| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.iii.38 | When it is all to nought, and his quails ever | When it is all to naught: and his Quailes euer |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.i.92 | Blows fair from land. They stay for naught at all | Blowes faire from land: they stay for nought at all, |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.269.1 | Which he so sets at nought. | Which he so sets at naught. |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iii.93 | Hear nought from Rome in private. (He sits) Your request? | Heare nought from Rome in priuate. Your request? |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.vii.21 | I have stolen nought, nor would not, though I had found | I haue stolne nought, nor would not, though I had found |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.9 | Such precious deeds in one that promised nought | Such precious deeds, in one that promist nought |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.v.38 | For Doll is in. Pistol speaks naught but truth. | for Dol is in. Pistol, speakes nought but troth. |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.252 | And bids you be advised there's naught in France | And bids you be aduis'd: There's nought in France, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.366 | Myself no joy in naught but that thou livest. | My selfe no ioy in nought, but that thou liu'st. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.i.7 | This hand was made to handle naught but gold. | This hand was made to handle nought but Gold. |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.43 | To the disposing of it nought rebelled. | To the disposing of it nought rebell'd, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.135 | A better wife, let him in nought be trusted | A better Wife, let him in naught be trusted, |
| King Edward III | E3 I.i.169 | In great affairs 'tis naught to use delay. | In great affaires tis nought to vse delay. |
| King Edward III | E3 I.ii.147 | Presageth nought, yet inly beautified | Presageth nought, yet inly beautified, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.204 | Now wants there nought but knighthood, which deferred | Now wants there nought but knighthood, which deferd |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.ii.72 | I will accept of naught but fire and sword, | Will accept of nought but fire and sword, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.vi.32 | The spirit of fear, that feareth naught but death, | The spirit of feare that feareth nought but death, |
| King John | KJ III.iv.111 | That it yields naught but shame and bitterness. | That it yeelds nought but shame and bitternesse. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.92 | Too much to know is to know naught but fame, | Too much to know, is to know nought but fame: |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.i.69 | Hear his speech, but say thou naught. | Heare his speech, but say thou nought. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.197 | When naught would be accepted but the ring, | When nought would be accepted but the Ring, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.462 | Naught shall go ill. | nought shall goe ill. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.ii.14 | us – a thing of naught. | vs) a thing of nought. |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.185 | With nought but truth. I have wasted myself | With naught but truth: I haue wasted my selfe |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.292 | For naught did I in hate, but all in honour. | For nought I did in hate, but all in Honour. |
| Pericles | Per I.iv.43 | Thought naught too curious are ready now | Thought nought too curious, are readie now |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.53 | As to be hushed, and naught at all to say. | As to be husht, and nought at all to say. |
| Richard III | R3 I.i.97 | With this, my lord, myself have naught to do. | With this (my Lord) my selfe haue nought to doo. |
| Richard III | R3 III.vi.13 | Bad is the world, and all will come to naught | Bad is the World, and all will come to nought, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iii.13 | For naught so vile that on the earth doth live | For nought so vile, that on the earth doth liue, |
| The Tempest | Tem III.ii.66 | He shall drink naught but brine, for I'll not show him | He shall drinke nought but brine, for Ile not shew him |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.vi.110 | He's but a mad lord, and naught but humours | He's but a mad Lord, & nought but humors |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.377 | I am sick of this false world, and will love naught | I am sicke of this false world, and will loue nought |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.149 | Remaineth naught but to inter our brethren, | Remaineth nought but to interre our Brethren, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iv.7 | Buzz in the people's ears, there naught hath past | Buz in the peoples eares) there nought hath past, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.i.85 | Or else I will discover naught to thee. | Ore else I will discouer nought to thee. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.288 | That she beloved knows naught that knows not this: | That she belou'd, knowes nought, that knowes not this; |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.19 | And call them shame, which are, indeed, naught else | And thinke them shame, which are (indeed) nought else |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.249 | He hears naught privately that comes from Troy. | He heares nought priuatly / That comes from Troy. |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.i.11 | Receiveth as the sea, naught enters there, | Receiueth as the Sea. Nought enters there, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.i.68 | War with good counsel, set the world at naught; | Warre with good counsaile; set the world at nought; |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.iv.64 | Thou hast beguiled my hopes; naught but mine eye | Thou hast beguil'd my hopes; nought but mine eye |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.v.9 | We convent naught else but woes, | We convent nought else but woes. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.iii.52.1 | Get off your trinkets; you shall want naught. | Get off your Trinkets, you shall want nought; |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iv.73 | His lord, that kept it bravely. When naught served, | His Lord, that kept it bravely: when nought serv'd, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iv.111 | The loss of our desire! That naught could buy | The losse of our desire; That nought could buy |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.177 | That lacked sight only, naught for approbation | That lack'd sight onely, nought for approbation |