| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.9 | would stir it up where it wanted, rather than lack it | would stirre it vp where it wanted rather then lack it |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.i.43.2 | But stirred by Cleopatra. | But stirr'd by Cleopatra. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.iv.82 | Of stirs abroad, I shall beseech you, sir, | Of stirres abroad, I shall beseech you Sir |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.i.36 | The higher our opinion, that our stirring | The higher our Opinion, that our stirring |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.13 | But pray you stir no embers up. Here comes | but pray you stirre / No Embers vp. Heere comes |
| As You Like It | AYL I.i.152 | Farewell, good Charles. Now will I stir this | Farewell good Charles. Now will I stirre this |
| As You Like It | AYL I.iii.112.1 | And never stir assailants. | And neuer stir assailants. |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.117 | When that the sleeping man should stir; for 'tis | When that the sleeping man should stirre; for 'tis |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.i.99 | Now in the stirring passage of the day, | Now in the stirring passage of the day, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.102 | Be patient, for I will not let him stir | Be patient, for I will not let him stirre, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.167 | I will determine this before I stir. | I will determine this before I stirre. |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iii.11 | to hang by th' wall, if renown made it not stir – | to hang by th' wall, if renowne made it not stirre, |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.53 | For which the people stir. If you will pass | For which the People stirre: if you will passe |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.ii.119 | Who bowed but in my stirrup, bend like his | Who bow'd but in my Stirrop, bend like his |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.v.225 | Why, then we shall have a stirring | Why then wee shall haue a stirring |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.iv.12 | Still waving, as the fits and stirs of's mind | Still wauing, as the fits and stirres of's mind |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.v.77 | Either your unparagoned mistress is dead, or she's | Either your vnparagon'd Mistirs is dead, or she's |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.38.2 | I could not stir him: | I could not stirre him: |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.337 | The senate hath stirred up the confiners | The Senate hath stirr'd vp the Confiners, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.112 | Express impatience, lest you stir up mine. | Expresse Impatience, least you stirre vp mine: |
| Hamlet | Ham I.i.10.2 | Not a mouse stirring. | Not a Mouse stirring. |
| Hamlet | Ham I.i.162 | And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad; | And then (they say) no Spirit can walke abroad, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.34 | Wouldst thou not stir in this. Now, Hamlet, hear. | Would'st thou not stirre in this. Now Hamlet heare: |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.i.9 | Behind the arras hearing something stir, | Behinde the Arras, hearing something stirre, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.iv.54 | Is not to stir without great argument, | |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.9.1 | You mainly were stirred up. | You mainly were stirr'd vp? |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.239 | Whose motive in this case should stir me most | Whose motiue in this case should stirre me most |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.2 | Unapt to stir at these indignities, | Vnapt to stirre at these indignities, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.195 | And let them grapple. O, the blood more stirs | And let them grapple: The blood more stirres |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.ii.98 | arrant cowards there's no equity stirring. There's no | arrand Cowards, there's no equity stirring. There's no |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iii.59 | And thus hath so bestirred thee in thy sleep, | And thus hath so bestirr'd thee in thy sleepe, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iii.84 | I fear my brother Mortimer doth stir | I feare my Brother Mortimer doth stirre |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.ii.46 | By being seldom seen, I could not stir | By being seldome seene, I could not stirre, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.iii.5 | Good cousin, be advised, stir not tonight. | Cousin be aduis'd, stirre not to night. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.2 | hand, sir, give me your hand, sir! An early stirrer, by | Hand, Sir; giue mee your Hand, Sir: an early stirrer, by |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iii.117 | sterile, and bare land manured, husbanded, and tilled, | stirrill, and bare Land, manured, husbanded, and tyll'd, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.33 | There lies a downy feather which stirs not; | There lyes a dowlney feather, which stirres not: |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.6 | For our bad neighbour makes us early stirrers, | For our bad Neighbour makes vs early stirrers, |
