| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.162 | Into the staggers and the careless lapse | Into the staggers, and the carelesse lapse |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.vi.91 | and clap upon you two or three probable lies. | and clap vpon you two or three probable lies: |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.i.37 | Can from the lap of Egypt's widow pluck | Can from the lap of Egypts Widdow, plucke |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.x.19 | Claps on his sea wing and, like a doting mallard, | Claps on his Sea-wing, and (like a doting Mallard) |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.ii.17 | And all of you clapped up together in | And all of you clapt vp together, in |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.i.42 | love, it may be said of him that Cupid hath clapped him | loue, it may be said of him that Cupid hath clapt him |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iii.10 | Shall we clap into't roundly, without hawking, | Shal we clap into't roundly, without hauking, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.ii.27 | Far from her nest the lapwing cries away. |
Farre from her nest the Lapwing cries away; |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.ii.37 | A backfriend, a shoulder-clapper, one that countermands | A back friend, a shoulder-clapper, one that countermãds |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iii.11 | And Lapland sorcerers inhabit here. | And lapland Sorcerers inhabite here. |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iv.53 | Clapped to their gates. He is himself alone, | Clapt to their Gates, he is himselfe alone, |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.ii.19 | Would without lapsing suffer. Nay, sometimes, | Would without lapsing suffer: Nay, sometimes, |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.vi.12 | When rich ones scarce tell true. To lapse in fulness | When Rich-ones scarse tell true. To lapse in Fulnesse |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.361 | Your younger princely son, he, sir, was lapped | Your yonger Princely Son, he Sir, was lapt |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.340 | clapped for't. These are now the fashion, and so | clap't for't: these are now the fashion, and so |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.121 | Lady, shall I lie in your lap? | Ladie, shall I lye in your Lap? |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.123 | I mean, my head upon your lap? | I meane, my Head vpon your Lap? |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.108 | That, lapsed in time and passion, lets go by | That laps't in Time and Passion, lets go by |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.182 | This lapwing runs away with the shell on his | This Lapwing runs away with the shell on his |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.22 | of sugar, clapped even now into my hand by an | of Sugar, clapt euen now into my hand by an |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.270 | money! Hostess, clap to the doors! Watch tonight, pray | Mony. Hostesse, clap to the doores: watch to night, pray |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.208 | And rest your gentle head upon her lap, | On the wanton Rushes lay you downe, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.209 | And she will sing the song that pleaseth you, | And rest your gentle Head vpon her Lappe, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.222 | Come, quick, quick, that I may lay my head in thy lap. | Come, quicke, quicke, that I may lay my Head in thy / Lappe. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.190 | With well-appointed powers. He is a man | With well appointed Powres: he is a man |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.241 | drinks off candles' ends for flap-dragons, and rides the | drinkes off Candles ends for Flap-dragons, and rides the |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.45 | have clapped i'th' clout at twelve score, and carried you | haue clapt in the Clowt at Twelue-score, and carryed you |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.25 | What well-appointed leader fronts us here? | What well-appointed Leader fronts vs here? |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.iii.106 | Then, Pistol, lay thy head in Furies' lap. | Then Pistoll lay thy head in Furies lappe. |
| Henry V | H5 III.chorus.4 | The well-appointed King at Hampton pier | The well-appointed King at Douer Peer, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.iii.107 | Killing in relapse of mortality. | Killing in relapse of Mortalitie. |
