| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.250 | anon. 'Tis a knavish piece of work. But what of that? | anon: 'tis a knauish peece of worke: But what o'that? |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.ii.23 | I am glad of it. A knavish speech sleeps in a | I am glad of it: a knauish speech sleepes in a |
| Henry V | H5 IV.ii.49 | And their executors, the knavish crows, | And their executors, the knauish Crowes, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.97 | Their herald is a pretty knavish page | Their Herald is a pretty knauish Page: |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.33 | Or else you are that shrewd and knavish sprite | Or else you are that shrew'd and knauish spirit |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.440 | Cupid is a knavish lad | Cupid is a knauish lad, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iii.96 | knavish professions, he settled only in rogue. Some call | knauish professions) he setled onely in Rogue: some call |