| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.ii.55 | O yes, if any hour meet a sergeant 'a turns back for very fear. |
Oh yes, if any houre meete a Serieant, a turnes backe for
verie feare. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.ii.60 | If 'a be in debt and theft, and a sergeant in the way, |
If I be in debt and theft, and a Serieant in the way, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iii.30 | Ay, sir, the sergeant of the band | I sir, the Serieant of the Band: |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iii.39 | and then were you hindered by the sergeant to tarry for | and then were you hindred by the Serieant to tarry for |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.330 | Had I but time – as this fell sergeant, Death, | Had I but time (as this fell Sergeant death |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.i.1.1 | Enter a French Sergeant of a Band, with two | Enter a Sergeant of a Band, with two |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.i.5.1 | Sergeant, you shall. | Sergeant you shall. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.i.5 | Exit Sergeant | |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.vii.22 | thou say, thou serge, nay, thou buckram lord! Now art | thou Say, thou Surge, nay thou Buckram Lord, now art |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.198.1.1 | Enter Brandon, a Sergeant-at-Arms before him, and | Enter Brandon, a Sergeant at Armes before him, and |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.198.1 | Your office, sergeant: execute it. | Your Office Sergeant: execute it. |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.1.10 | Sergeant-at-Arms bearing a silver mace; then two | Sergeant at Armes, bearing a Siluer Mace: Then two |
| Macbeth | Mac I.ii.3.2 | This is the sergeant | This is the Serieant, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.v.110 | and cooled, glowing hot, in that surge, like a horse-shoe. | and coold, glowing-hot, in that serge like a Horse-shoo; |