| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.172 | That blinking Cupid gossips. Now shall he – | That blinking Cupid gossips. Now shall he: |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.406 | Go to a gossips' feast, and go with me. | Go to a Gossips feast, and go with mee, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.408 | With all my heart I'll gossip at this feast. | With all my heart, Ile Gossip at this feast. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.420 | Will you walk in to see their gossiping? | Will you walke in to see their gossipping? |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.i.92 | wife come in then and call me gossip Quickly? – coming | wife come in then, and cal me gossip Quickly? comming |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.v.12 | My noble gossips, you've been too prodigal; | My Noble Gossips, y'haue beene too Prodigall; |
| King John | KJ V.ii.59 | Full warm of blood, of mirth, of gossiping. | Full warm of blood, of mirth, of gossipping: |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.49 | Hadst thou been aught but gossamer, feathers, air, | Had'st thou beene ought / But Gozemore, Feathers, Ayre, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.i.6 | lie buried as they say, if my gossip Report be an honest | lye buried, as they say, if my gossips report be an honest |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.i.8 | I would she were as lying a gossip in that as | I would she were as lying a gossip in that, as |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.ii.8 | What ho, gossip Ford. What ho! | What hoa, gossip Ford: what hoa. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.47 | And sometime lurk I in a gossip's bowl | And sometime lurke I in a Gossips bole, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.125 | Full often hath she gossiped by my side, | Full often hath she gossipt by my side, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.179 | leave you now to your gossip-like humour; you break | leaue you now to your gossep-like humor, you breake |
| Pericles | Per IV.ii.81 | Marry, whip the gosling. I think I shall have something | Marie whip the Gosseling, I thinke I shall haue something |
| Richard III | R3 I.i.83 | Are mighty gossips in this monarchy. | Are mighty Gossips in our Monarchy. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.i.11 | Speak to my gossip Venus one fair word, | Speake to my goship Venus one faire word, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.vi.18 | A lover may bestride the gossamers | A Louer may bestride the Gossamours, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.171 | Good Prudence. Smatter with your gossips, go! | Good Prudence, smatter with your gossip, go. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.174 | Utter your gravity o'er a gossip's bowl, | Vtter your grauitie ore a Gossips bowles |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.180 | Toothed briars, sharp furzes, pricking goss, and thorns, | Tooth'd briars, sharpe firzes, pricking gosse, & thorns, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.149 | A long-tongued, babbling gossip? No, lords, no. | A long tongu'd babling Gossip? No Lords no: |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.262 | And make the babbling gossip of the air | And make the babling Gossip of the aire, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.268 | gossips; yet 'tis a maid, for she is her master's maid and | Gossips: yet 'tis a maid, for she is her Masters maid, and |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.41.1 | About some gossips for your highness. | About some Gossips for your Highnesse. |