| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.19 | almost as great as his honesty; had it stretched so far, | almost as great as his honestie, had it stretch'd so far, |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.233 | There lay he, stretched along like a wounded | There lay hee stretch'd along like a Wounded |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.ii.74 | And thus far having stretched it – here be with them – | And thus farre hauing stretcht it (here be with them) |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.vi.45 | For which my sinews shall be stretched upon him. | For which my sinewes shall be stretcht vpon him, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.263 | and outstretched heroes the beggars' shadows. Shall | and out-stretcht Heroes the Beggers Shadowes: shall |
| Henry V | H5 II.iv.82 | And all wide-stretched honours that pertain | And all wide-stretched Honors, that pertaine |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.171 | His hair upreared, his nostrils stretched with struggling; | His hayre vprear'd, his nostrils stretcht with strugling: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.68 | That raught at mountains with outstretched arms, | That raught at Mountaines with out-stretched Armes, |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.ii.204 | He stretched him, and, with one hand on his dagger, | He stretch'd him, and with one hand on his dagger, |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.ii.66 | Have I in conquest stretched mine arm so far, | Haue I in Conquest stretcht mine Arme so farre, |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.i.44 | Our best friends made, our means stretched; | Our best Friends made, our meanes stretcht, |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.iv.153 | Or with an outstretched throat I'll tell the world | Or with an out-stretcht throate Ile tell the world aloud |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.93 | The ox hath therefore stretched his yoke in vain, | The Oxe hath therefore stretch'd his yoake in vaine, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.80 | Extremely stretched, and conned with cruel pain, | Extreamely stretcht, and cond with cruell paine, |
| Pericles | Per V.i.52 | We have stretched thus far, let us beseech you | wee haue stretcht thus farre, let vs beseech you, |
| Richard III | R3 III.v.81 | Which stretched unto their servants, daughters, wives, | Which stretcht vnto their Seruants, Daughters, Wiues, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.iii.3 | Timon is dead, who hath outstretched his span. | Tymon is dead, who hath out-stretcht his span, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.61 | (To Nestor) And thou most reverend for thy stretched-out life – | And thou most reuerend for thy stretcht-out life, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.156 | 'Twixt his stretched footing and the scaffoldage, | 'Twixt his stretcht footing, and the Scaffolage, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.167 | And with his arms outstretched, as he would fly, | And with his armes out-stretcht, as he would flye, |