| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.v.73 | stop up the displeasure he hath conceived against your | stoppe vp the displeasure he hath conceiued against your |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.ii.10 | Nay, you need not to stop your nose, sir. I | Nay you neede not to stop your nose sir: I |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.ii.12 | Indeed, sir, if your metaphor stink I will stop my | Indeed sir, if your Metaphor stinke, I will stop my |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.39 | Against the blown rose may they stop their nose | Against the blowne Rose may they stop their nose, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.181 | And send to darkness all that stop me. Come, | And send to darkenesse all that stop me. Come, |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.i.152 | and 'twill out at the key-hole; stop that, 'twill fly with | and 'twill out at the key-hole: stop that, 'twill flie with |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.ii.53 | Stop in your wind, sir. Tell me this, I pray: | Stop in your winde sir, tell me this I pray? |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.ii.172 | I'll stop mine ears against the mermaid's song. | Ile stop mine eares against the Mermaids song. |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.ii.101 | I cannot speak him home. He stopped the fliers, | I cannot speake him home: he stopt the flyers, |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.32.2 | Stop, | Stop, |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.v.89 | Thine own particular wrongs and stop those maims | Thine owne particular wrongs, and stop those maimes |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.i.39.1 | Might stop our countryman. | Might stop our Countryman. |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iii.5 | You have respected; stopped your ears against | you haue respected, / Stopt your eares against |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vii.99.1 | What both you spur and stop. | What both you spur and stop. |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iii.40 | A stop i'th' chaser; a retire: anon | A stop i'th'Chaser; a Retyre: Anon |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iii.42 | Chickens, the way which they stooped eagles: slaves, | Chickens, the way which they stopt Eagles: Slaues |
| Hamlet | Ham I.i.140.2 | Stay and speak. Stop it, Marcellus. | Stay, and speake. Stop it Marcellus. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.19 | you o'erstep not the modesty of nature. For anything so | you ore-stop not the modestie of Nature; for any thing so |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.81 | To sound what stop she please. Give me that man | To sound what stop she please. Giue me that man, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.368 | these are the stops. | these are the stoppes. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.373 | to know my stops. You would pluck out the heart of my | to know my stops: you would pluck out the heart of my |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.201 | till 'a find it stopping a bunghole? | till he find it stopping a bunghole. |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.208 | might they not stop a beer barrel? | might they not stopp a Beere-barrell? |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.210 | Might stop a hole to keep the wind away. | Might stop a hole to keepe the winde away. |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.261 | Set me the stoups of wine upon that table. | Set me the Stopes of wine vpon that Table: |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.387 | For tears do stop the floodgates of her eyes. | For teares doe stop the floud-gates of her eyes. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.i.71 | And stop all sight-holes, every loop from whence | And stop all sight-holes, euery loope, from whence |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.iv.82 | Must have a stop. O, I could prophesy, | Must haue a stop. O, I could Prophesie, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 induction.1 | Open your ears, for which of you will stop | Open your Eares: For which of you will stop |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 induction.17 | And of so easy and so plain a stop | And of so easie, and so plaine a stop, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.38 | That stopped by me to breathe his bloodied horse. | That stopp'd by me, to breath his bloodied horse. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.78 | Stopping my greedy ear with their bold deeds. | Stopping my greedy eare, with their bold deeds. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.79 | But in the end, to stop my ear indeed, | But in the end (to stop mine Eare indeed) |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.41 | mouth as offer to stop it with security. I looked 'a should | mouth, as offer to stoppe it with Security. I look'd hee should haue |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.65 | And purge th' obstructions which begin to stop | And purge th' obstructions, which begin to stop |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.i.20 | had. And, sir, do you mean to stop any of William's | had: And Sir, doe you meane to stoppe any of Williams |
| Henry V | H5 II.iv.69 | Turn head, and stop pursuit, for coward dogs | Turne head, and stop pursuit: for coward Dogs |
