| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.ii.17 | close-stool, to give to a nobleman! Look, here he comes | close-stoole, to giue to a Nobleman. Looke heere he comes |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.vii.56.1 | Rise from thy stool. | Rise from thy stoole. |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iii.1.2 | Martius. They set them down on two low stools and sew | Martius: They set them downe on two lowe stooles and sowe. |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iii.89 | When on my three-foot stool I sit, and tell | When on my three-foot stoole I sit, and tell |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.373 | Thy state is taken for a joint-stool, thy | Thy State is taken for a Ioyn'd-Stoole, thy |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.242 | wild mare with the boys, and jumps upon joint-stools, | wilde-Mare with the Boyes, and iumpes vpon Ioyn'd-stooles, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.138 | Now fetch me a stool hither by and by. | Now fetch me a Stoole hither by and by. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.140 | leap me over this stool and run away. | leape me ouer this Stoole, and runne away. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.145 | stool. | Stoole. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.150.2 | stool and runs away; and they follow and cry ‘ A | Stoole, and runnes away: and they follow, and cry, A |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.vii.14 | And made our footstool of security. | And made our Footstoole of Security. |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iii.1.1 | A council-table brought in with chairs and stools, and | A Councell Table brought in with Chayres and Stooles, and |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.102 | And my estate the footstool where she treads; | And my estate the footstoole where shee treads, |
| King Lear | KL III.vi.51 | Cry you mercy, I took you for a joint-stool. | |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.574 | pole-axe sitting on a close-stool, will be given to Ajax. | Pollax sitting on a close stoole, will be giuen to Aiax. |
| Macbeth | Mac III.iv.67.1 | You look but on a stool. | You looke but on a stoole. |
| Macbeth | Mac III.iv.81 | And push us from our stools. This is more strange | And push vs from our stooles. This is more strange |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.52 | Sometime for three-foot stool mistaketh me; | Sometime for three-foot stoole, mistaketh me, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.ii.2 | O, a stool and a cushion for the Sexton. | O a stoole and a cushion for the Sexton. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.v.6 | Away with the joint-stools; remove | Away with the Ioynstooles, remoue |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.64 | To comb your noddle with a three-legged stool, | To combe your noddle with a three-legg'd stoole, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.198.1 | A joint-stool. | A ioyn'd stoole. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.vi.66 | Each man to his stool, with that spur as he would | Each man to his stoole, with that spurre as hee would |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.i.20 | Toadstool, learn me the proclamation. | Toads stoole, learne me the Proclamation. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.i.41 | Thou stool for a witch! | Thou stoole for a Witch. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.v.69 | (she sings) | Chaire and stooles out. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.v.99 | A chair and stools are brought out; the ladies sit | |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.ii.72.2 | Why, play at stool-ball. | Why play at stoole ball, |