| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.i.77 | The sailors sought for safety by our boat, | The Sailors sought for safety by our boate, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.114 | The counsellor heart, the arm our soldier, | The Counsailor Heart, the Arme our Souldier, |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.ii.58 | Love's counsellor should fill the bores of hearing, | (Loues Counsailor should fill the bores of hearing, |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.56.1 | With winds that sailors rail at. | With windes, that Saylors raile at. |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vi.7 | Enter Sailors | Enter Saylor. |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.39 | Sailors, my lord, they say. I saw them not. | Saylors my Lord they say, I saw them not: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iv.63 | When rage and hot blood are his counsellors, | When Rage and hot-Blood are his Counsailors, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.121 | Down, royal state! All you sage counsellors, hence! | Downe Royall State: All you sage Counsailors, hence: |
| Henry V | H5 II.iii.50 | Therefore, Caveto be thy counsellor. | therefore Caueto bee thy Counsailor. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.186 | I'll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall; | Ile drowne more Saylers then the Mermaid shall, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.iv.5 | And half our sailors swallowed in the flood? | And halfe our Saylors swallow'd in the flood? |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iii.4 | A sailor's wife had chestnuts in her lap, | A Saylors Wife had Chestnuts in her Lappe, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.iii.22 | sailors but men; there be land rats and water rats, water | Saylers but men, there be land rats, and water rats, water |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.i.94 | I spoke with some of the sailors that escaped the | I spoke with some of the Saylers that escaped the |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.13 | Enter Sailor | Enter Saylor. |
| Othello | Oth II.i.161 | liberal counsellor? | liberall Counsailor? |
| Pericles | Per III.i.38 | Enter two Sailors | Enter two Saylers. |
| Pericles | Per IV.i.54 | But cried ‘ Good seaman!’ to the sailors, galling | but cryed good sea-men to the Saylers, galling |
| Pericles | Per V.i.1.1 | Enter Helicanus. To him, two Sailors, one of Tyre | Enter Helicanus, to him 2. Saylers. |
| Pericles | Per V.i.1.3 | (to Sailor of Mytilene) | |
| Richard III | R3 III.iv.99 | Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast, | Liues like a drunken Sayler on a Mast, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.270 | And here was left by th' sailors. Thou, my slave, | And here was left by th' Saylors; thou my slaue, |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.4 | Is common. Every day, some sailor's wife, | Is common, euery day, some Saylors wife, |
| The Tempest | Tem II.ii.50 | Would cry to a sailor, ‘ Go hang!’ | Would cry to a Sailor goe hang: |
| The Tempest | Tem II.ii.119 | escaped upon a butt of sack, which the sailors heaved | escap'd vpon a But of Sacke, which the Saylors heaued |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.i.38 | as a sailor breaks a biscuit. | as a Sailor breakes a bisket. |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.ii.1 | Enter Viola, a Captain, and sailors | Enter Viola, a Captaine, and Saylors. |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.ii.5 | Perchance he is not drowned. What think you, sailors? | Perchance he is not drown'd: What thinke you saylors? |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.ii.16 | Noah was a sailor. | Noah was a Saylor. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.55 | Your most obedient counsellor; yet that dares | Your most obedient Counsailor: yet that dares |