| Henry V | H5 IV.vi.29 | Those waters from me which I would have stopped; | Those waters from me, which I would haue stop'd, |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.269 | stops the mouth of all find-faults – as I will do yours for | stoppes the mouth of all finde-faults, as I will doe yours, for |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.iii.25 | Doth stop my cornets, were in Talbot's place! | Doth stop my Cornets, were in Talbots place, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.iii.41 | Away! Vexation almost stops my breath | Away, vexation almost stoppes my breath, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.i.9 | To stop effusion of our Christian blood | To stop effusion of our Christian blood, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.285 | Send succours, lords, and stop the rage betime, | Send Succours (Lords) and stop the Rage betime, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.288 | A breach that craves a quick expedient stop! | A Breach that craues a quick expedient stoppe. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.396 | To have thee with thy lips to stop my mouth; | To haue thee with thy lippes to stop my mouth: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.ii.83 | May readily be stopped. | May readily be stopt. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iii.22 | Hath stopped the passage where thy words should enter. | hath stopt the passage / Where thy words should enter. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.vi.58 | Now death shall stop his dismal threatening sound | Now death shall stop his dismall threatning sound, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.52 | Why stops my lord? Shall I not hear my task? | Why stoppes my Lord? shall I not heare my Taske? |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.14 | And stops my tongue, while heart is drowned in cares. | And stops my tongue, while heart is drown'd in cares. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.iv.22 | And stop the rising of blood-sucking sighs, | And stop the rising of blood-sucking sighes, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.viii.39 | I have not stopped mine ears to their demands, | I haue not stopt mine eares to their demands, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.viii.55 | Now stops thy spring; my sea shall suck them dry, | Now stops thy Spring, my Sea shall suck them dry, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.i.152 | To stop the rumour and allay those tongues | To stop the rumor; and allay those tongues |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.ii.8 | King; which stopped our mouths, sir. | King, which stop'd our mouthes Sir. |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.114 | Stops on a sudden, looks upon the ground, | Stops on a sodaine, lookes vpon the ground, |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.116 | Springs out into fast gait; then stops again, | Springs out into fast gate, then stops againe, |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iii.23 | But stop their mouths with stubborn bits and spur 'em | But stop their mouthes with stubborn Bits & spurre'em, |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.i.32 | To wind, to stop, to run directly on, | To winde, to stop, to run directly on: |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.ii.6 | Famine shall combat where our swords are stopped. | Famine shall combate where our swords are stopt. |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.10 | Mine ears are stopped against your bootless cries. | Mine eares are stopt against your bootelesse cryes, |
| King John | KJ II.i.558 | That we shall stop her exclamation. | That we shall stop her exclamation, |
| King John | KJ II.i.562 | John, to stop Arthur's title in the whole, | Iohn to stop Arthurs Title in the whole, |
| King John | KJ III.i.299 | Will not a calf's-skin stop that mouth of thine? | Will not a Calues-skin stop that mouth of thine? |
| King John | KJ III.iv.32 | And stop this gap of breath with fulsome dust, | And stop this gap of breath with fulsome dust, |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.120 | Is stopped with dust. The first of April died | Is stopt with dust: the first of Aprill di'de |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.239 | Yea, without stop, didst let thy heart consent, | Yea, without stop, didst let thy heart consent, |
| King John | KJ V.i.7 | To stop their marches 'fore we are inflamed. | To stop their marches 'fore we are enflam'd: |
| King John | KJ V.vii.67 | Even so must I run on, and even so stop. | Euen so must I run on, and euen so stop. |
| King Lear | KL II.i.36.1 | Stop, stop! – No help? | Stop, stop, no helpe? |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.152 | Will not be rubbed nor stopped. I'll entreat for thee. | Will not be rub'd nor stopt, Ile entreat for thee. |
| King Lear | KL III.vi.53 | What store her heart is made on. Stop her there! | |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.153 | Or with this paper shall I stop it – Hold, sir! | Or with this paper shall I stop it: hold Sir, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.70 | These be the stops that hinder study quite, | These be the stops that hinder studie quite, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.95 | Proceeded well, to stop all good proceeding. | Proceeded well, to stop all good proceeding. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.312 | When the suspicious head of theft is stopped. | When the suspicious head of theft is stopt. |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iii.76 | Upon this blasted heath you stop our way | Vpon this blasted Heath you stop our way |
