| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.v.2.1 | Of us that trade in love. | of vs that trade in Loue. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.341 | Have you any further trade with us? | Haue you any further Trade with vs? |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.168 | trade that 'a will keep out water a great while, and your | Trade, that he will keepe out water a great while. And your |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.174 | Would lift him where most trade of danger ranged. | Would lift him, where most trade of danger rang'd, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.148 | What trade art thou, Feeble? | What Trade art thou Feeble? |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.192 | Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad; | Others, like Merchants venter Trade abroad: |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.i.36 | Stands in the gap and trade of more preferments, | Stands in the gap and Trade of moe Preferments, |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.i.5 | Of your profession? Speak, what trade art thou? | Of your Profession? Speake, what Trade art thou? |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.i.9 | You, sir, what trade are you? | You sir, what Trade are you? |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.i.12 | But what trade art thou? Answer me directly. | But what Trade art thou? Answer me directly. |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.i.13 | A trade, sir, that, I hope I may use with a safe | A Trade Sir, that I hope I may vse, with a safe |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.i.15 | What trade, thou knave? Thou naughty knave, what trade? | What Trade thou knaue? Thou naughty knaue, what Trade? |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.57 | years o'the trade. | yeares oth'trade. |
| King Lear | KL IV.i.38 | Bad is the trade that must play fool to sorrow, | Bad is the Trade that must play Foole to sorrow, |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.15 | Hangs one that gathers sampire – dreadful trade! | Hangs one that gathers Sampire: dreadfull Trade: |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.112 | Steeped in the colours of their trade, their daggers | Steep'd in the Colours of their Trade; their Daggers |
| Macbeth | Mac III.v.4 | To trade and traffic with Macbeth | To Trade, and Trafficke with Macbeth, |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.ii.108 | change your trade. I'll be your tapster still. Courage, | change your Trade: Ile bee your Tapster still; courage, |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.187 | So. What trade are you of, sir? | So: what trade are you of, sir? |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.214 | bawd? What do you think of the trade, Pompey? Is it a | bawd? what doe you thinke of the trade Pompey? is it a |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.215 | lawful trade? | lawfull trade? |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.244 | The valiant heart's not whipped out of his trade. | The valiant heart's not whipt out of his trade. |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.152 | Thy sin's not accidental, but a trade. | Thy sinn's not accidentall, but a Trade; |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.47 | is a more penitent trade than your bawd. He doth | is a more penitent Trade then your Bawd: he doth |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.52 | trade. Follow! | Trade: follow. |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iii.18 | in our trade, and are now ‘ for the Lord's sake.’ | in our Trade, and are now for the Lords sake. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.iii.30 | Since that the trade and profit of the city | Since that the trade and profit of the citty |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iii.15 | Bardolph, follow him. A tapster is a good trade. | Bardolfe, follow him: a Tapster is a good trade: |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iii.66 | shall be my East and West Indies, and I will trade to | shall be my East and West Indies, and I will trade to |
| Othello | Oth I.ii.1 | Though in the trade of war I have slain men, | Though in the trade of Warre I haue slaine men, |
| Pericles | Per IV.ii.12 | trade, we shall never prosper. | trade, wee shall neuer prosper. |
| Pericles | Per IV.ii.36 | worse. Neither is our profession any trade; it's no | worse, neither is our profession any trade, It's no |
| Pericles | Per IV.vi.63 | at this trade? | at this trade? |
| Pericles | Per IV.vi.64 | What trade, sir? | What trade Sir? |
| Pericles | Per IV.vi.66 | I cannot be offended with my trade. Please you | I cannot be offended with my trade, please you |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.156 | Some way of common trade where subjects' feet | Some way of common Trade, where Subiects feet |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.i.67 | Than hath been taught by any of my trade. | Then hath beene taught by any of my trade, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.134 | Enough to make a whore forswear her trade, | Enough to make a Whore forsweare her Trade, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.457 | over my trade. | ouer my Trade. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.x.52 | Brethren and sisters of the hold-door trade, | Brethren and sisters of the hold-dore trade, |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.i.73 | desirous you should enter, if your trade be to her. | desirous you should enter, if your trade be to her. |