| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iii.70 | Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, | Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy; |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.i.13 | Under the canopies of costly state, | Vnder the Canopies of costly State, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.106 | I took a costly jewel from my neck – | I tooke a costly Iewell from my necke, |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.165 | To this last costly treaty, th' interview | To this last costly Treaty: Th'enteruiew, |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.258 | Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood! | Woe to the hand that shed this costly Blood. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ix.94 | To show how costly summer was at hand, | To show how costly Sommer was at hand, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.303 | working-days: your grace is too costly to wear every | working-daies, your Grace is too costly to weare euerie |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.1.57 | Some one be ready with a costly suit, | Some one be readie with a costly suite, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.345 | Costly apparel, tents, and canopies, | Costly apparell, tents, and Canopies, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.i.61 | With such a costly loss of wealth and friends. | With such a costly losse of wealth and friends: |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.132 | Will longer last and be more costly than | Will long last, and be more costly then, |