| Cym I.i.50 | [First Gentleman to Second Gentleman, of Posthumus' role with the courtiers] to the graver / A child that guided dotards |
| MA V.i.59 | [Leonato to Claudio] I speak not like a dotard nor a fool |
| TS V.i.96 | [Baptista to Officer, of Vincentio] Away with the dotard |
| WT II.iii.74 | [Leontes to Antigonus] Thou dotard |