| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.ii.17 | 'Tis double wrong to truant with your bed | 'Tis double wrong to truant with your bed, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.169 | A truant disposition, good my lord. | A truant disposition, good my Lord. |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.173 | Against yourself. I know you are no truant. | Against your selfe. I know you are no Truant: |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.200 | But I will never be a truant, love, | But I will neuer be a Truant, Loue, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.i.94 | I have a truant been to chivalry, | I haue a Truant beene to Chiualry, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.ii.62 | And chid his truant youth with such a grace | And chid his Trewant youth with such a Grace, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iv.7 | Faith, I have been a truant in the law | Faith I haue beene a Truant in the Law, |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.i.43 | I am not such a truant since my coming | I am not such a Truant since my comming, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.74 | That aged ears play truant at his tales | That aged eares play treuant at his tales, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.i.23 | Brook. Since I plucked geese, played truant and whipped | Broome:) since I pluckt Geese, plaide Trewant, and whipt |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.ii.17 | Hang him, truant! There's no true drop of | Hang him truant, there's no true drop of |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.270 | With truant vows to her own lips he loves, | (With truant vowes to her owne lips he loues) |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iv.62 | And though myself have been an idle truant, | And though my selfe haue beene an idle Trewant, |