| Macbeth | Mac I.v.42 | Stop up the access and passage to remorse, | Stop vp th' accesse, and passage to Remorse, |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.96 | Is stopped, the very source of it is stopped. | Is stopt, the very Source of it is stopt. |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.iv.25 | Come all to help him, and so stop the air | Come all to help him, and so stop the ayre |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.v.33 | But stop my house's ears, I mean my casements; | But stop my houses eares, I meane my casements, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.vii.46 | To stop the foreign spirits, but they come | To stop the forraine spirits, but they come |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.i.15 | Come, the full stop! | Come, the full stop. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.255 | To stop his wounds, lest he do bleed to death. | To stop his wounds, least he should bleede to death. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.123 | How now, Mephostophilus? | How now, Mephostophilus? |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iii.154 | the fox. Let me stop this way first. | the Fox. Let me stop this way first: |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.v.103 | be stopped in, like a strong distillation, with stinking | be stopt in like a strong distillation with stinking |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.120 | knows not the stop. A good moral, my lord: it is not | knowes not the stop. A good morall my Lord. It is not |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.286 | Speak, cousin; or, if you cannot, stop his mouth | Speake cosin, or (if you cannot) stop his mouth |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.ii.55 | into a lute-string and now governed by stops. | into a lute-string, and now gouern'd by stops. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.iv.97 | Peace! I will stop your mouth. | Peace I will stop your mouth. |
| Othello | Oth II.i.191 | It stops me here; it is too much of joy. | It stoppes me heere: it is too much of ioy. |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.2 | Let's teach ourselves that honourable stop, | Let's teach our selues that Honourable stop, |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.27 | I have a stoup of wine; and here without are a brace of | I haue a stope of Wine, and heere without are a brace of |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.296 | an answer would stop them all. To be now a sensible | an answer would stop them all. To be now a sensible |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.119 | Therefore these stops of thine affright me more: | Therefore these stops of thine, fright me the more: |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.76 | Heaven stops the nose at it, and the moon winks; | Heauen stoppes the Nose at it, and the Moone winks: |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.72.2 | No, his mouth is stopped: | No: his mouth is stopp'd: |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.201 | Whose breath indeed these hands have newly stopped. | Whose breath (indeed) these hands haue newly stopp'd: |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.262 | Than twenty times your stop. but, O vain boast! – | Then twenty times your stop. But (oh vaine boast) |
| Pericles | Per I.i.101 | To stop the air would hurt them. The blind mole casts | To stop the Ayre would hurt them, the blind Mole castes |
| Pericles | Per I.ii.23 | He'll stop the course by which it might be known. | Heele stop the course by which it might be knowne, |
| Pericles | Per I.ii.98 | How I might stop this tempest ere it came; | How I might stop this tempest ere it came, |
| Pericles | Per IV.ii.76 | difference of all complexions. What! do you stop your | difference of all complexions, what doe you stop your |
| Pericles | Per V.i.45 | Which now are midway stopped. | which now are midway stopt, |
| Pericles | Per V.i.160.2 | O, stop there a little! | O stop there a little, |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.230 | But stop no wrinkle in his pilgrimage. | But stop no wrinkle in his pilgrimage: |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.17 | No, it is stopped with other, flattering sounds, | No, it is stopt with other flatt'ring sounds |
| Richard II | R2 V.i.95 | One kiss shall stop our mouths, and dumbly part. | One Kisse shall stop our mouthes, and dumbely part; |
| Richard II | R2 V.ii.4.2 | At that sad stop, my lord, | At that sad stoppe, my Lord, |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.35 | To stop devoted charitable deeds? | To stop deuoted charitable deeds? |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.38 | Stopped in my soul, and would not let it forth | Stop'd in my soule, and would not let it forth |
| Richard III | R3 III.v.3 | And then again begin, and stop again, | And then againe begin, and stop againe, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.ii.45 | And stops he now for breath? Well, be it so. | And stops he now for breath? Well, be it so. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.ii.58 | To stop all hopes whose growth may damage me. | To stop all hopes, whose growth may dammage me. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iii.16 | But O! The devil ’ – there the villain stopped; | But oh the Diuell, there the Villaine stopt: |
| Richard III | R3 IV.v.1.1 | Enter Earl of Derby, and Sir Christopher Urswick, | Enter Derby, and Sir Christopher. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.v.1 | Sir Christopher, tell Richmond this from me: | Sir Christopher, tell Richmond this from me, |
