| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.ii.8 | As you are now; for you are cold and stern, | As you are now: for you are cold and sterne, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.v.95 | A cistern for scaled snakes! Go get thee hence. | A Cesterne for scal'd Snakes. Go get thee hence, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.307.2 | O eastern star! | Oh Easterne Starre. |
| As You Like It | AYL II.iii.40 | Which I did store to be my foster-nurse | Which I did store to be my foster Nurse, |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.110 | Of stern commandment. But whate'er you are | Of sterne command'ment. But what ere you are |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.84 | From the east to western Ind, | From the east to westerne Inde, |
| As You Like It | AYL III.v.6 | But first begs pardon: will you sterner be | But first begs pardon: will you sterner be |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.10 | By the stern brow and waspish action | By the sterne brow, and waspish action |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.i.24 | I have seen thee stern, and thou hast oft beheld | I haue seene the Sterne, and thou hast oft beheld |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iii.36 | Attend you here the door of our stern daughter? | Attend you here the doore of our stern daughter |
| Hamlet | Ham I.i.168 | Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastward hill. | Walkes o're the dew of yon high Easterne Hill, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.189 | My lord, I think I saw him yesternight. | My Lord, I thinke I saw him yesternight. |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.1.2 | Enter the King and Queen, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, | Enter King, Queene, Rosincrane, and Guildensterne |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.1 | Welcome, dear Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. | Welcome deere Rosincrance and Guildensterne. |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.33 | Thanks, Rosencrantz and gentle Guildenstern. | Thankes Rosincrance, and gentle Guildensterne. |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.34 | Thanks, Guildenstern and gentle Rosencrantz. | Thankes Guildensterne and gentle Rosincrance. |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.39.2 | Guildenstern with attendants | |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.220 | Enter Guildenstern and Rosencrantz | Enter Rosincran and Guildensterne. |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.225 | How dost thou, Guildenstern? Ah, Rosencrantz! | How do'st thou Guildensterne? Oh, Rosincrane; |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.289 | (aside to Guildenstern) | |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.380 | Hark you, Guildenstern – and you too – at each | Hearke you Guildensterne, and you too: at each |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.546 | Exeunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern | Exeunt. Manet Hamlet. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.1.2 | Guildenstern, and lords | Guildenstern, and Lords. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.28 | Exeunt Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, and lords | Exeunt. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.56.1 | Enter Polonius, Rosencrantz, and Guildenstern | Enter Polonius, Rosincrance, and Guildensterne. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.61 | Exeunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern | Exeunt. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.102.4 | Guildenstern, and other lords attendant, with | Guildensterne, and other Lords attendant with |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.304.1 | Enter Rosencrantz and Guildenstern | Enter Rosincrance and Guildensterne. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iii.1 | Enter the King, Rosencrantz, and Guildenstern | Enter King, Rosincrance, and Guildensterne. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iii.26 | Exeunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern | Exeunt Gent. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.130 | My stern effects. Then what I have to do | My sterne effects: then what I haue to do, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.i.1.2 | Guildenstern | |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.i.4 | Exeunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern | |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.i.32 | Both countenance and excuse. Ho, Guildenstern! | Both countenance, and excuse. / Ho Guildenstern: |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.i.33 | Enter Rosencrantz and Guildenstern | Enter Ros. & Guild. |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.i.37 | Exeunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern | Exit Gent. |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.ii.5 | Enter Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, and attendants | Enter Ros. and Guildensterne. |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.iii.11.1 | Enter Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, and all the rest | Enter Rosincrane. |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.iii.15.2 | Ho! Bring in the lord. | Hoa, Guildensterne? Bring in my Lord. |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.iii.16 | Enter attendants with Hamlet | Enter Hamlet and Guildensterne. |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.iv.9.1 | Enter Hamlet, Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, and | |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vi.26 | will bring thee where I am. