| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.241 | drinks off candles' ends for flap-dragons, and rides the | drinkes off Candles ends for Flap-dragons, and rides the |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.i.42 | than a flap-dragon. | then a flapdragon. |
| Pericles | Per II.i.82 | and moreo'er puddings and flapjacks, and thou | and more; or Puddinges and Flap-iackes, and thou |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.i.143 | A whoreson, beetle-headed, flap-eared knave! | A horson beetle-headed flap-ear'd knaue: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.i.29 | flap for a sore eye, thou tassel of a prodigal's purse, | flap for a sore eye, thou tassell of a Prodigals purse |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.iii.95 | an end of the ship: to see how the sea flap-dragoned it; | an end of the Ship, to see how the Sea flap-dragon'd it: |