| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.ii.29 | From below your duke to beneath your constable, | From below your Duke, to beneath your Constable, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.282 | France is a stable, we that dwell in't jades. | France is a stable, wee that dwell in't Iades, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.vi.9 | He gave the stablishment of Egypt; made her | He gaue the stablishment of Egypt, made her |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iv.46 | Establish him in his true sense again, | Establish him in his true sence againe, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.80 | support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act established | support Vsurers; repeale daily any wholsome Act established |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.148 | To unstable slightness. Purpose so barred, it follows | To vnstable Slightnesse. Purpose so barr'd, it followes, |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.200 | By the consent of all we were established | By the consent of all, we were establish'd |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.i.36 | gelding in the stable. | Gelding in the stable. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.i.97 | Bid the Ostler bring my gelding out of the stable. | Bid the Ostler bring the Gelding out of the stable. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.140 | the Lord I'll stab thee. | Ile stab thee. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.iv.126 | sirrah (stabbing him), with a new wound in your thigh, | sirra, with a new wound in your thigh |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.i.12 | stab. | stab |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.i.13 | Alas the day, take heed of him – he stabbed me | Alas the day: take heed of him: he stabd me |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.86 | But to establish here a peace indeed, | But to establish here a Peace indeede, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.109 | To stab at half an hour of my life. | To stab at halfe an howre of my Life. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.iv.4 | The constables have delivered her over | The Constables haue deliuer'd her ouer |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.50 | Established then this law: to wit, no female | Establisht then this Law; to wit, No Female |
| Henry V | H5 II.iv.1.2 | Dukes of Berri and Britaine, the Constable and others | Dukes of Berry and Britaine. |
| Henry V | H5 II.iv.41 | Well, 'tis not so, my Lord High Constable; | Well, 'tis not so, my Lord High Constable. |
| Henry V | H5 III.v.1.2 | Britaine, the Constable of France, and others | Constable of France, and others. |
| Henry V | H5 III.v.40 | Charles Delabreth, High Constable of France, | Charles Delabreth, High Constable of France, |
| Henry V | H5 III.v.61 | Therefore, Lord Constable, haste on Montjoy, | Therefore Lord Constable, hast on Montioy, |
| Henry V | H5 III.v.67 | Now forth, Lord Constable, and Princes all, | Now forth Lord Constable, and Princes all, |
| Henry V | H5 III.vii.1.1 | Enter the Constable of France, the Lord Rambures, | Enter the Constable of France, the Lord Ramburs, |
| Henry V | H5 III.vii.8 | Constable, you talk of horse and armour? | Constable, you talke of Horse and Armour? |
| Henry V | H5 III.vii.58 | I tell thee, Constable, my mistress wears his | I tell thee Constable, my Mistresse weares his |
| Henry V | H5 III.vii.66 | My Lord Constable, the armour that I saw | My Lord Constable, the Armour that I saw |
| Henry V | H5 III.vii.122 | My Lord High Constable, the English lie | My Lord high Constable, the English lye |
| Henry V | H5 IV.ii.5 | Enter the Constable | Enter Constable. |
| Henry V | H5 IV.ii.5 | Now, my Lord Constable! | Now my Lord Constable? |
| Henry V | H5 IV.iii.84 | The Constable desires thee thou wilt mind | The Constable desires thee, thou wilt mind |
| Henry V | H5 IV.iii.89 | The Constable of France. | The Constable of France. |
| Henry V | H5 IV.iii.108 | Let me speak proudly: tell the Constable | Let me speake prowdly: Tell the Constable, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.iii.125 | Shall yield them little, tell the Constable. | Shall yeeld them little, tell the Constable. |
| Henry V | H5 IV.v.1.1 | Enter the Constable, Orleans, Bourbon, Dauphin, | Enter Constable, Orleance, Burbon, Dolphin, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.v.7 | O perdurable shame! Let's stab ourselves. | O perdurable shame, let's stab our selues: |
| Henry V | H5 IV.viii.91 | Charles Delabreth, High Constable of France, | Charles Delabreth, High Constable of France, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.i.10 | And stablish quietness on every side. | And stablish quietnesse on euery side. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iii.92 | And peace established between these realms | And peace established betweene these Realmes. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.317 | And what we do establish he confirms. | And what we doe establish, he confirmes: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.i.65 | Speak, captain, shall I stab the forlorn swain? | Speak Captaine, shall I stab the forlorn Swain. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.i.66 | First let my words stab him, as he hath me. | First let my words stab him, as he hath me. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.i.139 | Stabbed Julius Caesar; savage islanders | Stab'd Iulius Casar. Sauage Islanders |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iii.48 | He stabs Rutland | |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.176.1 | He stabs York | |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.177 | She stabs York | |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.98 | Stab poniards in our flesh till all were told, | Stab Poniards in our flesh, till all were told, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.iv.6 | This is the hand that stabbed thy father York, | This is the hand that stabb'd thy Father Yorke, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.vi.30 | I stabbed your fathers' bosoms; split my breast. | I stab'd your Fathers bosomes; Split my brest. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.v.39.1 | He stabs him | Stabs him. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.v.40 | He stabs him | Rich. stabs him. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.v.41 | He stabs him | Clar. stabs him. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.v.53 | They that stabbed Caesar shed no blood at all, | They that stabb'd Casar, shed no blood at all: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.vi.58 | He stabs him | Stabbes him. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.vi.68 | (He stabs him again) | Stabs him againe. |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.i.102 | When I came hither, I was Lord High Constable | When I came hither, I was Lord High Constable, |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.i.27 | Held a late court at Dunstable, six miles off | Held a late Court at Dunstable; sixe miles off |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.272 | stabbed their mothers, they would have done no less. | stab'd their Mothers, they would haue done no lesse. |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.iii.86 | Mean to establish Caesar as a king; | Meane to establish Casar as a King: |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.77 | They stab Caesar | They stab Casar. |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.ii.153 | Whose daggers have stabbed Caesar; I do fear it. | Whose Daggers haue stabb'd Casar: I do feare it. |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.ii.177 | Through this, the well-beloved Brutus stabbed, | Through this, the wel-beloued Brutus stabb'd, |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.ii.185 | For when the noble Caesar saw him stab, | For when the Noble Casar saw him stab, |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.20 | What villain touched his body, that did stab, | What Villaine touch'd his body, that did stab, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.348 | O doting King! O detestable office! | O doting King, or detestable office, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.v.78 | Than break the stable verdict of a prince. | Than break the stable verdict of a prince, |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.40 | It is a glorious thing to stablish peace, | It is a glorious thing to stablish peace, |
| King John | KJ III.iv.29 | And I will kiss thy detestable bones | And I will kisse thy detestable bones, |
| King John | KJ V.ii.140 | To crouch in litter of your stable planks, | To crowch in litter of your stable plankes, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.179.1 | Enter Dull with a letter, | Enter a Constable with Costard with a Letter. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.250 | Sorted and consorted, contrary to thy established | sorted and consorted contrary to thy established |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.ii.121.1 | Enter Dull, Costard, | Enter Clowne, Constable, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.173 | A critic, nay, a night-watch constable, | Nay, a night-watch Constable. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.80 | O, I am stabbed with laughter! Where's her grace? | O I am stab'd with laughter, Wher's her Grace? |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iv.38 | We will establish our estate upon | We will establish our Estate vpon |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.110 | And his gashed stabs looked like a breach in nature | And his gash'd Stabs, look'd like a Breach in Nature, |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.ii.84 | He stabs him | |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.92 | As justice, verity, temperance, stableness, | As Iustice, Verity, Temp'rance, Stablenesse, |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.47 | constable, and my name is Elbow. I do lean upon | Constable, and my name is Elbow; I doe leane vpon |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.75 | How dost thou know that, constable? | How do'st thou know that, Constable? |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.151 | constable's wife any harm? I would know that of your | Constables wife any harme? I would know that of your |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.153 | He's in the right. Constable, what say you to it? | He's in the right (Constable) what say you to it? |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.246 | hither, master constable. How long have you been in | hither Master Constable: how long haue you bin in |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.247 | this place of constable? | this place of Constable? |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iii.17 | that stabbed Pots, and I think forty more, all great doers | that stabb'd Pots, and I thinke fortie more, all great doers |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.216 | Can alter a decree established. | Can alter a decree established: |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.v.110 | the knave constable had set me i'th' stocks, i'th' common | the knaue Constable had set me ith' Stocks, ith' common |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.293 | He stabs himself | |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.337 | She stabs herself | |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.227 | speaks poniards, and every word stabs. If her breath | speakes poynyards, and euery word stabbes: if her breath |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iii.10 | to be constable? | to be Constable? |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iii.17 | Both which, Master Constable – | Both which Master Constable |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iii.23 | for the constable of the watch; therefore bear you the | for the Constable of the watch: therefore beare you the |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iii.72 | This is the end of the charge: you, constable, | This is the end of the charge: you constable |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iii.160 | Call up the right Master Constable. | Call vp the right master Constable, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iv.42 | husband have stables enough, you'll see he shall lack no | husband haue stables enough, you'll looke he shall lacke no |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.v.1.1 | Enter Leonato, with the Constable, Dogberry and the | Enter Leonato, and the Constable, and the |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.ii.1.1 | Enter Dogberry, Verges, and the Sexton, in gowns; | Enter the Constables, Borachio, and the Towne Clerke in gownes. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.ii.8 | examined? Let them come before Master Constable. | examined, let them come before master Constable. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.ii.32 | Master Constable, you go not the way to examine; | Master Constable, you goe not the way to examine, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.ii.41 | Master Constable – | Master Constable. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.ii.61 | and upon the grief of this suddenly died. Master Constable, | and vpon the griefe of this sodainely died: Master Constable, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.197.1 | Enter Dogberry, Verges, Watch, Conrade and | Enter Constable, Conrade, and |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.217 | are thus bound to your answer? This learned Constable | are thus bound to your answer? this learned Constable |
