| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.v.10 | flesh and cost me the dearest groans of a mother I | flesh and cost mee the deerest groanes of a mother, I |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.iv.37 | Choose your own company, and command what cost | Choose your owne company, and command what cost |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.76 | The cost of princes on unworthy shoulders? | The cost of Princes on vnworthy shoulders? |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.80 | That says his bravery is not on my cost, | That sayes his brauerie is not on my cost, |
| 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. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.i.1 | You know since Pentecost the sum is due, | You know since Pentecost the sum is due, |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.ii.77 | A riding-suit; no costlier than would fit | A Riding Suit: No costlier then would fit |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.vii.53.1 | What pain it cost, what danger! Gods! | What paine it cost, what danger: Gods! |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iii.70 | Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, | Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy; |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.258 | It would cost you a groaning to take off mine | It would cost you a groaning, to take off my |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.90 | see't. Did these bones cost no more the breeding but | see't. Did these bones cost no more the breeding, but |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.90 | Whose tongue shall ask me for one penny cost | Whose tongue shall aske me for one peny cost |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.171 | costermongers' times that true valour is turned bear-herd; | Costor-mongers, that true valor is turn'd Beare-heard. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.iii.44 | Then must we rate the cost of the erection, | Then must we rate the cost of the Erection, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.iii.60 | Gives o'er and leaves his part-created cost | Giues o're, and leaues his part-created Cost |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.i.11 | It may chance cost some of us our lives, for he will | It may chance cost some of vs our liues: he wil |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.i.13 | Under the canopies of costly state, | Vnder the Canopies of costly State, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.11 | Indeed, sir, to my cost. | Indeede Sir, to my cost. |
| Henry V | H5 IV.iii.25 | Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost; | Nor care I who doth feed vpon my cost: |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.256 | devant leur noces, il n'est pas la coutume de France. | deuant leur nopcese il net pas le costume de Fraunce. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.74 | One would have lingering wars with little cost; | One would haue lingring Warres, with little cost; |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iii.82 | Gloucester, we'll meet to thy cost, be sure; | Gloster, wee'le meet to thy cost, be sure: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.iv.43 | When thou shalt see I'll meet thee to thy cost. | When thou shalt see, Ile meet thee to thy cost. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.60 | cost and charges, without having any dowry. | Cost and Charges, without hauing any Dowry. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.132 | For costs and charges in transporting her! | For Costs and Charges in transporting her: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iii.129 | Have cost a mass of public treasury. | Haue cost a masse of publique Treasurie. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.106 | I took a costly jewel from my neck – | I tooke a costly Iewell from my necke, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.vi.3 | of the city's cost, the Pissing Conduit run nothing | of the Cities cost / The pissing Conduit run nothing |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.268 | Will cost my crown, and like an empty eagle | Will cost my Crowne, and like an emptie Eagle, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.ii.177 | These words will cost ten thousand lives this day. | These words will cost ten thousand liues this day. |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.89.1 | The cost that did conclude it. | The Cost that did conclude it. |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.165 | To this last costly treaty, th' interview | To this last costly Treaty: Th'enteruiew, |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.258 | Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood! | Woe to the hand that shed this costly Blood. |
| King Edward III | E3 I.ii.153 | His pride, perfumes, and parti-coloured cost, | His pride perfumes, and party colloured cost, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.62 | Near to the coast I have descried, my lord, | Neere to the cost I haue discribde my Lord, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.101 | Here in the middle coast, betwixt you both, | Heere in the middle cost betwixtyou both, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.ii.14 | And will be met, I warrant ye, to their cost, | And will be met I warrant ye to their cost, |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.241 | try whether your costard or my ballow be the harder. | try whither your Costard, or my Ballow be the harder; |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.171.1 | Cost him his eyes. | Cost him his eyes. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.177 | Costard the swain and he shall be our sport, | Costard the swaine and he, shall be our sport, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.179.1 | Enter Dull with a letter, | Enter a Constable with Costard with a Letter. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.179.2 | and Costard | |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.219 | Not a word of Costard yet. | Not a word of Costard yet. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.248 | Which, as I remember, hight Costard – | which as I remember, hight Costard, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.ii.113 | with the rational hind Costard. She deserves well. | with the rationall hinde Costard: she deserues well. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.ii.121.1 | Enter Dull, Costard, | Enter Clowne, Constable, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.ii.121 | Sir, the Duke's pleasure is that you keep Costard | Sir, the Dukes pleasure, is that you keepe Costard |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.ii.160 | Exeunt Mote and Costard | Exit. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.68.1 | Enter Mote with Costard | Enter Page and Clowne. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.68 | A wonder, master! Here's a Costard broken in a shin. | A wonder Master, here's a Costard broken in a shin. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.104 | By saying that a costard was broken in a shin. | By saying that a Costard was broken in a shin. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.109 | But tell me, how was there a costard broken in a | But tell me: How was there a Costard broken in a |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.114 | I, Costard, running out, that was safely within, | I Costard running out, that was safely within, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.118 | Sirrah Costard, I will enfranchise thee. | Sirra Costard, I will infranchise thee. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.128 | (giving Costard a letter) bear this significant to the | Beare this significant to the |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.132 | Like the sequel, I. Signor Costard, adieu. | Like the sequell I. / Signeur Costard adew. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.141 | My good knave Costard, exceedingly well met. | O my good knaue Costard, exceedingly well met. