| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.vii.21 | Now his important blood will naught deny | Now his important blood will naught denie, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.iii.38 | When it is all to naught, and his quails ever | When it is all to naught: and his Quailes euer |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.v.21.2 | 'Twill be naught; | 'Twillbe naught, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.x.1 | Naught, naught, all naught! I can behold no longer. | Naught, naught, al naught, I can behold no longer: |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xv.77 | Till they had stolen our jewel. All's but naught. | Till they had stolne our Iewell. All's but naught: |
| As You Like It | AYL I.i.33 | Marry, sir, be better employed, and be naught a | Marry sir be better employed, and be naught a |
| As You Like It | AYL I.ii.63 | honour the mustard was naught: now I'll stand to it | Honor the Mustard was naught: Now Ile stand to it, |
| As You Like It | AYL I.ii.64 | the pancakes were naught and the mustard was good, | the Pancakes were naught, and the Mustard was good, |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.15 | is naught. In respect that it is solitary, I like it very well; | is naught. In respect that it is solitary, I like it verie well: |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.i.92 | Blows fair from land. They stay for naught at all | Blowes faire from land: they stay for nought at all, |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.230.1 | All will be naught else. | All will be naught else. |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.269.1 | Which he so sets at nought. | Which he so sets at naught. |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.271 | O, she was naught; and long of her it was | Oh, she was naught; and long of her it was |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.156 | You are naught, you are naught. I'll mark the | You are naught, you are naught, Ile marke the |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.ii.85 | To have a son set your decrees at naught? | To haue a Sonne, set your Decrees at naught? |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.v.38 | For Doll is in. Pistol speaks naught but truth. | for Dol is in. Pistol, speakes nought but troth. |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.73 | Though in pure truth it was corrupt and naught, | Though in pure truth it was corrupt and naught, |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.252 | And bids you be advised there's naught in France | And bids you be aduis'd: There's nought in France, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.ii.135 | Till by broad spreading it disperse to naught. | Till by broad spreading, it disperse to naught. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iii.70 | Naught rests for me in this tumultuous strife | Naught rests for me, in this tumultuous strife, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.216 | And can do naught but wail her darling's loss; | And can doe naught but wayle her Darlings losse; |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.307 | What, worse than naught? Nay, then a shame take all! | What, worse then naught? nay, then a shame take all. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.366 | Myself no joy in naught but that thou livest. | My selfe no ioy in nought, but that thou liu'st. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.i.7 | This hand was made to handle naught but gold. | This hand was made to handle nought but Gold. |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.135 | A better wife, let him in nought be trusted | A better Wife, let him in naught be trusted, |
| Henry VIII | H8 epilogue.5 | They'll say 'tis naught. Others to hear the city | They'l say tis naught. Others to heare the City |
| King Edward III | E3 I.i.169 | In great affairs 'tis naught to use delay. | In great affaires tis nought to vse delay. |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.ii.72 | I will accept of naught but fire and sword, | Will accept of nought but fire and sword, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.vi.32 | The spirit of fear, that feareth naught but death, | The spirit of feare that feareth nought but death, |
| King John | KJ III.iv.111 | That it yields naught but shame and bitterness. | That it yeelds nought but shame and bitternesse. |
| King John | KJ V.vii.117 | And we shall shock them! Naught shall make us rue | And we shall shocke them: Naught shall make vs rue, |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.78 | Knowing naught – like dogs – but following. – | Knowing naught (like dogges) but following: |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.129 | Thy sister's naught. O Regan, she hath tied | Thy Sisters naught: oh Regan, she hath tied |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.136 | Shall so wear out to naught. Dost thou know me? | Shall so weare out to naught. / Do'st thou know me? |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.92 | Too much to know is to know naught but fame, | Too much to know, is to know nought but fame: |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.i.69 | Hear his speech, but say thou naught. | Heare his speech, but say thou nought. |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.224 | They were all struck for thee. Naught that I am, | They were all strooke for thee: Naught that I am, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.81 | Since naught so stockish, hard, and full of rage | Since naught so stockish, hard, and full of rage, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.197 | When naught would be accepted but the ring, | When nought would be accepted but the Ring, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.462 | Naught shall go ill. | nought shall goe ill. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.ii.14 | us – a thing of naught. | vs) a thing of nought. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.151 | curiously, say my knife's naught. Shall I not find a | curiously, say my knife's naught, shall I not finde a |
