| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.i.73 | That's able to breathe life into a stone, | That's able to breath life into a stone, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.115 | Go to, then; your considerate stone. | Go too then: your Considerate stone. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.160 | And poison it in the source, and the first stone | And poyson it in the sourse, and the first stone |
| As You Like It | AYL I.ii.42 | Enter Touchstone | Enter Clowne. |
| As You Like It | AYL I.ii.52 | for our whetstone: for always the dullness of of the fool is | for our whetstone. for alwaies the dulnesse of the foole, is |
| As You Like It | AYL I.ii.53 | the whetstone of the wits. How now, wit, whither | the whetstone of the wits. How now Witte, whether |
| As You Like It | AYL I.ii.218 | Exit Duke, with Lords, Le Beau, and Touchstone | Exit Duke. |
| As You Like It | AYL II.i.17 | Sermons in stones, and good in everything. | Sermons in stones, and good in euery thing. |
| As You Like It | AYL II.iv.1.2 | the Clown, alias Touchstone | Clowne, alias Touchstone. |
| As You Like It | AYL II.iv.16 | Ay, be so, good Touchstone. – Look you, who comes here: | I, be so good Touchstone: Look you, who comes here, |
| As You Like It | AYL II.iv.43 | I broke my sword upon a stone and bid him take that for | I broke my sword vpon a stone, and bid him take that for |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.11 | Enter Corin and Touchstone | Enter Corin & Clowne. |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.11 | And how like you this shepherd's life, Master | And how like you this shepherds life Mr Touchstone? |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.12 | Touchstone? | |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.43 | Not a whit, Touchstone. Those that are good | Not a whit Touchstone, those that are good |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.158 | Exit Touchstone, with Corin | Exit. |
| As You Like It | AYL III.iii.1.1 | Enter Touchstone and Audrey, followed by Jaques | Enter Clowne, Audrey, & Iaques. |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.26 | A freestone-coloured hand; I verily did think | A freestone coloured hand: I verily did thinke |
| As You Like It | AYL V.i.1 | Enter Touchstone and Audrey | Enter Clowne and Awdrie. |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iii.1 | Enter Touchstone and Audrey | Enter Clowne and Audrey. |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iv.34.1 | Enter Touchstone and Audrey | Enter Clowne and Audrey. |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iv.132.1 | (to Touchstone and Audrey) | |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iv.188 | (to Touchstone) | |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iii.73 | A nut, a cherry stone. | a nut, a cherrie-stone: |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.172 | Or hailstone in the sun. Your virtue is | Or Hailstone in the Sun. Your Vertue is, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.204 | That hunger broke stone walls, that dogs must eat, | That Hunger-broke stone wals: that dogges must eate |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.ii.75 | Thy knee bussing the stones – for in such business | Thy Knee bussing the stones: for in such businesse |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.iv.5 | Lest that thy wives with spits and boys with stones | Least that thy Wiues with Spits, and Boyes with stones |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iv.2 | cornerstone? | corner stone? |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.v.74 | I praised her as I rated her: so do I my stone. | I prais'd her, as I rated her: so do I my Stone. |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vii.35 | The fiery orbs above, and the twinned stones | The firie Orbes aboue, and the twinn'd Stones |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.40 | Sparkles this stone as it was wont, or is't not | Sparkles this Stone as it was wont, or is't not |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.46.1 | The stone's too hard to come by. | The Stones too hard to come by. |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.271 | Nor th' all-dreaded thunder-stone. | Nor th'all-dreaded Thunderstone. |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.222 | Spit, and throw stones, cast mire upon me, set | Spit, and throw stones, cast myre vpon me, set |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.240 | The gods throw stones of sulphur on me, if | the Gods throw stones of sulpher on me, if |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.127 | His form and cause conjoined, preaching to stones, | His forme and cause conioyn'd, preaching to stones, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.32 | At his heels a stone. | at his heeles a stone. |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.20 | Work like the spring that turneth wood to stone, | Would like the Spring that turneth Wood to Stone, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 induction.35 | And this worm-eaten hold of ragged stone, | And this Worme-eaten-Hole of ragged Stone, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.205 | Of fair King Richard, scraped from Pomfret stones; | Of faire King Richard, scrap'd from Pomfret stones, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.318 | but I will make him a philosopher's two stones to me. If | but I will make him a Philosophers two Stones to me. If |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.283 | Hath turned his balls to gun-stones, and his soul | Hath turn'd his balles to Gun-stones, and his soule |
| Henry V | H5 II.iii.23 | bed, and felt them, and they were as cold as any stone; | Bed, and felt them, and they were as cold as any stone: |
| Henry V | H5 II.iii.25 | all was as cold as any stone. | all was as cold as any stone. |
