| 2H6 IV.vi.3 | [Cade to all] of the city's cost, the Pissing Conduit run nothing but claret wine this first year of our reign |
| AC III.iv.37 | [Antony to Octavia] Choose your own company, and command what cost / Your heart has mind to |
| AYL II.vii.76 | [Jaques to Duke Senior] the city woman bears / The cost of princes on unworthy shoulders [i.e. she should not try to live like a princess] |
| AYL II.vii.80 | [Jaques to Duke Senior] what is he of basest function, / That says his bravery is not on my cost [i.e. not bought at my expense] |
| H5 IV.iii.25 | [King Henry to Westmorland] Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost |
| MA I.i.90 | [Don Pedro to Leonato] The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it |
| MM I.iii.10 | [Duke to Friar Thomas] I have ever ... held in idle price to haunt assemblies / Where youth and cost a witless bravery keeps |
| RJ IV.iv.6.1 | [Capulet, possibly to Nurse or Lady Capulet] Look to the baked meats, good Angelica. / Spare not for cost |