| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.172 | That blinking Cupid gossips. Now shall he – | That blinking Cupid gossips. Now shall he: |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.406 | Go to a gossips' feast, and go with me. | Go to a Gossips feast, and go with mee, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.408 | With all my heart I'll gossip at this feast. | With all my heart, Ile Gossip at this feast. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.420 | Will you walk in to see their gossiping? | Will you walke in to see their gossipping? |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.159 | A chalice for the nonce, whereon but sipping, | A Challice for the nonce; whereon but sipping, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.i.92 | wife come in then and call me gossip Quickly? – coming | wife come in then, and cal me gossip Quickly? comming |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.v.12 | My noble gossips, you've been too prodigal; | My Noble Gossips, y'haue beene too Prodigall; |
| King John | KJ V.ii.59 | Full warm of blood, of mirth, of gossiping. | Full warm of blood, of mirth, of gossipping: |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.147 | dissipation of cohorts, nuptial breaches, and I know not | |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.i.6 | lie buried as they say, if my gossip Report be an honest | lye buried, as they say, if my gossips report be an honest |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.i.8 | I would she were as lying a gossip in that as | I would she were as lying a gossip in that, as |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.73 | as sip on a cup with the proudest of them all, and yet | as sippe on a cup with the prowdest of them all, and yet |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.ii.8 | What ho, gossip Ford. What ho! | What hoa, gossip Ford: what hoa. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.47 | And sometime lurk I in a gossip's bowl | And sometime lurke I in a Gossips bole, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.125 | Full often hath she gossiped by my side, | Full often hath she gossipt by my side, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.179 | leave you now to your gossip-like humour; you break | leaue you now to your gossep-like humor, you breake |
| Richard III | R3 I.i.83 | Are mighty gossips in this monarchy. | Are mighty Gossips in our Monarchy. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.i.11 | Speak to my gossip Venus one fair word, | Speake to my goship Venus one faire word, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.171 | Good Prudence. Smatter with your gossips, go! | Good Prudence, smatter with your gossip, go. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.174 | Utter your gravity o'er a gossip's bowl, | Vtter your grauitie ore a Gossips bowles |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.144 | Will deign to sip or touch one drop of it. | Will daigne to sip, or touch one drop of it. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.149 | A long-tongued, babbling gossip? No, lords, no. | A long tongu'd babling Gossip? No Lords no: |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.262 | And make the babbling gossip of the air | And make the babling Gossip of the aire, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.268 | gossips; yet 'tis a maid, for she is her master's maid and | Gossips: yet 'tis a maid, for she is her Masters maid, and |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.ii.26 | Food took I none these two days; sipped some water. | Food tooke I none these two daies. / Sipt some water. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.41.1 | About some gossips for your highness. | About some Gossips for your Highnesse. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.62 | She would to each one sip. You are retired, | She would to each one sip. You are retyred, |