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.165 | He gives Costard a letter | |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.i.41.1 | Enter Costard | Enter Clowne. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.i.108.2 | Exeunt all except Boyet, Rosaline, Maria, and Costard | Exeunt. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.ii.81 | Enter Jaquenetta with a letter, and Costard | Enter Iaquenetta and the Clowne. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.ii.90 | this letter. It was given me by Costard, and sent me | this Letter, it was giuen mee by Costard, and sent mee |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.ii.142 | Good Costard, go with me. Sir, God save | Good Costard go with me: / Sir God saue |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.ii.144.1 | Exeunt Costard and | Exit. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.187.3 | and Costard | and Clowne. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.195 | Of Costard. | Of Costard. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.202.1 | (to Costard) | |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.211 | Exeunt Costard and Jaquenetta | |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.i.30 | Enter Armado, Mote, and Costard | |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.i.36 | (to Costard) | |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.484.1 | Enter Costard | Enter Clowne. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.543 | Enter Costard as Pompey | Enter Pompey. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.568 | Your servant, and Costard. | your seruant and Costard. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.663.1 | Berowne steps forth and whispers to Costard | Berowne steppes forth. |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.iii.10 | Where youth and cost a witless bravery keeps. | Where youth, and cost, witlesse brauery keepes. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ix.94 | To show how costly summer was at hand, | To show how costly Sommer was at hand, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.i.77 | cost me two thousand ducats in Frankfurt! The curse | cost me two thousand ducats in Franckford, the curse |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.iv.19 | How little is the cost I have bestowed | How little is the cost I haue bestowed |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.145 | shovel-boards, that cost me two shillings and twopence | Shouelboords, that cost me two shilling and two pence |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.i.14 | about his knave's costard when I have good opportunities | about his knaues costard, when I haue good oportunities |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.97 | With sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear. | With sighes of loue, that costs the fresh bloud deare. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.82 | have caught the Benedick, it will cost him a thousand | haue caught the Benedict, it will cost him a thousand |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.90 | your trouble? The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, | your trouble: the fashion of the world is to auoid cost, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.303 | working-days: your grace is too costly to wear every | working-daies, your Grace is too costly to weare euerie |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.343 | My lord, I am for you, though it cost me ten | My Lord, I am for you, though it cost mee ten |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.85 | His breeches cost him but a crown; | His Breeches cost him but a Crowne, |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.253 | (within) If thou attempt it, it will cost thee dear; | If thou attempt it, it will cost thee deere; |
| Pericles | Per III.ii.69 | This queen, worth all our mundane cost. | This Queene, worth all our mundaine cost: |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.259 | Will maintain it with some little cost. | I will maintaine it with some little cost. |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.156 | Take him on the costard with the hilts | Take him on the Costard, with the hiltes |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.325 | Long kept in Britain at our mother's cost? | Long kept in Britaine at our Mothers cost, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.v.37 | Come Pentecost as quickly as it will, | Come Pentycost as quickely as it will, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.iv.6.1 | Spare not for cost. | Spare not for cost. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.1.57 | Some one be ready with a costly suit, | Some one be readie with a costly suite, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.345 | Costly apparel, tents, and canopies, | Costly apparell, tents, and Canopies, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.127 | Hath cost me a hundred crowns since supper-time. | Hath cost me fiue hundred crownes since supper time. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.128 | And I have bred her at my dearest cost | And I haue bred her at my deerest cost |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.215 | cost a man a doit. | cast a man a Doit. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.52 | She is not worth what she doth cost the holding. | she is not worth / What she doth cost the holding. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.i.61 | With such a costly loss of wealth and friends. | With such a costly losse of wealth and friends: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.59 | That give accosting welcome ere it comes, | That giue a coasting welcome ete it comes; |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.223 | The fall of every Phrygian stone will cost | The fall of euery Phrygian stone will cost |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.viii.2 | Thy goodly armour thus hath cost thy life. | Thy goodly armour thus hath cost thy life. |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.iii.46 | Accost, Sir Andrew, accost. | Accost Sir Andrew, accost. |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.iii.49 | Good Mistress Accost, I desire better | Good Mistris accost, I desire better |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.iii.52 | Good Mistress Mary Accost – | Good mistris Mary, accost. |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.iii.53 | You mistake, knight. ‘ Accost ’ is front | You mistake knight: Accost, is front |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.iii.56 | her in this company. Is that the meaning of ‘ accost ’? | her in this company. Is that the meaning of Accost? |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.ii.20 | should then have accosted her, and with some excellent | should then haue accosted her, and with some excellent |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.316 | Here at my house, and at my proper cost. | Heere at my house, and at my proper cost. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.ii.26.2 | a page's costume | |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.iv.38 | Enter Proteus, and Julia in a page's costume | |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.iv.155 | About my stature; for, at Pentecost, | About my stature: for at Pentecost, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.ii.1.2 | costume | |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.iv.19.1 | Enter Proteus, Silvia, and Julia in a page's costume | |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.132 | Will longer last and be more costly than | Will long last, and be more costly then, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.v.127 | And his fat spouse, that welcomes to their cost | And his fat Spowse, that welcomes to their cost |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iii.97 | And costliness of spirit looked through him; it could | And costlines of spirit look't through him, it could |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iv.110 | That we should things desire which do cost us | That we should things desire, which doe cost us |