| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.393 | longing and liking, proud, fantastical, apish, shallow, | longing, and liking, proud, fantastical, apish, shallow, |
| King John | KJ V.ii.131 | This apish and unmannerly approach, | This apish and vnmannerly approach, |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.166 | Their manners are so apish. | Their manners are so apish. |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.22 | Whose manners still our tardy-apish nation | Whose manners still our tardie apish Nation |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.49 | Duck with French nods and apish courtesy, | Ducke with French nods, and Apish curtesie, |
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| apish | silly, foolish, trifling |
| apish | ape-like in copying, stupidly imitative |
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