| Othello | Oth III.iv.6 | stabbing. | stabbing. |
| Othello | Oth V.i.62 | He stabs Roderigo | |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.233.2 | Iago stabs Emilia from behind and exit | |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.353 | He stabs himself | |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.117 | His barbed steeds to stables, and his heart | His barbed Steedes to Stables, and his heart |
| Richard II | R2 V.v.67 | Enter a Groom of the stable | Enter Groome. |
| Richard II | R2 V.v.72 | I was a poor groom of thy stable, King, | I was a poore Groome of thy Stable (King) |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.11 | Stabbed by the selfsame hand that made these wounds! | Stab'd by the selfesame hand that made these wounds. |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.181 | Nay now, dispatch; 'twas I that stabbed young Edward – | Nay now dispatch: 'Twas I that stabb'd yong Edward, |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.241 | Stabbed in my angry mood at Tewkesbury? | Stab'd in my angry mood, at Tewkesbury? |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.211 | Was stabbed with bloody daggers. God, I pray Him, | Was stab'd with bloody Daggers: God, I pray him, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.56 | That stabbed me in the field by Tewkesbury. | That stabb'd me in the field by Tewkesbury: |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.101 | What? Shall I stab him as he sleeps? | What, shall we stab him as he sleepes. |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.106 | Why, then he'll say we stabbed him | Why then hee'l say, we stab'd him |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.272 | Take that! And that! (Stabs him) If all this will not do, | Take that, and that, if all this will not do, Stabs him. |
| Richard III | R3 III.ii.86 | This sudden stab of rancour I misdoubt. | This sudden stab of Rancour I misdoubt: |
| Richard III | R3 III.iii.16 | For standing by when Richard stabbed her son. | For standing by, when Richard stab'd her Sonne. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.67 | Thy Clarence he is dead that stabbed my Edward, | Thy Clarence he is dead, that stab'd my Edward, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.120 | Think how thou stab'st me in my prime of youth | Thinke how thou stab'st me in my prime of youth |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.248 | One raised in blood and one in blood established; | One rais'd in blood, and one in blood establish'd; |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.40 | Tut, dun's the mouse, the constable's own word! | Tut, duns the Mouse, the Constables owne word, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.14 | stabbed with a white wench's black eye; shot through the | stab'd with a white wenches blacke eye, runne through the |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.iii.108.3 | He offers to stab himself, and the Nurse snatches the | |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.56 | Most detestable Death, by thee beguiled, | Most detestable death, by thee beguil'd, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.45 | Thou detestable maw, thou womb of death, | Thou detestable mawe, thou wombe of death, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.171 | She stabs herself and falls | Kils herselfe. |
| The Tempest | Tem III.ii.25 | case to justle a constable. Why, thou deboshed fish, | case to iustle a Constable: why, thou debosh'd Fish |
| The Tempest | Tem III.iii.64 | Wound the loud winds, or with bemocked-at stabs | Wound the loud windes, or with bemockt-at-Stabs |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.i.33 | But nakedness, thou detestable town. | But nakednesse, thou detestable Towne, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.100 | Hang them or stab them, drown them in a draught, | Hang them, or stab them, drowne them in a draught, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.117 | He stabs Bassianus | stab him. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.118.1 | He also stabs Bassianus, who dies. | |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.i.94 | O detestable villain, call'st thou that trimming? | Oh detestable villaine! / Call'st thou that Trimming? |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.47 | Stab them, or tear them on thy chariot wheels, | Stab them, or teare them on thy Chariot wheeles, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.100 | Good Murder, stab him: he's a murderer. | Good Murder stab him, hee's a Murtherer. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.103 | Good Rapine, stab him: he is a ravisher. | Good Rapine stab him, he is a Rauisher. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.63.1 | He stabs the Empress | He stabs the Empresse. |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.iii.19 | With such a smooth, discreet, and stable bearing | With such a smooth, discreet, and stable bearing |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.i.51 | Who, in my mood, I stabbed unto the heart. | Who, in my moode, I stab'd vnto the heart. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.ii.30 | Lest I should drown, or stab, or hang myself. | Least I should drowne, or stab, or hang my selfe. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.138 | Affection, thy intention stabs the centre. | Affection? thy Intention stabs the Center. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.134 | She's otherwise, I'll keep my stables where | Shee's otherwise, Ile keepe my Stables where |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iii.61 | apparel ta'en from me, and these detestable things put | apparrell tane from me, and these detestable things put |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.720 | stamped coin, not stabbing steel; therefore they do not | stamped Coyne, not stabbing Steele, therefore they doe not |