| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL V.ii.36 | degrees have they made a pair of stairs to marriage | degrees, haue they made a paire of staires to marriage, |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vii.105 | Slaver with lips as common as the stairs | Slauuer with lippes as common as the stayres |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.iii.35 | month, you shall nose him as you go up the stairs into | moneth, you shall nose him as you go vp the staires into |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.99 | industry is upstairs and downstairs, his eloquence the | industry is vp-staires and down-staires, his eloquence the |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.i.96 | And didst thou not, when she was gone downstairs, | And didst not thou (when she was gone downe staires) |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.183 | For God's sake, thrust him downstairs; I cannot | Thrust him downe stayres, I cannot |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.185 | Thrust him downstairs? Know we not | Thrust him downe stayres? know we not |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.190 | Come, get you downstairs. | Come, get you downe stayres. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.198 | Get you downstairs. | Get you downe stayres. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.330 | The stairs, as he treads on them, kiss his feet. | The staires as he treads on them kisse his feete. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.84 | As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins | As stayers of sand, weare yet vpon their chins |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.ii.10 | always keep below stairs? | alwaies keepe below staires? |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.185 | And bring thee cords made like a tackled stair, | And bring thee Cords made like a tackled staire, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.ii.82 | Enter Silvia at an upstairs window | |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.iii.4 | Enter Silvia at an upstairs window | |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.iii.72 | has been some stair-work, some trunk-work, some | has beene some staire-worke, some Trunke-worke, some |