| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| 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. |
| Hamlet | Ham II.i.9 | What company, at what expense; and finding | What company, at what expence: and finding |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.76 | A third thinks, without expense at all, | A third thinkes, without expence at all, |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.108 | To his own portion! And what expense by th' hour | To his owne portion? And what expence by'th'houre |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.ii.21 | That so expense of victuals may be saved. | That so expence of victuals may be saued. |
| King Lear | KL II.i.99 | To have th' expense and waste of his revenues. | To haue th'expence and wast of his Reuenues: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.520 | Anointed, I implore so much expense of thy | Annointed, I implore so much expence of thy |
| Macbeth | Mac V.vi.99 | We shall not spend a large expense of time | We shall not spend a large expence of time, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.136 | yet look after thee? Wilt thou, after the expense of so | yet looke after thee? wilt thou after the expence of so |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iv.5 | And that, my state being galled with my expense, | And that my state being gall'd with my expence, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.249 | If I have thanks it is a dear expense. | If I haue thankes, it is a deere expence: |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.III.20 | That horse and sail and high expense | That horse and sayle and hie expence, |
| Pericles | Per IV.iii.46.1 | At whose expense 'tis done. | at whose expence tis done. |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.V.19 | His banners sable, trimmed with rich expense; | His banners Sable, trim'd with rich expence, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.ii.1 | No care, no stop, so senseless of expense | No care, no stop, so senselesse of expence, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.ii.131 | That I might so have rated my expense | That I might so haue rated my expence |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.4 | As honour, loss of time, travail, expense, | (As honour, losse of time, trauaile, expence, |