| Henry V | H5 V.i.65 | All hell shall stir for this! | All hell shall stirre for this. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iv.55 | And if I did but stir out of my bed, | And if I did but stirre out of my Bed, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iv.98 | What stir is this? What tumult's in the heavens? | What stirre is this? what tumult's in the Heauens? |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.iv.18 | No, stir not for your lives; let her pass by. | No, stirre not for your liues, let her passe by. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.iv.49 | Nor stir at nothing till the axe of death | Nor stirre at nothing, till the Axe of Death |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.163 | And with your best endeavour have stirred up | And with your best endeuour haue stirr'd vp |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.349 | I will stir up in England some black storm | I will stirre vp in England some black Storme, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.i.53 | Hast thou not kissed thy hand and held my stirrup? | Hast thou not kist thy hand, and held my stirrop? |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.47 | Dares stir a wing if Warwick shake his bells. | Dares stirre a Wing, if Warwick shake his Bells. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.100 | As shall revenge his death before I stir. | As shall reuenge his death, before I stirre. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.viii.12 | Shalt stir up in Suffolk, Norfolk, and in Kent, | Shalt stirre vp in Suffolke, Norfolke, and in Kent, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.i.96 | As I will meet thee, if thou stir abroad – | (As I will meet thee, if thou stirre abroad) |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.v.15 | For bearing arms, for stirring up my subjects, | For bearing Armes, for stirring vp my Subiects, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.v.64 | The thought of them would have stirred up remorse. | The thought of them would haue stirr'd vp remorse, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.i.32 | His knell rung out, his judgement, he was stirred | His Knell rung out, his Iudgement, he was stir'd |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.164 | It to be stirred, but oft have hindered, oft, | It to be stir'd; but oft haue hindred, oft |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.218 | I know 'twill stir him strongly; yet I know | I know 'twill stirre him strongly; yet I know |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.417 | Some little memory of me will stir him – | Some little memory of me, will stirre him |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iii.39 | A man that more detests, more stirs against, | A man that more detests, more stirres against, |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iv.16 | We may as well push against Paul's as stir 'em. | We may as well push against Powles as stirre 'em. |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.iii.127 | There is no stir or walking in the streets; | There is no stirre, or walking in the streetes; |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.176 | Stir up their servants to an act of rage, | Stirre vp their Seruants to an acte of Rage, |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.ii.9 | You shall not stir out of your house today. | You shall not stirre out of your house to day. |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.ii.38 | They would not have you to stir forth today. | They would not haue you to stirre forth to day. |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.ii.110 | What, Brutus, are you stirred so early too? | What Brutus, are you stirr'd so earely too? |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.ii.122 | O masters! If I were disposed to stir | O Maisters! If I were dispos'd to stirre |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.ii.211 | Good friends, sweet friends, let me not stir you up | Good Friends, sweet Friends, let me not stirre you vp. |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.ii.224 | To stir men's blood; I only speak right on. | To stirre mens Blood. I onely speake right on: |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.i.26 | Stir not until the signal. | Stirre not vntill the Signall. |
| King Edward III | E3 II.ii.177 | Stir not, lascivious King, to hinder me. | Stir not lasciuious king to hinder me, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.ii.180 | And if thou stir, I strike. Therefore, stand still, | And if thou stir, I strike, therefore stand still, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.120 | Steer, angry Nemesis, the happy helm, | Stir angry Nemesis the happie helme, |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.181 | And, lowly at his stirrup, comes afoot | and lowly at his stirop comes a foot |
| King John | KJ I.i.145 | Would I might never stir from off this place, | Would I might neuer stirre from off this place, |
| King John | KJ I.i.172 | Who dares not stir by day must walk by night, | Who dares not stirre by day, must walke by night, |
| King John | KJ II.i.55 | And stir them up against a mightier task. | And stirre them vp against a mightier taske: |
| King John | KJ II.i.63 | An Ate, stirring him to blood and strife; | An Ace stirring him to bloud and strife, |
| King John | KJ II.i.112 | From that supernal judge that stirs good thoughts | Frõ that supernal Iudge that stirs good thoughts |
| King John | KJ II.i.415 | I'll stir them to it. Come, away, away! | Ile stirre them to it: Come, away, away. |
| King John | KJ IV.i.80 | I will not stir, nor winch, nor speak a word, | I will not stirre, nor winch, nor speake a word, |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.96 | If thou but frown on me, or stir thy foot, | If thou but frowne on me, or stirre thy foote, |
| King John | KJ V.i.48 | Be stirring as the time; be fire with fire; | Be stirring as the time, be fire with fire, |