| Richard III | R3 V.v.40 | Now civil wounds are stopped, peace lives again; | Now Ciuill wounds are stopp'd, Peace liues agen; |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.69 | Therefore thy kinsmen are no stop to me. | Therefore thy kinsmen are no stop to me. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.91 | Stop there, stop there! | Stop there, stop there. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.92 | Thou desirest me to stop in my tale against | Thou desir'st me to stop in my tale against |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.i.12 | To stop the inundation of her tears, | To stop the inundation of her teares, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.54 | Stop thy unhallowed toil, vile Montague! | Stop thy vnhallowed toyle, vile Mountague: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.211 | Grief of my son's exile hath stopped her breath. | Griefe of my Sonnes exile hath stopt her breath: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.1.0 | Enter Christopher Sly and the Hostess | Enter Begger and Hostes, Christophero Sly. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.2.5 | I am Christophero Sly, call not me ‘ honour ’ nor ‘ lordship.’ | I am Christophero Sly, call not mee Honour nor Lordship: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.2.16 | What, would you make me mad? Am not I Christopher | What would you make me mad? Am not I Christopher |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.2.72 | And not a tinker nor Christophero Sly. | And not a Tinker, nor Christopher Slie. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.ii.234 | That stops my way in Padua. Grumio, | That stops my way in Padua: Grumio |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.76 | And if you cannot, best you stop your ears. | And If you cannot, best you stop your eares. |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.34 | Begun to tell me what I am, but stopped, | Begun to tell me what I am, but stopt |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.61 | For you are spell-stopped. | For you are Spell-stopt. |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.198.2 | There, sir, stop. | There Sir stop, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.ii.1 | No care, no stop, so senseless of expense | No care, no stop, so senselesse of expence, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.ii.152 | And what remains will hardly stop the mouth | And what remaines will hardly stop the mouth |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.208 | To stop affliction, let him take his haste, | To stop Affliction, let him take his haste; |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.184.2 | Nay then, I'll stop your mouth. | Nay then Ile stop your mouth |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iv.36 | Sorrow concealed, like an oven stopped, | Sorrow concealed, like an Ouen stopt, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.i.151 | Sirs, stop his mouth and let him speak no more. | Sirs stop his mouth, & let him speake no more. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.160 | And stop their mouths, if they begin to cry. | |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.163 | Stop close their mouths, let them not speak a word. | Stop close their mouthes, let them not speake a word, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.166 | Sirs, stop their mouths. Let them not speak to me, | Sirs stop their mouthes, let them not speake to me, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.i.79 | As will stop the eye of Helen's needle, for | As will stop the eye of Helens Needle, for |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.131 | My soul of counsel from me! – Stop my mouth. | My soule of counsell from me. Stop my mouth. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.iii.2 | To stop his ears against admonishment? | To stop his eares against admonishment? |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.iii.57 | Opposed to hinder me, should stop my way, | Oppos'd to hinder me, should stop my way: |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iii.116 | your chain with crumbs. A stoup of wine, Maria! | your Chaine with crums. A stope of Wine Maria. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iii.43 | stop my mouth? | stop my mouth? |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.vii.26 | Thou knowest, being stopped, impatiently doth rage; | (Thou know'st) being stop'd, impatiently doth rage: |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.205 | My ears are stopped and cannot hear good news, | My eares are stopt, & cannot hear good newes, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.345 | Stop there; I'll have her; she was mine and not | Stop there: Ile haue her: she was mine, and not |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.v.84.1 | Stop no more holes but what you should. | Stop no more holes, but what you should. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.173 | If unto neither thou show mercy. Stop, | If unto neither thou shew mercy, stop, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.286 | Kissing with inside lip? Stopping the career | Kissing with in-side Lip? stopping the Cariere |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.187 | Shall stop or spur me. Have I done well? | Shall stop, or spurre me. Haue I done well? |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.i.200 | Bohemia stops his ears, and threatens them | Bohemia stops his eares, and threatens them |