| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.270 | Sir, for a cardecue he will sell the fee-simple | Sir, for a Cardceue he will sell the fee-simple |
| As You Like It | AYL III.v.60 | Sell when you can, you are not for all markets. | Sell when you can, you are not for all markets: |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iii.8 | kings' entreaties a mother should not sell him an hour | Kings entreaties, a Mother should not sel him an houre |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iv.6 | No, I'll nor sell nor give him. Lend you him I will | No, Ile nor sel, nor giue him: Lend you him I will |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.ii.10 | To buy and sell with groats, to show bare heads | To buy and sell with Groats, to shew bare heads |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iii.82 | Sell me your good report. | Sell me your good report. |
| Henry V | H5 II.chorus.5 | They sell the pasture now to buy the horse, | They sell the Pasture now, to buy the Horse; |
| Henry V | H5 II.ii.10 | That he should, for a foreign purse, so sell | That he should for a forraigne purse, so sell |
| Henry V | H5 III.v.12 | Unfought withal, but I will sell my dukedom | Vnfought withall, but I will sell my Dukedome, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.iii.91 | Bid them achieve me, and then sell my bones. | Bid them atchieue me, and then sell my bones. |
| Henry V | H5 IV.iii.93 | The man that once did sell the lion's skin | The man that once did sell the Lyons skin |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.ii.15 | Poor market folks that come to sell their corn. | Poore Market folkes that come to sell their Corne. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.ii.53 | Sell every man his life as dear as mine, | Sell euery man his life as deere as mine, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.92 | Or sell my title for a glorious grave. | Or sell my Title for a glorious Graue. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.i.41 | Therefore, when merchant-like I sell revenge, | Therefore, when Merchant-like I sell reuenge, |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.192 | Does buy and sell his honour as he pleases, | Does buy and sell his Honour as he pleases, |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.11 | To sell and mart your offices for gold | To sell, and Mart your Offices for Gold |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.25 | And sell the mighty space of our large honours | And sell the mighty space of our large Honors |
| King John | KJ I.i.153 | Yet sell your face for fivepence and 'tis dear. | Yet sell your face for fiue pence and 'tis deere: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.101 | To sell a bargain well is as cunning as fast and loose. | To sell a bargaine well is as cunning as fast and loose: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.139 | than French crown. I will never buy and sell out of | then a French-Crowne. I will neuer buy and sell out of |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.319 | And we that sell by gross, the Lord doth know, | And we that sell by grosse, the Lord doth know, |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.ii.42 | Then you'll buy 'em to sell again. | Then you'l by 'em to sell againe. |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.2 | needs buy and sell men and women like beasts, we shall | needes buy and sell men and women like beasts, we shall |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.iii.33 | I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk | I will buy with you, sell with you, talke with you, walke |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.440 | That I should neither sell nor give nor lose it. | That I should neither sell, nor giue, nor lose it. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.179 | they sell bullocks. But did you think the Prince would | they sel Bullockes: but did you thinke the Prince wold |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.376 | I'll sell all my land. | Ile sell all my Land. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.i.52 | Here lives a caitiff wretch would sell it him.’ | Here liues a Caitiffe wretch would sell it him. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.i.54 | And this same needy man must sell it me. | And this same needie man must sell it me. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.i.82 | Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell. | Then these poore compounds that thou maiest not sell. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.i.83 | I sell thee poison. Thou hast sold me none. | I sell thee poyson, thou hast sold me none, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.173 | As those which sell would give. But you well know | As those which sell would giue: but you well know, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.i.7 | If I would sell my horse and buy twenty more | If I would sell my Horse, and buy twenty moe |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.360 | And think perchance they'll sell; if not, | And thinke perchance they'l sell: If not, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.i.79 | We'll not commend what we intend to sell. | Weele not commend, what we intend to sell. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.iv.39 | Did buy each other, must poorly sell ourselves | Did buy each other, must poorely sell our selues, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.138 | I'd have you buy and sell so, so give alms, | I'ld haue you buy, and sell so: so giue Almes, |