| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.76 | living by the copulation of cattle; to be bawd to a bell-wether, | liuing, by the copulation of Cattle, to be bawd to a Belweather, |
| As You Like It | AYL III.iii.87 | or we must live in bawdry. Farewell, good Master | or we must liue in baudrey: / Farewel good Mr |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iii.130 | Breathing like sanctified and pious bawds, | Breathing like sanctified and pious bonds, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.498 | Prithee say on. He's for a jig or a tale of bawdry, or he | Prythee say on: He's for a Iigge, or a tale of Baudry, or hee |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.577 | With this slave's offal. Bloody, bawdy villain! | With this Slaues Offall, bloudy: a Bawdy villaine, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.112 | transform honesty from what it is to a bawd than the | transforme Honestie from what it is, to a Bawd, then the |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.8 | and clocks the tongues of bawds, and dials the signs of | and clockes the tongues of Bawdes, and dialls the signes of |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.iii.13 | Why, there is it. Come, sing me a bawdy song, | Why there is it: Come, sing me a bawdy Song, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.iii.16 | not above seven times a week. Went to a bawdy-house | not aboue seuen times a weeke, went to a Bawdy-house |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.iii.98 | bawdy-house, they pick pockets. | Bawdy-house, they picke Pockets. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.iii.156 | but tavern reckonings, memorandums of bawdy-houses, | but Tauerne Recknings, Memorandums of Bawdie-houses, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.141 | a poor whore's ruff in a bawdy-house? He a captain! | a poore Whores Ruffe in a Bawdy-house? Hee a Captaine? |
| Henry V | H5 II.i.33 | thought we keep a bawdy-house straight. | thought we keepe a Bawdy-house straight. |
| Henry V | H5 III.vi.61 | remember him now – a bawd, a cutpurse. | remember him now: a Bawd, a Cut-purse. |
| Henry V | H5 V.i.81 | Honour is cudgelled. Well, bawd I'll turn, | honour is Cudgeld. Well, Baud Ile turne, |
| Henry VIII | H8 prologue.14 | That come to hear a merry, bawdy play, | That come to heare a Merry, Bawdy Play, |
| King John | KJ II.i.582 | This bawd, this broker, this all-changing word, | This Bawd, this Broker, this all-changing-word, |
| King John | KJ III.i.59 | And made his majesty the bawd to theirs. | And made his Maiestie the bawd to theirs. |
| King John | KJ III.i.60 | France is a bawd to fortune and King John, | France is a Bawd to Fortune, and king Iohn, |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.18 | bawd in way of good service, and art nothing but the | Baud in way of good seruice, and art nothing but the |
| King Lear | KL III.ii.92 | And bawds and whores do churches build – | And Baudes, and whores, do Churches build, |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.ii.44 | Enter Mistress Overdone | Enter Bawde. |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.61 | He, sir? A tapster, sir, parcel-bawd; one that | He Sir: a Tapster Sir: parcell Baud: one that |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.73 | that this house, if it be not a bawd's house, it is pity | that this house, if it be not a Bauds house, it is pitty |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.209 | Great. Pompey, you are partly a bawd, Pompey, howsoever | great; Pompey, you are partly a bawd, Pompey; howsoeuer |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.214 | bawd? What do you think of the trade, Pompey? Is it a | bawd? what doe you thinke of the trade Pompey? is it a |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.224 | the knaves, you need not to fear the bawds. | the knaues, you need not to feare the bawds. |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.153 | Mercy to thee would prove itself a bawd, | Mercy to thee would proue it selfe a Bawd, |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.17 | Fie, sirrah, a bawd, a wicked bawd! | Fie, sirrah, a Bawd, a wicked bawd, |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.56 | Ever your fresh whore and your powdered bawd. An | Euer your fresh Whore, and your pouder'd Baud, an |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.62 | For being a bawd, for being a bawd. | For being a baud, for being a baud. |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.64 | due of a bawd, why, 'tis his right. Bawd is he doubtless, | due of a baud, why 'tis his right. Baud is he doubtlesse, |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.65 | and of antiquity too; bawd-born. Farewell, good | and of antiquity too: Baud borne. Farwell good |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.180.1 | Enter Escalus, Provost, and Officers with Mistress | Enter Escalus, Prouost, and Bawd. |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.187 | A bawd of eleven years' continuance, may it | A Bawd of eleuen yeares continuance, may it |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.13 | unpitied whipping, for you have been a notorious bawd. | vnpittied whipping; for you haue beene a notorious bawd. |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.14 | Sir, I have been an unlawful bawd time out of | Sir, I haue beene an vnlawfull bawd, time out of |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.24 | plead his estimation with you. He hath been a bawd. | plead his estimation with you: he hath beene a Bawd. |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.25 | A bawd, sir? Fie upon him, he will discredit | A Bawd Sir? fie vpon him, he will discredit |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.47 | is a more penitent trade than your bawd. He doth | is a more penitent Trade then your Bawd: he doth |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.51 | Come, on, bawd. I will instruct thee in my | Come on (Bawd) I will instruct thee in my |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iii.174 | bawdy talk offend you, we'll have very little of it. Nay, | baudy talke offend you, wee'l haue very litle of it: nay |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.19 | She says enough; yet she's a simple bawd | She saies enough: yet she's a simple Baud |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.77 | The bawdy wind, that kisses all it meets, | The baudy winde that kisses all it meetes, |
| Pericles | Per IV.ii.1 | Enter the three Bawds | Enter the three Bawdes. |
| Pericles | Per IV.v.7 | bawdy-houses. Shall's go hear the vestals sing? | bawdie houses, shall's goe heare the Vestalls sing? |
| Pericles | Per IV.vi.1 | Enter the three Bawds | Enter Bawdes 3. |
| Pericles | Per IV.vi.35 | That dignifies the renown of a bawd no | That dignities the renowne of a Bawde, no |
| Pericles | Per IV.vi.61 | Exeunt, Pandar, Bawd, and Boult | |
| Pericles | Per IV.vi.129 | Enter Pandar and Bawd | Enter Bawdes. |
| Pericles | Per IV.vi.149 | Exit Pandar and Bawd | |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.V.11 | She gives the cursed bawd. Here we her place, | She giues the cursed Bawd, here wee her place, |
| Richard II | R2 V.iii.66 | So shall my virtue be his vice's bawd | So shall my Vertue be his Vices bawd, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.109 | 'Tis no less, I tell ye, for the bawdy hand of | 'Tis no lesse I tell you: for the bawdy hand of |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.127 | A bawd, a bawd, a bawd! So ho! | A baud, a baud, a baud. So ho. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.ii.64 | usurers' men, bawds between gold and want! | Vsurers men, Bauds betweene Gold and want. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.ii.88 | die a bawd. | dye a Bawd. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.115 | Herself's a bawd. Let not the virgin's cheek | Her selfe's a Bawd. Let not the Virgins cheeke |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.135 | And to make whores, a bawd. Hold up, you sluts, | And to make Whores, a Bawd. Hold vp you Sluts |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.281 | By the same token you are a bawd. | By the same token, you are a Bawd. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.i.70 | For every false drop in her bawdy veins | For euery false drop in her baudy veines, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.x.37 | O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you | Oh traitours and bawdes; how earnestly are you |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.201 | It is a bawdy planet, that will strike | It is a bawdy Planet, that will strike |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.68.1 | A most intelligencing bawd! | A most intelligencing bawd. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.195 | the prettiest love-songs for maids; so without bawdry, | the prettiest Loue-songs for Maids, so without bawdrie |