| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.160 | sexton here, man and boy, thirty years. | sixeteene heere, man and Boy thirty yeares. |
| King John | KJ III.i.324 | Old Time the clock-setter, that bald sexton Time, | Old Time the clocke setter, yt bald sexton Time: |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.ii.1.1 | Enter Dogberry, Verges, and the Sexton, in gowns; | Enter the Constables, Borachio, and the Towne Clerke in gownes. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.ii.2 | O, a stool and a cushion for the Sexton. | O a stoole and a cushion for the Sexton. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.ii.68 | God's my life, where's the Sexton? Let him | Gods my life, where's the Sexton? let him |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.241 | our Sexton hath reformed Signor Leonato of the matter. | our Sexton hath reformed Signior Leonato of the matter: |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.245 | the Sexton too. | the Sexton too. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.245 | Enter Leonato and Antonio, with the Sexton | Enter Leonato. |
| Pericles | Per II.i.37 | sexton, I would have been that day in the belfry. | Sexton, I would haue been that day in the belfrie. |