| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.ii.115 | three quarters – that's an ell and three quarters – will | three quarters, that's an Ell and three quarters, will |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.iii.71 | shillings an ell! You owe money here besides, Sir John, | shillings an Ell: You owe Money here besides, Sir Iohn, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.ii.59 | The dogs did yell; put ‘ L ’ to sore, then sorel jumps from thicket; | The Dogges did yell, put ell to Sore, then Sorell iumps from thicket: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.ii.61 | If sore be sore, then ‘ L ’ to sore makes fifty sores o' sorel: | If Sore be sore, then ell to Sore, makes fiftie sores O sorell: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.83 | an inch narrow to an ell broad! | an ynch narrow, to an ell broad. |