| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.vii.6.1 | With clouts about their heads. | With clowts about their heads. |
| As You Like It | AYL I.ii.44 | hath given us wit to flout at Fortune, hath not Fortune | hath giuen vs wit to flout at Fortune, hath not Fortune |
| As You Like It | AYL III.iii.97 | knave of them all shall flout me out of my calling. | knaue of them all shal flout me out of my calling. |
| As You Like It | AYL V.i.12 | for: we shall be flouting, we cannot hold. | for: we shall be flouting: we cannot hold. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.ii.91 | What, wilt thou flout me thus unto my face, | What wilt thou flout me thus vnto my face |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.22 | Yea, dost thou jeer and flout me in the teeth? | Yea, dost thou ieere & flowt me in the teeth? |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.46 | Why, first: for flouting me; and then wherefore: | Why first for flowting me, and then wherefore, |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.iii.159 | He flouted us downright. | he flowted vs downe-right. |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.ii.66 | And you will rather show our general louts | And you, will rather shew our generall Lowts, |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.214 | My clouted brogues from off my feet, whose rudeness | My clowted Brogues from off my feete, whose rudenesse |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.ii.9 | This lout, as he exceeds our lords, the odds | This Lowt, as he exceeds our Lords, the oddes |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.382 | out of his swaddling clouts. | out of his swathing clouts. |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.504 | With bisson rheum; a clout upon that head | With Bisson Rheume: A clout about that head, |
| 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 VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.79 | Let not sloth dim your honours new-begot. | Let not slouth dimme your Honors, new begot; |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iii.14 | Shall I be flouted thus by dunghill grooms? | Shall I be flowted thus by dunghill Groomes? |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.ii.7 | And that we find the slothful watch but weak, | And that we finde the slouthfull Watch but weake, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.75 | And what offence it is to flout his friends. | And what offence it is to flout his Friends. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.iii.13 | And I am louted by a traitor villain | And I am lowted by a Traitor Villaine, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.175 | Spare none but such as go in clouted shoon, | Spare none, but such as go in clouted shooen, |
| King John | KJ II.i.373 | By heaven, these scroyles of Angiers flout you, Kings, | By heauen, these scroyles of Angiers flout you kings, |
| King John | KJ II.i.509 | In such a love so vile a lout as he. | In such a loue, so vile a Lout as he. |
| King John | KJ III.i.220 | Hang nothing but a calf's-skin, most sweet lout. | Hang nothing but a Calues skin most sweet lout. |
| King John | KJ III.iv.58 | Or madly think a babe of clouts were he. | Or madly thinke a babe of clowts were he; |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.92 | clout, i' the clout! Hewgh! – Give the word. | clout, i'th'clout: Hewgh. Giue the word. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.i.135 | Indeed, 'a must shoot nearer, or he'll ne'er hit the clout. | Indeede a'must shoote nearer, or heele ne're hit the clout. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.269 | O poverty in wit, kingly-poor flout! | O pouertie in wit, Kingly poore flout. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.397 | Bruise me with scorn, confound me with a flout, | Bruise me with scorne, confound me with a flout. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.710 | dishclout of Jaquenetta's, and that 'a wears next his | dishclout of Iaquenettas, and that hee weares next his |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.833 | Full of comparisons and wounding flouts, | Full of comparisons, and wounding floutes: |
| Macbeth | Mac I.ii.51 | Where the Norweyan banners flout the sky | Where the Norweyan Banners flowt the Skie, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.i.108 | This is well. He has made us his vlouting-stog. I | This is well, he has made vs his vlowting-stog: I |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.v.74 | gibes and vlouting-stocks, and 'tis not convenient you | gibes, and vlouting-stocks: and 'tis not conuenient you |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.134 | But you must flout my insufficiency? | But you must flout my insufficiency? |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.327 | Why will you suffer her to flout me thus? | Why will you suffer her to flout me thus? |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.171 | this with a sad brow? Or do you play the flouting Jack, | this with a sad brow? Or doe you play the flowting iacke, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.266 | guards are but slightly basted on neither. Ere you flout | guardes are but slightly basted on neither, ere you flout |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.144 | to write to one that she knew would flout her. | to write, to one that shee knew would flout her: |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.146 | should flout him, if he writ to me; yea, though I love | should flout him if hee writ to mee, yea though I loue |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.95 | That lie and cog and flout, deprave and slander, | That lye, and cog, and flout, depraue, and slander, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.iv.100 | cannot flout me out of my humour. Dost thou | cannot flout mee out of my humour, dost thou |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.iv.105 | against it; and therefore never flout at me for what I | against it, and therefore neuer flout at me, for I |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.176 | And then, to dry them, gav'st the Duke a clout | And then to dry them, gau'st the Duke a Clowt, |
| Richard III | R3 II.i.80 | To be so flouted in this royal presence? | To be so flowted in this Royall presence? |
| Richard III | R3 II.iv.24 | I could have given my uncle's grace a flout | I could haue giuen my Vnkles Grace, a flout, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.201 | say so, she looks as pale as any clout in the versal world. | say so, shee lookes as pale as any clout in the versall world. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.220 | Romeo's a dishclout to him. An eagle, madam, | Romeos a dish-clout to him: an Eagle Madam |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.29 | Her silence flouts me, and I'll be revenged. | Her silence flouts me, and Ile be reueng'd. |
| The Tempest | Tem III.ii.122 | Flout 'em and scout 'em, | Flout 'em, and cout 'em: |
| The Tempest | Tem III.ii.123 | And scout 'em and flout 'em! | and skowt 'em, and flout 'em, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.244 | But sorrow flouted at is double death. | But sorrow flouted at, is double death. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.ii.26 | You bring me to do – and then you flout me too. | You bring me to doo----and then you floute me too. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.iv.63 | For 'tis no trusting to yond foolish lout; | For 'tis no trusting to yond foolish Lowt; |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.301 | Pronounce thee a gross lout, a mindless slave, | Pronounce thee a grosse Lowt, a mindlesse Slaue, |