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern | will bring thee where I am. Rosincrance and Guildensterne, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.56 | So Guildenstern and Rosencrantz go to't. | So Guildensterne and Rosincrance, go too't. |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.365 | That Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead. | That Rosincrance and Guildensterne are dead: |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.i.32 | What yesternight our Council did decree | What yesternight our Councell did decree, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.i.36 | But yesternight, when all athwart there came | But yesternight: when all athwart there came |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.i.55 | current that I told you yesternight. There's a franklin in | currant that I told you yesternight. There's a Franklin in |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 induction.14 | Is thought with child by the stern tyrant War, | Is thought with childe, by the sterne Tyrant, Warre, |
| Henry V | H5 III.chorus.18 | Grapple your minds to sternage of this navy, | Grapple your minds to sternage of this Nauie, |
| Henry V | H5 III.vii.12 | horse with any that treads but on four pasterns. Ca, ha! | Horse with any that treades but on foure postures: ch'ha: |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.61 | To swearing and stern looks, diffused attire, | To Swearing, and sterne Lookes, defus'd Attyre, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.177 | And sit at chiefest stern of public weal. | And sit at chiefest Sterne of publique Weale. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.ii.62 | Question her proudly, let thy looks be stern; | Question her prowdly, let thy Lookes be sterne, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.126 | Why look you still so stern and tragical? | Why looke you still so sterne, and tragicall? |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.vii.8 | Rough deeds of rage and stern impatience; | Rough deeds of Rage, and sterne Impatience: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.91 | Or turn our stern upon a dreadful rock. | Or turne our Sterne vpon a dreadfull Rocke: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.213 | Some stern untutored churl, and noble stock | Some sterne vntutur'd Churle; and Noble Stock |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.i.123 | Suffolk's imperial tongue is stern and rough, | Suffolkes Imperiall tongue is sterne and rough: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.239 | Stern Falconbridge commands the narrow seas; | Sterne Falconbridge commands the Narrow Seas, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.142 | Thou stern, obdurate, flinty, rough, remorseless. | Thou, sterne, obdurate, flintie, rough, remorselesse. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.103 | Is by the stern Lord Clifford done to death. | Is by the sterne Lord Clifford done to death. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.iii.6 | Ere he attain his easeful western bed; | Ere he attaine his easefull Westerne Bed: |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.238 | Stole from my bed; and yesternight at supper | Stole from my bed: and yesternight at Supper |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.ii.93 | Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: | Ambition should be made of sterner stuffe, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.422 | When the stern dame envenometh the dug. | When the sterne dame inuennometh the Dug: |
| King Edward III | E3 II.ii.208 | For ere the sun shall gild the eastern sky, | For ere the Sunne shal guide the esterne skie, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.34 | The stern Polonian, and the warlike Dane, | The sterne Polonian and the warlike Dane: |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.116 | To look our foes more sternly in the face. | To looke our foes more sternely in the face. |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.27 | The sun, dread Lord, that in the western fall | The Sun dread Lord that in the western fall, |
| King John | KJ IV.i.87 | He hath a stern look, but a gentle heart. | He hath a sterne looke, but a gentle heart: |
| King John | KJ V.ii.23 | Of stern injustice and confused wrong. | Of sterne Iniustice, and confused wrong: |
| King John | KJ V.v.2 | But stayed and made the western welkin blush, | But staid, and made the Westerne Welkin blush, |
| King Lear | KL III.vii.62 | If wolves had at thy gate howled that dern time | If Wolues had at thy Gate howl'd that sterne time, |
| King Lear | KL IV.iv.12 | Our foster-nurse of nature is repose, | Our foster Nurse of Nature, is repose, |
| Macbeth | Mac I.ii.12 | Do swarm upon him – from the Western Isles | Doe swarme vpon him) from the Westerne Isles |
| Macbeth | Mac II.ii.4 | Which gives the stern'st good-night. He is about it. | which giues the stern'st good-night. He is about it, |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.63 | The cistern of my lust; and my desire | The Cesterne of my Lust, and my Desire |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.66.1 | Would not have been so stern. | Would not haue beene so sterne. |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.i.28 | Whose western side is with a vineyard backed; | Whose westerne side is with a Vineyard back't; |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.86 | That wounds th' unsisting postern with these strokes. | That wounds th' vnsisting Posterne with these strokes. |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.134 | But yesternight, my lord, she and that friar, | But yesternight my Lord, she and that Fryer |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.i.27 | I would o'erstare the sternest eyes that look, | I would ore-stare the sternest eies that looke: |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.166 | It fell upon a little western flower, | It fell