| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.vi.38 | Even like a fawning greyhound in the leash, | Euen like a fawning Grey-hound in the Leash, |
| 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, |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.43 | Low-crooked curtsies and base spaniel fawning. | Low-crooked-curtsies, and base Spaniell fawning: |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.iii.38 | How like a fawning publican he looks. | How like a fawning publican he lookes. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.158 | Bestow thy fawning smiles on equal mates; | Bestow thy fawning smiles on equall mates, |