| 1H6 IV.i.43 | [Talbot to all, of an unworthy knight] He ... should ... / Be quite degraded, like a hedge-born swain |
| 1H6 V.iv.37 | [Pucelle to all] Not me begotten of a shepherd swain |
| 2H6 IV.i.50 | [Suffolk to Lieutenant] Obscure and lousy swain |
| 2H6 IV.i.65 | [Whitmore to Lieutenant, of Suffolk] Speak, captain, shall I stab the forlorn swain? |
| E3 I.ii.145 | [Countess to King Edward] Our house ... is like a country swain |
| LLL I.i.177 | [Longaville to all, of Armado] Costard the swain and he shall be our sport |
| LLL I.i.241 | [King reading Armado's letter to him, of Costard] There did I see that low-spirited swain |
| LLL III.i.47 | [Armado to Mote, of Costard] Fetch hither the swain |
| LLL III.i.5 | [Armado to Mote, of Costard] give enlargement to the swain |
| LLL IV.i.141 | [Costard alone, of Boyet] By my soul, a swain, a most simple clown! |
| LLL V.i.121 | [Holofernes to Nathaniel, of Costard] this swain ... shall pass Pompey the Great |
| LLL V.ii.531 | [King to all] the swain, [presents] Pompey the Great |
| Luc.1504 | [of a painting of Sinon] Onward to Troy with the blunt swains he goes |
| MND IV.i.64 | [Oberon to Puck] take this transformed scalp / From off the head of this Athenian swain |
| TS II.i.204 | [Katherina to Petruchio, of herself] Too light for such a swain as you to catch |
| TS IV.i.115 | [Petruchio to Grumio] You peasant swain |