| Henry V | H5 V.chorus.11 | Whose shouts and claps outvoice the deep-mouthed sea, | Whose shouts & claps out-voyce the deep-mouth'd Sea, |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.129 | answer, i'faith, do; and so clap hands, and a bargain. | answer, yfaith doe, and so clap hands, and a bargaine: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iv.22 | And on my side it is so well-apparelled, | And on my side it is so well apparrell'd, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.ii.21 | If thou retire, the Dauphin, well-appointed, | If thou retire, the Dolphin well appointed, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iii.26 | And let her head fall into England's lap. | And let her head fall into Englands lappe. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.158 | Clapping their hands and crying with loud voice | Clapping their hands, and crying with loud voyce, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iv.49 | Away with them, let them be clapped up close, | Away with them, let them be clapt vp close, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.390 | But like a pleasant slumber in thy lap? | But like a pleasant slumber in thy lap? |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.i.154 | Hath clapped his tail between his legs and cried; | Hath clapt his taile, betweene his legges and cride, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.148 | I'll make my heaven in a lady's lap, | Ile make my Heauen in a Ladies Lappe, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.v.32 | Untutored lad, thou art too malapert. | Vntutor'd Lad, thou art too malapert. |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.iii.18.1 | That's clapped upon the court gate. | That's clapt vpon the Court Gate. |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.iv.9.1 | Clapped wings to me. | Clapt wings to me. |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iv.79 | Clap round fines for neglect. You're lazy knaves, | Clap round Fines for neglect: y'are lazy knaues, |
| Henry VIII | H8 epilogue.14 | If they hold when their ladies bid 'em clap. | If they hold, when their Ladies bid 'em clap. |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.242 | rabblement hooted, and clapped their chopped hands, | rabblement howted, and clapp'd their chopt hands, |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.256 | Caesar fell down. If the tag-rag people did not clap him | Casar fell downe. If the tag-ragge people did not clap him, |
| King John | KJ II.i.583 | Clapped on the outward eye of fickle France, | Clap'd on the outward eye of fickle France, |
| King John | KJ III.i.235 | To clap this royal bargain up of peace, | To clap this royall bargaine vp of peace, |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.291 | What, fifty of my followers at a clap! | What fiftie of my Followers at a clap? |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.i.42 | than a flap-dragon. | then a flapdragon. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.107 | With that all laughed and clapped him on the shoulder, | With that all laugh'd, and clap'd him on the shoulder, |
| Macbeth | Mac I.ii.56 | Till that Bellona's bridegroom, lapped in proof, | Till that Bellona's Bridegroome, lapt in proofe, |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iii.4 | A sailor's wife had chestnuts in her lap, | A Saylors Wife had Chestnuts in her Lappe, |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.iv.32 | With maids to seem the lapwing and to jest, | With Maids to seeme the Lapwing, and to iest |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iii.39 | Truly, sir, I would desire you to clap into | Truly Sir, I would desire you to clap into |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.132 | Clap on more sails; pursue; up with your fights; | Clap on more sailes, pursue: vp with your sights: |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.iii.25 | my Francisco? Ha, bully? What says my Aesculapius? | my Francisco? ha Bully? what saies my Esculapius? |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.iii.59 | He will clapper-claw thee tightly, bully. | He will Clapper-claw thee tightly (Bully.) |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.iii.60 | Clapper-de-claw? Vat is dat? | Clapper-de-claw? vat is dat? |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.iii.62 | By gar, me do look he shall clapper-de-claw me, | By-gar, me doe looke hee shall clapper-de-claw me, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.i.29 | What is lapis, William? | What is (Lapis) William? |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.i.33 | No, it is lapis. I pray you remember in your prain. | No; it is Lapis: I pray you remember in your praine. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.i.34 | Lapis. | Lapis. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.50 | And on her withered dewlap pour the ale. | And on her withered dewlop poure the Ale. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.108 | Far in the fresh lap of the crimson rose, | Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson Rose, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.121 | Crook-kneed, and dewlapped like Thessalian bulls; | Crooke kneed, and dew-lapt, like Thessalian Buls, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.238 | at me; and he that hits me, let him be clapped on the | at me, and he that hit's me, let him be clapt on the |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.i.24 | For look where Beatrice, like a lapwing, runs | For looke where Beatrice like a Lapwing runs |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.ii.12 | bell and his tongue is the clapper, for what his heart | bell, and his tongue is the clapper, for what his heart |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iv.39 | Clap's into ‘ Light o' love ’; that goes without a | Claps into Light a loue, (that goes without a |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.ii.92 | I will live in thy heart, die in thy lap and be | I will liue in thy heart, die in thy lap, and be |
| Othello | Oth IV.iii.87 | And pour our treasures into foreign laps; | And powre our Treasures into forraigne laps; |