vpon a little westerne flower; |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.59 | Pierced through the heart with your stern cruelty. | Pierst through the heart with your stearne cruelty: |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.142 | Fanned with the eastern wind, turns to a crow | Fan'd with the Easterne winde, turnes to a crow, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.391 | Even till the eastern gate all fiery red | Euen till the Easterne gate all fierie red, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.106 | Uncouple in the western valley; let them go. | Vncouple in the Westerne valley, let them goe; |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.81 | What man was he talked with you yesternight | What man was he, talkt with you yesternight, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.180 | At hours unmeet, or that I yesternight | At houres vnmeete, or that I yesternight |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.60 | Or keep it as a cistern for foul toads | Or keepe it as a Cesterne, for foule Toades |
| Pericles | Per III.i.52 | still observed, and we are strong in custom. Therefore | still obserued. And we are strong in easterne, therefore |
| Pericles | Per IV.i.64 | From stem to stern. The boatswain whistles, and | from sterne to sterne, the Boatswaine whistles, and |
| Richard II | R2 I.ii.32 | Teaching stern murder how to butcher thee. | Teaching sterne murther how to butcher thee: |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.42 | He fires the proud tops of the eastern pines, | He fires the prowd tops of the Easterne Pines, |
| Richard II | R2 V.v.17 | To thread the postern of a small needle's eye.’ | To thred the posterne of a Needles eye. |
| Richard III | R3 I.i.7 | Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings, | Our sterne Alarums chang'd to merry Meetings; |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.44 | That I, forsooth, am stern, and love them not? | Thar I (forsooth) am sterne, and loue them not? |
| Richard III | R3 III.vi.6 | For yesternight by Catesby was it sent me; | For yester-night by Catesby was it sent me, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.433 | Most mighty sovereign, on the western coast | Most mightie Soueraigne, on the Westerne Coast |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.481 | Are they not now upon the western shore, | Are they not now vpon the Westerne Shore, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.198 | Murder, stern murder, in the direst degree, | Murther, sterne murther, in the dyr'st degree, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.188 | The grey-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night, | The gray ey'd morne smiles on the frowning night. Checkring the Easterne Cloudes with streaks of light: And fleckled darknesse like a drunkard reeles. From forth daies path. and Titans burning wheeles: Now ere the Sun aduance his burning eye. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.189 | Chequering the eastern clouds with streaks of light, | Checkring the Easterne Clouds with streakes of light, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iii.1 | Now, ere the sun advance his burning eye | The gray ey'd morne smiles on the frowning night, / Checkring the Easterne Cloudes with streaks of light: / And fleckled darknesse like a drunkard reeles, / From forth daies path, and Titans burning wheeles: / Now ere the Sun aduance his burning eye, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.251 | Was stayed by accident and yesternight | Was stay'd by accident; and yesternight |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iv.16 | Speak, gentle niece, what stern ungentle hands | Speake gentle Neece, what sterne vngentle hands |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.152 | His wife but yesternight was brought to bed; | His wife but yesternight was brought to bed, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.202 | More stern and bloody than the Centaurs' feast. | More sterne and bloody then the Centaures Feast. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.i.34 | Well, she looked yesternight fairer than ever | Well: / She look'd yesternight fairer, then euer |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.2.2 | Up to the eastern tower, | Vp to the Easterne Tower, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.i.142 | testify your bounty, I thank you, you have testerned me; | testifie your bounty, I thank you, you haue cestern'd me; |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.i.1 | The sun begins to gild the western sky, | The Sun begins to guild the westerne skie, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.i.9 | Out at the postern by the abbey wall; | Out at the Posterne by the Abbey wall; |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.86 | That equally canst poise sternness with pity, | That equally canst poize sternenes with pitty, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.79 | Nearer a brown than black, stern and yet noble, | Nearer a browne, than blacke; sterne, and yet noble, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.46 | Must be to him that makes the camp a cistern | Must be to him that makes the Campe, a Cestron |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.438 | And will by twos and threes, at several posterns, | And will by twoes, and threes, at seuerall Posternes, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.464 | The keys of all the posterns. Please your highness | The Keyes of all the Posternes: Please your Highnesse |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.52 | For them to play at will. How came the posterns | For them to play at will: how came the Posternes |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.24.1 | The sternness of his presence? | The sternnesse of his presence? |