| AC I.iv.64 | [Caesar as if to Antony] Thy palate then did deign / The roughest berry on the rudest hedge |
| E3 I.ii.146 | [Countess to King Edward] Our house ... is like a country swain, / Whose habit rude and manners blunt and plain / Presageth nought |
| KJ II.i.262 | [King Philip to Hubert, of the city walls] their rude circumference |
| KJ IV.ii.257 | [Hubert to King John, of his appearance] Which, howsoever rude exteriorly, / Is yet the cover of a fairer mind |
| KJ V.vii.27 | [Salisbury to Prince Henry, of King John] you are born / To set a form upon that indigest / Which he hath left so shapeless and so rude |
| R2 III.iii.32 | [Bolingbroke to Northumberland] Go to the rude ribs of that ancient castle |
| R3 IV.i.101 | [Queen Elizabeth as if to the Tower] Rude ragged nurse |
| Sonn.11.10 | [] Let those whom Nature hath not made for score, / Harsh, featureless, and rude, barrenly perish |
| Sonn.113.9 | [of the mind] if it see the rud'st or gentlest sight ... it shapes them to your feature |