| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.i.170 | thought no less. That flattering tongue of yours won | thought no lesse: that flattering tongue of yours wonne |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vi.27 | (aside) Here comes a flattering rascal, upon him | Heere comes a flattering Rascall, vpon him |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.175 | The woman's: flattering, hers; deceiving, hers; | The womans: Flattering, hers; Deceiuing, hers: |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.146 | Lay not that flattering unction to your soul, | Lay not a flattering Vnction to your soule, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.iii.29 | Flattering himself in project of a power | Flatt'ring himselfe with Proiect of a power, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.263 | Thou dost give me flattering busses. | Thou do'st giue me flatt'ring Busses. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.161 | I fear me, lords, for all this flattering gloss, | I feare me Lords, for all this flattering glosse, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.143 | Flattering me with impossibilities. | Flattering me with impossibilities: |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.116 | Like to a flattering glass, doth make more fair | Like to a flattering glas doth make more faire, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.117 | The yellow amber. – ‘ Like a flattering glass ’ | The yelow Amber like a flattering glas, |
| King John | KJ II.i.503 | Drawn in the flattering table of her eye. | Drawne in the flattering table of her eie. |
| King John | KJ II.i.504 | Drawn in the flattering table of her eye! | Drawne in the flattering table of her eie, |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.116 | When he, compact, and flattering his displeasure, | When he compact, and flattering his displeasure |
| Macbeth | Mac III.ii.33 | Must lave our honours in these flattering streams, | must laue / Our Honors in these flattering streames, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.ii.7 | O, you are a flattering boy. Now I see | O you are a flattering boy, now I see |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.iii.28 | this, though I cannot be said to be a flattering honest | this (though I cannot be said to be a flattering honest |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.17 | No, it is stopped with other, flattering sounds, | No, it is stopt with other flatt'ring sounds |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.278 | And made no deeper wounds? O, flattering glass, | And made no deeper Wounds? Oh flatt'ring Glasse, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.85 | The flattering index of a direful pageant, | The flattering Index of a direfull Pageant; |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.141 | Too flattering-sweet to be substantial. | Too flattering sweet to be substantiall. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.i.1 | If I may trust the flattering truth of sleep, | If I may trust the flattering truth of sleepe, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.1.42 | Even as a flattering dream or worthless fancy. | Euen as a flatt'ring dreame, or worthles fancie. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.ii.72 | Flattering myself, as if it were the Moor | Flattering myselfes, as if it were the Moore, |