| Pericles | Per II.i.82 | and moreo'er puddings and flapjacks, and thou | and more; or Puddinges and Flap-iackes, and thou |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.III.34 | Brought hither to Pentapolis, | Brought hither to Penlapolis, |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.III.36 | And every one with claps can sound, | And euery one with claps can sound, |
| Pericles | Per III.ii.109 | For her relapse is mortal. Come, come; | for her relapse / Is mortall: come, come; |
| Pericles | Per III.ii.110 | And Aesculapius guide us. | and Escelapius guide vs. |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.114 | Strive to speak big and clap their female joints | Striue to speake bigge, and clap their female ioints |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.47 | The fresh green lap of fair King Richard's land | The fresh grcene Lap of faire King Richards Land, |
| Richard II | R2 V.ii.47 | That strew the green lap of the new-come spring? | That strew the greene lap of the new-come Spring? |
| Richard II | R2 V.v.86 | This hand hath made him proud with clapping him. | This hand hath made him proud with clapping him. |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.254 | Peace, master Marquess, you are malapert. | Peace Master Marquesse, you are malapert, |
| Richard III | R3 II.i.117 | Frozen almost to death, how he did lap me | Frozen (almost) to death, how he did lap me |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.50 | To worry lambs and lap their gentle blood, | To worry Lambes, and lap their gentle blood: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.214 | Nor ope her lap to saint-seducing gold. | Nor open her lap to Sainct-seducing Gold: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.ii.27 | When well-apparelled April on the heel | When well apparrel'd Aprill on the heele |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.i.6 | he enters the confines of a tavern, claps me his sword | he enters the confines of a Tauerne, claps me his Sword |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.318 | Was ever match clapped up so suddenly? | Was euer match clapt vp so sodainly? |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.ii.89 | Not so well-apparelled as I wish you were. | Not so well apparell'd as I wish you were. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.i.143 | A whoreson, beetle-headed, flap-eared knave! | A horson beetle-headed flap-ear'd knaue: |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.202 | O'th' dreadful thunderclaps, more momentary | O'th dreadfull Thunder-claps more momentarie |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.293 | They'll take suggestion as a cat laps milk. | They'l take suggestion, as a Cat laps milke, |
| The Tempest | Tem III.iii.46 | Dewlapped like bulls, whose throats had hanging at 'em | Dew-lapt, like Buls, whose throats had hanging at 'em |
| The Tempest | Tem III.iii.54.2 | claps his wings upon the table, and, with a quaint | claps his wings vpon the Table, and with a quient |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.231 | And – how we know not – all clapped under hatches, | And (how we know not) all clapt vnder hatches, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.vi.85 | Uncover, dogs, and lap. | Vncouer Dogges, and lap. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.388 | That lies on Dian's lap! Thou visible god, | That lyes on Dians lap. / Thou visible God, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iii.65 | Good boy, in Virgo's lap! Give it Pallas! | Good Boy in Virgoes lap, giue it Pallas. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.88 | As you must needs, for you all clapped your hands | (As you must needs) for you all clapt your hands, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.139 | They clap the lubber Ajax on the shoulder, | They clap the lubber Aiax on the shoulder, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.i.29 | flap for a sore eye, thou tassel of a prodigal's purse, | flap for a sore eye, thou tassell of a Prodigals purse |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.iv.1 | Now they are clapper-clawing one another; | Now they are clapper-clawing one another, |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iii.37 | For which, if I be lapsed in this place, | For which if I be lapsed in this place |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.i.43 | or two of this malapert blood from you. | or two of this malapert blood from you. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.327.1 | I'll clap more irons on you. | Ile clap more yrons on you. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.ii.32 | Clap her aboard tomorrow night and stow her, | Clap her aboard to morrow night, and stoa her, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.83 | Methought I heard a dreadful clap of thunder | Me thought I heard a dreadfull clap of Thunder |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.23 | Pointed in heaven, should clap their wings, and sing | Pointed in heaven, should clap their wings, and sing |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.104 | And clap thyself my love: then didst thou utter | A clap thy selfe, my Loue; then didst thou vtter, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.iii.95 | an end of the ship: to see how the sea flap-dragoned it; | an end of the Ship, to see how the Sea flap-dragon'd it: |