| Othello | Oth I.i.48 | For naught but provender, and when he's old – cashiered! | For naught but Prouender, & when he's old Casheer'd. |
| Othello | Oth I.i.163 | Is naught but bitterness. Now, Roderigo, | Is naught but bitternesse. Now Rodorigo, |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.185 | With nought but truth. I have wasted myself | With naught but truth: I haue wasted my selfe |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.292 | For naught did I in hate, but all in honour. | For nought I did in hate, but all in Honour. |
| Pericles | Per I.iv.43 | Thought naught too curious are ready now | Thought nought too curious, are readie now |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.53 | As to be hushed, and naught at all to say. | As to be husht, and nought at all to say. |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.83 | Whose hollow womb inherits naught but bones. | Whose hollow wombe inherits naught but bones. |
| Richard II | R2 II.ii.23 | Which looked on as it is, is naught but shadows | Which look'd on as it is, is naught bur shadowes |
| Richard III | R3 I.i.97 | With this, my lord, myself have naught to do. | With this (my Lord) my selfe haue nought to doo. |
| Richard III | R3 I.i.98 | Naught to do with Mistress Shore? I tell thee, fellow, | Naught to do with Mistris Shore? |
| Richard III | R3 I.i.99 | He that doth naught with her, excepting one, | I tell thee Fellow, he that doth naught with her / (Excepting one) |
| Richard III | R3 III.vi.13 | Bad is the world, and all will come to naught | Bad is the World, and all will come to nought, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iii.13 | For naught so vile that on the earth doth live | For nought so vile, that on the earth doth liue, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.ii.87 | All forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers. | all forsworne, all naught, all dissemblers, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.158 | If love have touched you, naught remains but so – | If loue haue touch'd you, naught remaines but so, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.18 | Art ignorant of what thou art, naught knowing | Art ignorant of what thou art. naught knowing |
| The Tempest | Tem III.ii.66 | He shall drink naught but brine, for I'll not show him | He shall drinke nought but brine, for Ile not shew him |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.vi.110 | He's but a mad lord, and naught but humours | He's but a mad Lord, & nought but humors |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.377 | I am sick of this false world, and will love naught | I am sicke of this false world, and will loue nought |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.149 | Remaineth naught but to inter our brethren, | Remaineth nought but to interre our Brethren, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iv.7 | Buzz in the people's ears, there naught hath past | Buz in the peoples eares) there nought hath past, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.i.85 | Or else I will discover naught to thee. | Ore else I will discouer nought to thee. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.288 | That she beloved knows naught that knows not this: | That she belou'd, knowes nought, that knowes not this; |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.19 | And call them shame, which are, indeed, naught else | And thinke them shame, which are (indeed) nought else |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.249 | He hears naught privately that comes from Troy. | He heares nought priuatly / That comes from Troy. |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.i.11 | Receiveth as the sea, naught enters there, | Receiueth as the Sea. Nought enters there, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.i.68 | War with good counsel, set the world at naught; | Warre with good counsaile; set the world at nought; |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.83 | And naught esteems my aged eloquence. | And naught esteemes my aged eloquence. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.iv.64 | Thou hast beguiled my hopes; naught but mine eye | Thou hast beguil'd my hopes; nought but mine eye |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.v.9 | We convent naught else but woes, | We convent nought else but woes. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.v.10 | We convent naught else but woes. | We convent, &c. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.iii.52.1 | Get off your trinkets; you shall want naught. | Get off your Trinkets, you shall want nought; |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iv.73 | His lord, that kept it bravely. When naught served, | His Lord, that kept it bravely: when nought serv'd, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iv.111 | The loss of our desire! That naught could buy | The losse of our desire; That nought could buy |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.177 | That lacked sight only, naught for approbation | That lack'd sight onely, nought for approbation |