| King Lear | KL I.i.126 | Her father's heart from her. Call France! Who stirs? | Her Fathers heart from her; call France, who stirres? |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.167 | There's my key. If you do stir abroad, go armed. | there's my key: if you do stirre abroad, goe arm'd. |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.275 | Into her womb convey sterility, | Into her Wombe conuey stirrility, |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.50 | No marvel, you have so bestirred your valour. You | No Maruell, you haue so bestir'd your valour, you |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.269 | If it be you that stirs these daughters' hearts | If it be you that stirres these Daughters hearts |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.133 | Conspirant 'gainst this high illustrious prince, | Conspirant 'gainst this high illustirous Prince, |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.263 | This feather stirs – she lives! If it be so, | This feather stirs, she liues: if it be so, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.16 | Of such a merry, nimble, stirring spirit, | of such a merrie nimble stirring spirit, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.685 | Pompey is moved. More Ates, more Ates! Stir | Pompey is moued, more Atees more Atees stirre |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.686 | them on, stir them on! | them, or stirre them on. |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iii.144.1 | Without my stir. | Without my stirre. |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.39 | Is thy master stirring? | Is thy Master stirring? |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.42.1 | Is the King stirring, worthy thane? | Is the King stirring, worthy Thane? |
| Macbeth | Mac V.v.12 | Would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir | Would at a dismall Treatise rowze, and stirre |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.185 | Once stir my temper; but this virtuous maid | Once stir my temper: but this vertuous Maid |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.256 | Will leave, but stir not you till you have well | Will leaue you; but stir not you till you haue |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.i.86 | no revenge! Nor no ill luck stirring but what lights | no reuenge, nor no ill luck stirring but what lights |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.184 | Page, would I might never stir! And 'tis a postmaster's | Page, would I might neuer stirre, and 'tis a Post-masters |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.12 | Stir up the Athenian youth to merriments. | Stirre vp the Athenian youth to merriments, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.75 | This flower's force in stirring love. | This flowers force in stirring loue. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.115 | to fright me, if they could; but I will not stir from this | to fright me if they could; but I will not stirre from this |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.361 | Then stir Demetrius up with bitter wrong, | Then stirre Demetrius vp with bitter wrong; |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.37 | But, I pray you, let none of your people stir me. I have | But I pray you let none of your people stirre me, I haue |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iii.94 | Peace! stir not. | Peace, stir not. |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.167 | He that stirs next to carve for his own rage | He that stirs next, to carue for his owne rage, |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.201 | Assays to lead the way. Zounds, if I stir, | Assaies to leade the way. If I once stir, |
| Othello | Oth III.i.25 | General's wife be stirring, tell her there's one Cassio | Generall be stirring, tell her, there's one Cassio |
| Othello | Oth III.i.27 | She is stirring, sir. If she will stir hither, I shall | She is stirring sir: if she will stirre hither, I shall |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.349 | The spirit-stirring drum, th' ear-piercing fife, | The Spirit-stirring Drum, th'Eare-piercing Fife, |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.55 | Breaks out to savage madness. Look, he stirs. | Breakes out to sauage madnesse. Looke, he stirres: |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.96 | I think she stirs again. No. What's best to do? | I thinke she stirres againe. No, what's best to do? |
| Pericles | Per II.i.16 | Look how thou stirrest now! Come | Looke how thou stirr'st now: Come |
| Pericles | Per III.ii.12.1 | Why do you stir so early? | why doe you stirre so early? |
| Pericles | Per III.ii.89 | The viol once more! How thou stirrest, thou block! | The Violl once more; how thou stirr'st thou blocke? |
| Pericles | Per IV.ii.86 | men must comfort you, men must feed you, men stir | men must comfort you, men must feed you, men stir |
| Pericles | Per IV.ii.137 | the beds of eels as my giving out her beauty stirs up the | the beds of Eeles, as my giuing out her beautie stirs vp the |
| Richard II | R2 I.ii.3 | To stir against the butchers of his life. | To stirre against the Butchers of his life. |
| Richard II | R2 II.iii.51 | How far is it to Berkeley, and what stir | How farre is it to Barkely? and what stirre |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.133 | Stirred up by God thus boldly for his king. | Stirr'd vp by Heauen, thus boldly for his King. |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.330 | That stir the King against the Duke my brother. | That stirre the King against the Duke my Brother. |
