| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.i.4 | Caesar to Antony. Let the old ruffian know | Casar to Anthony: let the old Russian know, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.142 | By ruffian lust should be contaminate? | By Ruffian Lust should be contaminate? |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.442 | that Father Ruffian, that Vanity in years? Wherein is he | that Father Ruffian, that Vanitie in yeeres? wherein is he |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.i.22 | Who take the ruffian billows by the top, | Who take the Ruffian Billowes by the top, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.125 | Have you a ruffian that will swear, drink, dance, | Haue you a Ruffian that will sweare? drinke? dance? |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.186 | Swear like a ruffian, and demean himself | Sweare like a Ruffian, and demeane himselfe |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.i.164 | What, wilt thou on thy deathbed play the ruffian, | What wilt thou on thy death-bed play the Ruffian? |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.ii.49 | To die in ruffian battle? Even at this sight | To die in Ruffian battell? Euen at this sight, |
| King John | KJ III.i.200 | Well, ruffian, I must pocket up these wrongs | Well ruffian, I must pocket vp these wrongs, |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.60 | This ancient ruffian, sir, whose life I have | This ancient Ruffian Sir, whose life I haue |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.89 | Talk with a ruffian at her chamber-window; | Talke with a ruffian at her chamber window, |
| Othello | Oth I.i.111 | service, and you think we are ruffians, you'll have your | seruice, and you thinke we are Ruffians, you'le haue your |
| Othello | Oth II.i.7 | If it hath ruffianed so upon the sea, | If it hath ruffiand so vpon the Sea, |
| Richard II | R2 II.iv.12 | Rich men look sad, and ruffians dance and leap – | Rich men looke sad, and Ruffians dance and leape, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.281 | A madcap ruffian and a swearing Jack, | A mad-cap ruffian, and a swearing Iacke, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.161 | Smells from the general weal. Make curled-pate ruffians bald, | Smels from the generall weale. Make curld' pate Ruffians bald |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.38 | But let the ruffian Boreas once enrage | But let the Ruffian Boreas once enrage |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.i.55 | This ruffian hath botched up, that thou thereby | This Ruffian hath botch'd vp, that thou thereby |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.iv.60 | Ruffian, let go that rude uncivil touch; | Ruffian: let goe that rude vnciuill touch, |