| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.129 | Whiles, like a doe, I go to find my fawn | Whiles (like a Doe) I go to finde my Fawne, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.vi.38 | Even like a fawning greyhound in the leash, | Euen like a fawning Grey-hound in the Leash, |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.ii.67 | How you can frown, than spend a fawn upon 'em | How you can frowne, then spend a fawne vpon 'em, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.72 | Where thrift may follow fawning. Dost thou hear? | Where thrift may follow faining? Dost thou heare, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.248 | This fawning greyhound then did proffer me! | This fawning Grey-hound then did proffer me, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.iv.35 | And take foul scorn to fawn on him by sending. | And take foule scorne to fawne on him by sending. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.i.75 | My love, forbear to fawn upon their frowns; | My Loue, forbeare to fawne vpon their frownes: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.viii.49 | And when the lion fawns upon the lamb, | And when the Lyon fawnes vpon the Lambe, |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.75 | That I do fawn on men and hug them hard, | That I do fawne on men, and hugge them hard, |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.43 | Low-crooked curtsies and base spaniel fawning. | Low-crooked-curtsies, and base Spaniell fawning: |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.45 | If thou dost bend and pray and fawn for him, | If thou doest bend, and pray, and fawne for him, |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.i.41 | You showed your teeth like apes, and fawned like hounds, | You shew'd your teethes like Apes, / And fawn'd like Hounds, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.62 | How I would make him fawn, and beg, and seek, | How I would make him fawne, and begge, and seeke, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.iii.38 | How like a fawning publican he looks. | How like a fawning publican he lookes. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.204 | The more you beat me I will fawn on you. | The more you beat me, I will fawne on you. |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.170 | I am too old to fawn upon a nurse, | I am too old to fawne vpon a Nurse, |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.130 | Dogs easily won to fawn on any man! | Dogges, easily woon to fawne on any man, |
| Richard II | R2 V.i.33 | And fawn on rage with base humility, | And fawne on Rage with base Humilitie, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.289 | Look when he fawns he bites; and when he bites | Looke when he fawnes, he bites; and when he bites, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.iv.52 | Then they could smile and fawn upon his debts, | Then they could smile, and fawne vpon his debts, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.158 | Bestow thy fawning smiles on equal mates; | Bestow thy fawning smiles on equall mates, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.ii.15 | The more it grows and fawneth on her still. | The more it growes, and fawneth on her still; |