| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.ii.7 | the ruff and sing, ask questions and sing, pick his teeth | the Ruffe and sing, aske questions and sing, picke his teeth, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.i.4 | Caesar to Antony. Let the old ruffian know | Casar to Anthony: let the old Russian know, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.142 | By ruffian lust should be contaminate? | By Ruffian Lust should be contaminate? |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.ii.35 | A fiend, a fairy, pitiless and rough; |
A Feind, a Fairie, pittilesse and ruffe: |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.442 | that Father Ruffian, that Vanity in years? Wherein is he | that Father Ruffian, that Vanitie in yeeres? wherein is he |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.130 | God let me not live but I will murder your ruff | I will murther your Ruffe, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.141 | a poor whore's ruff in a bawdy-house? He a captain! | a poore Whores Ruffe in a Bawdy-house? Hee a Captaine? |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.i.22 | Who take the ruffian billows by the top, | Who take the Ruffian Billowes by the top, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.125 | Have you a ruffian that will swear, drink, dance, | Haue you a Ruffian that will sweare? drinke? dance? |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.186 | Swear like a ruffian, and demean himself | Sweare like a Ruffian, and demeane himselfe |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.175 | His well-proportioned beard made rough and rugged, | His well proportion'd Beard, made ruffe and rugged, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.i.164 | What, wilt thou on thy deathbed play the ruffian, | What wilt thou on thy death-bed play the Ruffian? |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.ii.49 | To die in ruffian battle? Even at this sight | To die in Ruffian battell? Euen at this sight, |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.ii.229 | Would ruffle up your spirits, and put a tongue | Would ruffle vp your Spirits, and put a Tongue |
| King John | KJ III.i.200 | Well, ruffian, I must pocket up these wrongs | Well ruffian, I must pocket vp these wrongs, |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.60 | This ancient ruffian, sir, whose life I have | This ancient Ruffian Sir, whose life I haue |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.296 | Do sorely ruffle. For many miles about | Do sorely ruffle, for many Miles about |
| King Lear | KL III.vii.41 | You should not ruffle thus. What will you do? | You should not ruffle thus. What will you do? |
| Macbeth | Mac V.ii.10 | And many unrough youths that even now | And many vnruffe youths, that euen now |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.89 | Talk with a ruffian at her chamber-window; | Talke with a ruffian at her chamber window, |
| Othello | Oth I.i.111 | service, and you think we are ruffians, you'll have your | seruice, and you thinke we are Ruffians, you'le haue your |
| Othello | Oth II.i.7 | If it hath ruffianed so upon the sea, | If it hath ruffiand so vpon the Sea, |
| Pericles | Per IV.ii.98 | ruff on. | ruffe on. |
| Richard II | R2 II.iv.12 | Rich men look sad, and ruffians dance and leap – | Rich men looke sad, and Ruffians dance and leape, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.281 | A madcap ruffian and a swearing Jack, | A mad-cap ruffian, and a swearing Iacke, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.56 | With ruffs and cuffs and farthingales and things, | With Ruffes and Cuffes, and Fardingales, and things: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.60 | To deck thy body with his ruffling treasure. | To decke thy bodie with his ruffling treasure. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.161 | Smells from the general weal. Make curled-pate ruffians bald, | Smels from the generall weale. Make curld' pate Ruffians bald |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.316 | To ruffle in the commonwealth of Rome. | To ruffle in the Common-wealth of Rome. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.38 | But let the ruffian Boreas once enrage | But let the Ruffian Boreas once enrage |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.i.55 | This ruffian hath botched up, that thou thereby | This Ruffian hath botch'd vp, that thou thereby |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.iv.60 | Ruffian, let go that rude uncivil touch; | Ruffian: let goe that rude vnciuill touch, |