| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.v.10 | flesh and cost me the dearest groans of a mother I | flesh and cost mee the deerest groanes of a mother, I |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.iv.37 | Choose your own company, and command what cost | Choose your owne company, and command what cost |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.76 | The cost of princes on unworthy shoulders? | The cost of Princes on vnworthy shoulders? |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.80 | That says his bravery is not on my cost, | That sayes his brauerie is not on my cost, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.i.123 | Do so. – This jest shall cost me some expense. | Do so, this iest shall cost me some expence. |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.vii.53.1 | What pain it cost, what danger! Gods! | What paine it cost, what danger: Gods! |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.258 | It would cost you a groaning to take off mine | It would cost you a groaning, to take off my |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.90 | see't. Did these bones cost no more the breeding but | see't. Did these bones cost no more the breeding, but |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.90 | Whose tongue shall ask me for one penny cost | Whose tongue shall aske me for one peny cost |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.iii.44 | Then must we rate the cost of the erection, | Then must we rate the cost of the Erection, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.iii.60 | Gives o'er and leaves his part-created cost | Giues o're, and leaues his part-created Cost |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.i.11 | It may chance cost some of us our lives, for he will | It may chance cost some of vs our liues: he wil |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.11 | Indeed, sir, to my cost. | Indeede Sir, to my cost. |
| Henry V | H5 IV.iii.25 | Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost; | Nor care I who doth feed vpon my cost: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.74 | One would have lingering wars with little cost; | One would haue lingring Warres, with little cost; |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iii.82 | Gloucester, we'll meet to thy cost, be sure; | Gloster, wee'le meet to thy cost, be sure: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.iv.43 | When thou shalt see I'll meet thee to thy cost. | When thou shalt see, Ile meet thee to thy cost. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.60 | cost and charges, without having any dowry. | Cost and Charges, without hauing any Dowry. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iii.129 | Have cost a mass of public treasury. | Haue cost a masse of publique Treasurie. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.vi.3 | of the city's cost, the Pissing Conduit run nothing | of the Cities cost / The pissing Conduit run nothing |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.268 | Will cost my crown, and like an empty eagle | Will cost my Crowne, and like an emptie Eagle, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.ii.177 | These words will cost ten thousand lives this day. | These words will cost ten thousand liues this day. |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.89.1 | The cost that did conclude it. | The Cost that did conclude it. |
| King Edward III | E3 I.ii.153 | His pride, perfumes, and parti-coloured cost, | His pride perfumes, and party colloured cost, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.62 | Near to the coast I have descried, my lord, | Neere to the cost I haue discribde my Lord, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.101 | Here in the middle coast, betwixt you both, | Heere in the middle cost betwixtyou both, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.ii.14 | And will be met, I warrant ye, to their cost, | And will be met I warrant ye to their cost, |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.171.1 | Cost him his eyes. | Cost him his eyes. |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.iii.10 | Where youth and cost a witless bravery keeps. | Where youth, and cost, witlesse brauery keepes. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.i.77 | cost me two thousand ducats in Frankfurt! The curse | cost me two thousand ducats in Franckford, the curse |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.iv.19 | How little is the cost I have bestowed | How little is the cost I haue bestowed |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.145 | shovel-boards, that cost me two shillings and twopence | Shouelboords, that cost me two shilling and two pence |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.82 | have caught the Benedick, it will cost him a thousand | haue caught the Benedict, it will cost him a thousand |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.90 | your trouble? The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, | your trouble: the fashion of the world is to auoid cost, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.343 | My lord, I am for you, though it cost me ten | My Lord, I am for you, though it cost mee ten |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.85 | His breeches cost him but a crown; | His Breeches cost him but a Crowne, |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.253 | (within) If thou attempt it, it will cost thee dear; | If thou attempt it, it will cost thee deere; |
| Pericles | Per III.ii.69 | This queen, worth all our mundane cost. | This Queene, worth all our mundaine cost: |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.259 | Will maintain it with some little cost. | I will maintaine it with some little cost. |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.325 | Long kept in Britain at our mother's cost? | Long kept in Britaine at our Mothers cost, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.iv.6.1 | Spare not for cost. | Spare not for cost. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.127 | Hath cost me a hundred crowns since supper-time. | Hath cost me fiue hundred crownes since supper time. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.128 | And I have bred her at my dearest cost | And I haue bred her at my deerest cost |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.215 | cost a man a doit. | cast a man a Doit. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.52 | She is not worth what she doth cost the holding. | she is not worth / What she doth cost the holding. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.223 | The fall of every Phrygian stone will cost | The fall of euery Phrygian stone will cost |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.viii.2 | Thy goodly armour thus hath cost thy life. | Thy goodly armour thus hath cost thy life. |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.316 | Here at my house, and at my proper cost. | Heere at my house, and at my proper cost. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.v.127 | And his fat spouse, that welcomes to their cost | And his fat Spowse, that welcomes to their cost |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iv.110 | That we should things desire which do cost us | That we should things desire, which doe cost us |