| Henry V | H5 III.vi.28 | That stands upon the rolling restless stone – | that stands vpon the rolling restlesse Stone. |
| Henry V | H5 III.vi.35 | spherical stone, which rolls, and rolls, and rolls. In | Sphericall Stone, which rowles, and rowles, and rowles: in |
| Henry V | H5 IV.vii.59 | And make them skirr away as swift as stones | And make them sker away, as swift as stones |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iv.45 | And with my nails digged stones out of the ground | And with my nayles digg'd stones out of the ground, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.76 | A noise again: ‘ Stones! Stones!’ Enter the Mayor | A noyse againe, Stones, Stones. Enter Maior. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.80 | Have filled their pockets full of pebble-stones | Haue fill'd their Pockets full of peeble stones; |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.89 | Nay, if we be forbidden stones, | Nay,if we be forbidden Stones, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.vi.1.2 | on London Stone | staffe on London stone. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.vi.2 | upon London Stone, I charge and command that, | vpon London Stone, / I charge and command, that |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.ii.50 | My heart is turned to stone, and while 'tis mine | My heart is turn'd to stone: and while 'tis mine, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.i.63 | Not decked with diamonds and Indian stones, | Not deck'd with Diamonds, and Indian stones: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.i.84 | Who gave his blood to lime the stones together, | Who gaue his blood to lyme the stones together, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.i.108 | Or shall we beat the stones about thine ears? | Or shall we beat the Stones about thine Eares? |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iii.104 | When ye first put this dangerous stone a-rolling, | When we first put this dangerous stone a rowling, |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.i.35 | You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things! | You Blockes, you stones, you worse then senslesse things: |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.iii.49 | Have bared my bosom to the thunder-stone; | Haue bar'd my Bosome to the Thunder-stone: |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.ii.143 | You are not wood, you are not stones, but men; | You are not Wood, you are not Stones, but men: |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.ii.231 | The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny. | The stones of Rome, to rise and Mutiny. |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iii.69 | And flintstones rise and break the battle 'ray, | and flint stones rise and breake the battell ray: |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iii.75 | For, as it is impossible that stones | For as it is impossible that stones |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.vi.16 | And to it with stones! Away, Artois, away! | and to it with stones, awaie Artoys, awaie, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.vi.25 | And that our native stones from English arms | and that our natiue stones from English armes |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.vi.36 | Hath with a stone foiled twenty stout Goliaths; | Hath with a stone foild twentie stout Goliahs, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.vi.42 | Have forty lean slaves this day stoned to death. | Haue fortie leane slaues this daie stoned to death. |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.204 | That now are turned to ragged heaps of stones. | That now are turnd to ragged heaps of stones? |
| King John | KJ II.i.216 | And but for our approach those sleeping stones, | And but for our approch, those sleeping stones, |
| King John | KJ IV.i.76 | I will not struggle; I will stand stone-still. | I will not struggle, I will stand stone still: |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.9 | O me! My uncle's spirit is in these stones! | Oh me, my Vnckles spirit is in these stones, |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.55 | Ay tailor, sir. A stone-cutter or a painter could not | A Taylor Sir, a Stone-cutter, or a Painter, could not |
| King Lear | KL III.ii.64 | More harder than the stones whereof 'tis raised; | (More harder then the stones whereof 'tis rais'd, |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.188 | Their precious stones new lost; became his guide, | Their precious Stones new lost: became his guide, |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.255 | Howl, howl, howl! O, you are men of stones! | Howle, howle, howle: O your are men of stones, |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.260 | If that her breath will mist or stain the stone, | If that her breath will mist or staine the stone, |
| Macbeth | Mac II.i.58 | Thy very stones prate of my whereabout | Thy very stones prate of my where-about, |
| Macbeth | Mac III.iv.122 | Stones have been known to move and trees to speak; | Stones haue beene knowne to moue, & Trees to speake: |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.i.6 | Toad that under cold stone | Toad, that vnder cold stone, |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.227 | Be this the whetstone of your sword; let grief | Be this the Whetstone of your sword, let griefe |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.iii.53 | Is more to bread than stone. Hence shall we see, | Is more to bread then stone: hence shall we see |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.103 | cracking the stones of the foresaid prunes – | cracking the stones of the foresaid prewyns. |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.150 | Or stones whose rates are either rich or poor | Or Stones, whose rate are either rich, or poore |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.i.30 | And see the holy edifice of stone | And see the holy edifice of stone, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.viii.20 | And jewels, two stones, two rich and precious stones, | And iewels, two stones, two rich and precious stones, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.viii.22 | She hath the stones upon her, and the ducats.’ | She hath the stones vpon her, and the ducats. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.viii.24 | Crying his stones, his daughter, and his ducats. | Crying his stones, his daughter, and his ducats. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.80 | Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods, | Did faine that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iii.76 | Rogues, hence, avaunt! Vanish like hailstones, go! | Rogues, hence, auaunt, vanish like haile-stones; goe, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iv.109 | By gar, I will cut all his two stones. By gar, he shall not | by gar I will cut all his two stones: by gar, he shall not |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iv.110 | have a stone to throw at his dog. | haue a stone to throw at his dogge. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.i.30 | A stone. | A Stone. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.i.31 | And what is ‘ a stone,’ William? | And what is a Stone (William?) |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.159 | This loam, this roughcast, and this stone doth show | This loame, this rough-cast, and this stone doth shew, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.178 | Cursed be thy stones for thus deceiving me! | Curst be thy stones for thus deceiuing mee. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.187 | My cherry lips have often kissed thy stones, | My cherry lips haue often kist thy stones; |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.188 | Thy stones with lime and hair knit up in thee. | Thy stones with Lime and Haire knit vp in thee. |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.182 | stone: I strike it, and it hurts my hand. – O, the world | stone: I strike it, and it hurts my hand. Oh, the world |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.232 | Fire and brimstone! | Fire, and brimestone. |
| Othello | Oth IV.iii.44 | Her salt tears fell from her and softened the stones – | Her salt teares fell from her, and softned the stones, |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.63 | O perjured woman! Thou dost stone my heart, | O periur'd woman, thou do'st stone my heart, |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.232.2 | Are there no stones in heaven | Are there no stones in Heauen, |
| Pericles | Per II.ii.37 | Holding out gold that's by the touchstone tried. | Holding out Gold, that's by the Touch-stone tride: |
| Pericles | Per III.ii.35 | That dwell in vegetives, in metals, stones; | that dwels / In Vegetiues, in Mettals, Stones: |
| Richard II | R2 I.ii.69 | Unpeopled offices, untrodden stones, | Vn-peopel'd Offices, vntroden stones? |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.46 | This precious stone set in the silver sea, | This precious stone, set in the siluer sea, |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.24 | This earth shall have a feeling, and these stones | This Earth shall haue a feeling, and these Stones |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.26 | Within the limits of yon lime and stone, | Within the limits of yond Lime and Stone, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.352 | Your eyes drop millstones when fools' eyes fall tears. | Your eyes drop Mill-stones, when Fooles eyes fall Teares: |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.27 | Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels, | Inestimable Stones, vnvalewed Iewels, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.243 | Ay, millstones, as he lessoned us to weep. | I Milstones, as he lessoned vs to weepe. |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.25 | But, like dumb statuas or breathing stones, | But like dumbe Statues, or breathing Stones, |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.223 | Call them again. I am not made of stone, | Call them againe, I am not made of Stones, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.i.98 | Pity, you ancient stones, those tender babes | Pitty, you ancient Stones, those tender Babes, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.i.103 | So foolish sorrow bids your stones farewell. | So foolish Sorrowes bids your Stones farewell. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.228 | Till it was whetted on thy stone-hard heart | Till it was whetted on thy stone-hard heart, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.251 | A base foul stone, made precious by the foil | A base foule Stone, made precious by the soyle |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iii.54 | A bump as big as a young cockerel's stone, | a bumpe as big as a young Cockrels stone? |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.55 | In shape no bigger than an agate stone | in shape no bigger then Agat-stone, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.v.9 | porter let in Susan Grindstone and Nell. | Porter let in Susan Grindstone, and Nell, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iii.12 | In plants, herbs, stones, and their true qualities. | In Plants, Hearbs, stones, and their true qualities: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.13 | O woe! thy canopy is dust and stones – | O woe, thy Canopie is dust and stones, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.2.87 | Because she brought stone jugs and no sealed quarts. | Because she brought stone-Iugs, and no seal'd quarts: |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.ii.114 | stones more than's artificial one. He is very often like a | stones moe then's artificiall one. Hee is verie often like a |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.vi.86.2 | water and stones | |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.vi.102 | He throws the stones at them, and drives them out | |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.vi.118 | One day he gives us diamonds, next day stones. | One day he giues vs Diamonds, next day stones. