| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL II.iv.86 | That young swain that you saw here but erewhile, | That yong Swaine that you saw heere but erewhile, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.43 | Be quite degraded, like a hedge-born swain | Be quite degraded, like a Hedge-borne Swaine, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iv.37 | Not me begotten of a shepherd swain, | Not me, begotten of a Shepheard Swaine, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.i.50 | Obscure and lousy swain, King Henry's blood, | Obscure and lowsie Swaine, King Henries blood. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.i.65 | Speak, captain, shall I stab the forlorn swain? | Speak Captaine, shall I stab the forlorn Swain. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.v.22 | To be no better than a homely swain; | To be no better then a homely Swaine, |
| King Edward III | E3 I.ii.145 | Our house, my liege, is like a country swain, | Our house my liege is like a Country swaine, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.108 | To music every summer-leaping swain | To musicke euery sommer leaping swaine, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.177 | Costard the swain and he shall be our sport, | Costard the swaine and he, shall be our sport, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.241 | There did I see that low-spirited swain, that base minnow | There did I see that low spirited Swaine, that base Minow |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.262 | which I apprehended with the aforesaid swain, I keep her | which I apprehended with the aforesaid Swaine, I keeper her |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.5 | give enlargement to the swain, bring him festinately | giue enlargement to the swaine, bring him festinatly |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.47 | Fetch hither the swain. He must carry me a | Fetch hither the Swaine, he must carrie mee a |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.63.1 | I shoot thee at the swain. | I shoote thee at the Swaine. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.i.141 | By my soul, a swain, a most simple clown! | By my soule a Swaine, a most simple Clowne. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.i.121 | Judas Maccabaeus; this swain, because of his great | Iudas Machabeus; this Swaine (because of his great |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.531 | the paper) He presents Hector of Troy; the swain, | He presents Hector of Troy, the Swaine |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.64 | From off the head of this Athenian swain, | From off the head of this Athenian swaine; |
| Pericles | Per IV.i.64 | From stem to stern. The boatswain whistles, and | from sterne to sterne, the Boatswaine whistles, and |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.204 | Too light for such a swain as you to catch, | Too light for such a swaine as you to catch, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.i.115 | You peasant swain, you whoreson malthorse drudge! | You pezant, swain, you horson malt-horse drudg |
| The Tempest | Tem I.i.1.2 | Enter a Shipmaster and a Boatswain | Enter a Ship-master, and a Boteswaine. |
| The Tempest | Tem I.i.1 | Boatswain! | BOte-swaine. |
| The Tempest | Tem I.i.9 | Good Boatswain, have care. Where's the Master? | Good Boteswaine haue care: where's the Master? |
| The Tempest | Tem I.i.12 | Where is the Master, Boatswain? | Where is the Master, Boson? |
| The Tempest | Tem I.i.34.1 | Enter Boatswain | Enter Boteswaine. |
| The Tempest | Tem I.i.58.4 | Exit Boatswain | |
| The Tempest | Tem II.ii.45 | The master, the swabber, the boatswain, and I, | The Master, the Swabber, the Boate-swaine & I; |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.99 | Under the hatches. The Master and the Boatswain | Vnder the Hatches: the Master and the Boat-swaine |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.216.1 | Enter Ariel, with the Master and Boatswain amazedly | Enter Ariell, with the Master and Boatswaine amazedly |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.171 | True swains in love shall in the world to come | True swaines in loue, shall in the world to come |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.ii.39 | That all our swains commend her? | That all our Swaines commend her? |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.iv.12 | Thou gentle nymph, cherish thy forlorn swain. | Thou gentle Nimph, cherish thy for-lorne swaine. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.9 | With a swain's wearing, and me, poor lowly maid, | With a Swaines wearing: and me (poore lowly Maide) |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.30 | Golden Apollo, a poor, humble swain, | Golden Apollo, a poore humble Swaine, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.168 | Pray, good shepherd, what fair swain is this | Pray good Shepheard, what faire Swaine is this, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.363 | How prettily the young swain seems to wash | How prettily th' yong Swaine seemes to wash |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.388.2 | Soft, swain, awhile, beseech you. | Soft Swaine a-while, beseech you, |