, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.x.2 | Never go home; here starve we out the night. | Neuer goe home; here starue we out the night. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.iv.151 | The air hath starved the roses in her cheeks | The ayre hath staru'd the roses in her cheekes, |