| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.299 | me a sterile promontory. This most excellent canopy, | me a sterrill Promontory; this most excellent Canopy |
| 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, |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.9.1 | Shake off their sterile curse. | Shake off their sterrile curse. |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.321 | have it sterile with idleness or manured with industry, | haue it sterrill with idlenesse, or manured with Industry, |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.69 | And thy sea-marge, sterile and rocky-hard, | And thy Sea-marge stirrile, and rockey-hard, |