| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.ix.70 | I mean to stride your steed, and at all times | I meane to stride your Steed, and at all times |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.v.121 | Bestride my threshold. Why, thou Mars, I tell thee | Bestride my Threshold. Why, thou Mars I tell thee, |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iii.35.1 | To stride a limit. | To stride a limit. |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iii.43 | The strides they victors made: and now our cowards | The strides the Victors made: and now our Cowards |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.i.122 | bestride me, so. 'Tis a point of friendship. | bestride me, so; 'tis a point of friendship. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.207 | Tells them he doth bestride a bleeding land, | Tels them, he doth bestride a bleeding Land, |
| Henry V | H5 III.vii.15 | When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk. He trots the | When I bestryde him, I soare, I am a Hawke: he trots the |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.182 | And once again bestride our foaming steeds, | And once againe, bestride our foaming Steeds, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.iv.31 | Bestride the rock; the tide will wash you off, | Bestride the Rock, the Tyde will wash you off, |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.134 | Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world | Why man, he doth bestride the narrow world |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iv.92 | As swift as ever yet thou didst bestride, | As swift as euer yet thou didst bestride, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iv.97 | Bid him today bestride the jade himself, | Bid him to daie bestride the iade himselfe, |
| Macbeth | Mac II.i.55 | With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design | With Tarquins rauishing sides, towards his designe |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.4 | Bestride our down-fallen birthdom. Each new morn | Bestride our downfall Birthdome: each new Morne, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.iv.68 | Into a manly stride, and speak of frays | Into a manly stride; and speake of frayes |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.268 | Nay, rather every tedious stride I make | |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.92 | That every stride he makes upon my land | That euery stride he makes vpon my Land, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.31 | When he bestrides the lazy, puffing clouds | When he bestrides the lazie puffing Cloudes, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.vi.18 | A lover may bestride the gossamers | A Louer may bestride the Gossamours, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.83 | Follow his strides, his lobbies fill with tendance, | Follow his strides, his Lobbies fill with tendance, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.252 | stride and a stand; ruminates like an hostess that hath | stride and a stand: ruminates like an hostesse, that hath |