| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.i.6 | Enter a Gentleman, Astringer to the King | Enter a gentle Astringer. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.128 | Enter a Gentleman (the Astringer) | Enter a Gentleman. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xi.57 | My heart was to thy rudder tied by th' strings, | My heart was to thy Rudder tyed by'th'strings, |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.vi.7 | Dissentious numbers pestering streets than see | Dissentious numbers pestring streets, then see |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.iv.17 | I would have broke mine eye-strings, cracked them, but | I would haue broke mine eye-strings; |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.51 | The harlot's cheek, beautied with plastering art, | The Harlots Cheeke beautied with plaist'ring Art |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iii.70 | Bow, stubborn knees, and, heart with strings of steel, | Bow stubborne knees, and heart with strings of Steele, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.237 | A ministering angel shall my sister be | A Ministring Angell shall my Sister be, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.6 | bass string of humility. Sirrah, I am sworn brother to a | base string of humility. Sirra, I am sworn brother to a |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.i.6 | Foretells a tempest and a blustering day. | Fortels a Tempest, and a blust'ring day. |
| Henry V | H5 II.ii.117 | From glistering semblances of piety; | From glist'ring semblances of piety: |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.47 | I kiss his dirty shoe, and from heart-string | I kisse his durtie shooe, and from heartstring |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.vii.13 | Into the clustering battle of the French; | Into the clustring Battaile of the French: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.55 | When such strings jar, what hope of harmony? | When such Strings iarre, what hope of Harmony? |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iii.21 | Than to be perked up in a glistering grief | Then to be perk'd vp in a glistring griefe, |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.105 | I would 'twere something that would fret the string, | I would 'twer somthing yt would fretthe string, |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.289 | The strings, my lord, are false. | The strings my Lord, are false. |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.76 | For if the touch of sweet concordant strings | For if the touch of sweet concordant strlngs, |
| King John | KJ V.i.21 | And make fair weather in your blustering land. | And make faire weather in your blustring land: |
| King John | KJ V.vii.55 | My heart hath one poor string to stay it by, | My heart hath one poore string to stay it by, |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.214 | His grief grew puissant, and the strings of life | |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.218 | body's fostering patron – | bodies fostring patrone: |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.263 | To draw with idle spiders' strings | To draw with ydle Spiders strings |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.ii.103 | Enough; hold, or cut bowstrings. | Enough, hold or cut bow-strings. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.ii.32 | strings to your beards, new ribbons to your pumps. | strings to your beards, new ribbands to your pumps, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.ii.10 | thrice cut Cupid's bowstring and the little hangman | thrice cut Cupids bow-string, and the little hang-man |
| 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. |
| Othello | Oth I.i.3 | As if the strings were thine, shouldst know of this. | As if ye strings were thine, should'st know of this. |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.258 | Though that her jesses were my dear heart-strings, | Though that her Iesses were my deere heart-strings, |
| Pericles | Per I.i.82 | You are a fair viol, and your sense the strings, | You are a faire Violl, and your sense, the stringes; |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.162 | Than an unstringed viol or a harp, | Then an vnstringed Vyall, or a Harpe, |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.149 | His tongue is now a stringless instrument. | His tongue is now a stringlesse instrument, |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.86 | Is mustering in his clouds on our behalf | Is mustring in his Clouds, on our behalfe, |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.178 | Down, down I come like glistering Phaethon, | Downe, downe I come, like glist'ring Phaeton, |
| Richard II | R2 V.v.46 | To check time broke in a disordered string, | To heare time broke in a disorder'd string: |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.364 | Harp not on that string, madam; that is past. | Harpe not on that string Madam, that is past. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.365 | Harp on it still shall I till heart-strings break. | Harpe on it still shall I, till heart-strings breake. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.iii.43 | Lies festering in his shroud; where, as they say, | Lies festring in his shrow'd, where as they say, |
| The Tempest | Tem II.ii.168 | To clust'ring filberts, and sometimes I'll get thee | to clustring Philbirts, and sometimes I'le get thee |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.112 | Vines with clust'ring bunches growing, | Vines, with clustring bunches growing, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iv.46 | And make the silken strings delight to kiss them, | And make the silken strings delight to kisse them, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.109 | Take but degree away, untune that string, | Take but Degree away, vn-tune that string, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.154 | Lies in his hamstring, and doth think it rich | Lies in his Ham-string, and doth thinke it rich |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.8 | To doubtful fortunes; sequest'ring from me all | To doubtfull fortunes, sequestring from me all |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.ii.176 | Constringed in mass by the almighty sun, | Constring'd in masse by the almighty Fenne, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.vii.45 | No, girl, I'll knit it up in silken strings | No girle, Ile knit it vp in silken strings, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.ii.58 | How? Out of tune on the strings? | How, out of tune on the strings. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.ii.60 | heart-strings. | heart-strings. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.146 | Lie blistering 'fore the visitating sun, | Ly blistring fore the visitating Sunne, |