| Richard III | R3 III.ii.36 | Good morrow, Catesby; you are early stirring. | Good morrow Catesby, you are early stirring: |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.467 | Stirred up by Dorset, Buckingham, and Morton, | Stirr'd vp by Dorset, Buckingham, and Morton, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.56 | Stir with the lark tomorrow, gentle Norfolk. | Stir with the Larke to morrow, gentle Norfolk. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.8 | To move is to stir, and to be valiant is to stand. | To moue, is to stir: and to be valiant, is to stand: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.80 | Thou shalt not stir one foot to seek a foe. | Thou shalt not stir a foote to seeke a Foe. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.112 | But He that hath the steerage of my course | But he that hath the stirrage of my course, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.i.15 | He heareth not, he stirreth not, he moveth not. | He heareth not, he stirreth not, he moueth not, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.i.4 | For now, these hot days, is the mad blood stirring. | for now these / hot dayes, is the mad blood stirring. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.ii.39.2 | Tush, I will stir about, | Tush, I will stirre about, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.iv.3 | Come, stir, stir, stir! The second cock hath crowed. | Come, stir, stir, stir, The second Cocke hath Crow'd, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.147 | The lady stirs. | The Lady stirs. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.174 | Nay, then 'tis time to stir him from his trance. | Nay, then 'tis time to stirre him frõ his trance: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.ii.49 | saddle and stirrups of no kindred – besides, possessed | saddle, and stirrops of no kindred: besides possest |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.i.107 | To hold my stirrup nor to take my horse? | To hold my stirrop, nor to take my horse? |
| The Tempest | Tem I.i.4 | we run ourselves aground. Bestir, bestir! | we run our selues a ground, bestirre, bestirre. |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.69 | And thy sea-marge, sterile and rocky-hard, | And thy Sea-marge stirrile, and rockey-hard, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.85 | Make sacred even his stirrup, and through him | Make Sacred euen his styrrop, and through him |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.iv.54 | You do yourselves but wrong to stir me up. | You do your selues but wrong, to stirre me vp, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iv.23 | Like to a babbling fountain stirred with wind, | Like to a bubling fountaine stir'd with winde, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.i.84 | To stir a mutiny in the mildest thoughts, | To stirre a mutinie in the mildest thoughts, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC prologue.19 | Stir up the sons of Troy. | Stirre vp the Sonnes of Troy. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.51 | E'en so, Hector was stirring early. | E'ene so; Hector was stirring early. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.i.118 | wit stirring, and leave the faction of fools. | wit stirring, and leaue the faction of fooles. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.136 | A stirring dwarf we do allowance give | A stirring Dwarfe, we doe allowance giue, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.184 | Than what stirs not. The cry went once on thee, | Then what not stirs: the cry went out on thee, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.308 | My mind is troubled, like a fountain stirred, | My minde is troubled like a Fountaine stir'd, |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.ii.56 | Never trust me then – and by all means stir on | Neuer trust me then: and by all meanes stirre on |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.iv.13 | What halloing and what stir is this today? | What hallowing, and what stir is this to day? |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.29 | No stirring in him, no alacrity, | No stirring in him, no alacrity, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.131 | But when he stirs, a tiger; he's grey-eyed, | But when he stirs, a Tiger; he's gray eyd, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK prologue.6 | That after holy tie and first night's stir | That after holy Tye, and first nights stir |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.21 | What wisdom stirs amongst you? Come, sir, now | What wisdome stirs amongst you? Come Sir, now |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.207 | Than all thy woes can stir. Therefore betake thee | Then all thy woes can stirre: therefore betake thee |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.603 | that he would not stir his pettitoes till he had both tune | that hee would not stirre his Petty-toes, till he had bothTune |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.i.147 | Good gentleman – the wrongs I have done thee stir | (Good Gentleman) the wrongs I haue done thee, stirre |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.iii.74 | I am sorry, sir, I have thus far stirred you; but | I am sorry (Sir) I haue thus farre stir'd you: but |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.iii.98.1 | No foot shall stir. | No foot shall stirre. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.iii.101 | I'll fill your grave up. Stir; nay, come away. | Ile fill your Graue vp: stirre: nay, come away: |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.iii.103 | Dear life redeems you. You perceive she stirs. | Deare Life redeemes you) you perceiue she stirres: |