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.372 | I am sorry I shall lose a stone by thee. | I am sorry I shall lose a stone by thee. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.373 | He throws a stone at Apemantus | |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.381 | Thy grave-stone daily. Make thine epitaph, | Thy graue stone dayly, make thine Epitaph, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.217 | And let my grave-stone be your oracle. | And let my graue-stone be your Oracle: |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.iv.67 | And on his grave-stone this insculpture which | And on his Grauestone, this Insculpture which |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.29 | And you recount your sorrows to a stone. | And you recount your sorrowes to a stone. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.37 | Therefore I tell my sorrows to the stones, | Therefore I tell my sorrowes bootles to the stones. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.45 | A stone is soft as wax, tribunes, more hard than stones. | A stone is as soft waxe, / Tribunes more hard then stones: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.46 | A stone is silent and offendeth not, | A stone is silent, and offendeth not, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.132 | And on the ragged stones beat forth our souls, | And on the ragged stones beat forth our braines, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.145 | With millstones. | With Milstones. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.184 | When water-drops have worn the stones of Troy, | When water drops haue worne the Stones of Troy; |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.223 | The fall of every Phrygian stone will cost | The fall of euery Phrygian stone will cost |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.ii.76 | Now she sharpens – well said, whetstone! | Now she sharpens: well said Whetstone. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.x.18 | There is a word will Priam turn to stone, | There is a word will Priam turne to stone; |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.80 | ordinary fool that has no more brain than a stone. Look | ordinary foole, that has no more braine then a stone. Looke |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.45 | O for a stone-bow to hit him in the eye! | O for a stone-bow to hit him in the eye. |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.49 | Fire and brimstone! | Fire and Brimstone. |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.ii.19 | to put fire in your heart and brimstone in your liver. You | to put fire in your Heart, and brimstone in your Liuer: you |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.197 | I have said too much unto a heart of stone, | I haue said too much vnto a hart of stone, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.i.139 | token but stones, for she's as hard as steel. | token but stones, for she's as hard as steele. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.ii.111 | I throw thy name against the bruising stones, | I throw thy name against the bruzing-stones, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iii.9 | cur shed one tear. He is a stone, a very pebble-stone, | Curre shedde one teare: he is a stone, a very pibble stone, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.vii.28 | He makes sweet music with th' enamelled stones, | He makes sweet musicke with th' enameld stones, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.ii.79 | Whose golden touch could soften steel and stones, | Whose golden touch could soften steele and stones; |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.129 | Though it were made of stone. Pray have good comfort. | Though it were made of stone: pray have good comfort. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iv.55 | Trotting the stones of Athens, which the calkins | Trotting the stones of Athens, which the Calkins |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.360 | Nor brass, nor stone, nor parchment bears not one, | Nor Brasse, nor Stone, nor Parchment beares not one, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.90.1 | As ever oak or stone was sound. | As euer Oake, or Stone was sound. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.594 | all my trumpery: not a counterfeit stone, not a ribbon, | all my Tromperie: not a counterfeit Stone, not a Ribbon, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.774 | he shall be stoned; but that death is too soft for him, say | hee shall be ston'd: but that death is too soft for him (say |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.799 | more ado. Remember, stoned, and flayed alive! | more adoe. Remember ston'd, and flay'd aliue. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.iii.25 | Chide me, dear stone, that I may say indeed | Chide me (deare Stone) that I may say indeed |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.iii.37 | I am ashamed. Does not the stone rebuke me | I am asham'd: Do's not the Stone rebuke me, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.iii.38 | For being more stone than it? O royal piece! | For being more Stone then it? Oh Royall Peece: |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.iii.42.1 | Standing like stone with thee. | Standing like Stone with thee. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.iii.58 | Would thus have wrought you – for the stone is mine – | Would thus haue wrought you (for the Stone is mine) |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.iii.99 | 'Tis time: descend; be stone no more; approach; | 'Tis time: descend: be Stone no more: approach: |