| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.vii.18 | Lays down his wanton siege before her beauty, | Layes downe his wanton siedge before her beautie, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.211 | And boarded her i'th' wanton way of youth. | And boorded her i'th wanton way of youth: |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.209 | Their nicely gawded cheeks to th' wanton spoil | their nicely gawded Cheekes, to th'wanton spoyle |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.8 | But not so citizen a wanton as | But not so Citizen a wanton, as |
| Hamlet | Ham II.i.22 | But, sir, such wanton, wild, and usual slips | But Sir, such wanton, wild, and vsuall slips, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.184 | Pinch wanton on your cheek, call you his mouse, | Pinch Wanton on your cheeke, call you his Mouse, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.293 | I am afeard you make a wanton of me. | I am affear'd you make a wanton of me. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.207 | She bids you on the wanton rushes lay you down, | She bids you, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.208 | And rest your gentle head upon her lap, | On the wanton Rushes lay you downe, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.i.103 | Wanton as youthful goats, wild as young bulls. | Wanton as youthfull Goates, wilde as young Bulls. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.i.50 | What with the injuries of a wanton time, | What with the iniuries of wanton time, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.148 | Thou art a guard too wanton for the head | Thou art a guard too wanton for the head, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.55 | And with our surfeiting and wanton hours | And with our surfetting, and wanton howres, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.189 | Yea, every idle, nice, and wanton reason, | Yea, euery idle, nice, and wanton Reason, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.19 | Lascivious, wanton, more than well beseems | Lasciuious, wanton, more then well beseemes |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.i.23 | Than wanton dalliance with a paramour. | Than wanton dalliance with a Paramour. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.74 | The wanton Edward, and the lusty George? | The wanton Edward, and the lustie George? |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.210 | For matching more for wanton lust than honour, | For matching more for wanton Lust, then Honor, |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.241 | As if it fed ye! And how sleek and wanton | As if it fed ye, and how sleeke and wanton |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.359 | Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, | Like little wanton Boyes that swim on bladders: |
| King Edward III | E3 II.ii.69 | That poets term the wanton warrior blind; | That Poets tearme, the wanton warriour blinde: |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iv.122 | So tell the courtly wanton, and be gone. | So tell the courtly wanton, and be gone. |
| King John | KJ III.iii.36 | Is all too wanton and too full of gauds | Is all too wanton, and too full of gawdes |
| King John | KJ V.i.70 | A cockered silken wanton, brave our fields | A cockred-silken wanton braue our fields, |
| King Lear | KL IV.i.36 | As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods; | As Flies to wanton Boyes, are we to th'Gods, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.193 | A whitely wanton with a velvet brow, | A whitly wanton, with a veluet brow. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.56 | O, rhymes are guards on wanton Cupid's hose; | O Rimes are gards on wanton Cupids hose, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.102 | Playing in the wanton air. | Playing in the wanton ayre: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.756 | All wanton as a child, skipping and vain, | All wanton as a childe, skipping and vaine. |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iv.35 | Wanton in fulness, seek to hide themselves | Wanton in fulnesse, seeke to hide themselues |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.iv.59 | The wanton stings and motions of the sense, | The wanton stings, and motions of the sence; |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.93 | Which make such wanton gambols with the wind | Which makes such wanton gambols with the winde |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.71 | For do but note a wild and wanton herd | For doe but note a wilde and wanton heard |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.55 | Lord, Lord, your worship's a wanton! Well, God forgive | Lord, Lord, your Worship's a wanton: well: heauen forgiue |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.63 | Tarry, rash wanton! Am not I thy lord? | Tarrie rash Wanton; am not I thy Lord? |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.99 | And the quaint mazes in the wanton green | And the queint Mazes in the wanton greene, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.129 | And grow big-bellied with the wanton wind; | And grow big bellied with the wanton winde: |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.42 | Not to knit my soul to an approved wanton. | Not to knit my soule to an approued wanton. |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.266 | Of feathered Cupid seel with wanton dullness | Of feather'd Cupid, seele with wanton dulnesse |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.16 | not yet made wanton the night with her; and she is | not yet made wanton the night with her: and she is |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.71 | To lip a wanton in a secure couch, | To lip a wanton in a secure Cowch; |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.214 | Four lagging winters and four wanton springs | Foure lagging Winters, and foure wanton springs |
| Richard II | R2 V.i.101 | We make woe wanton with this fond delay. | We make Woe wanton with this fond delay: |
| Richard II | R2 V.iii.10 | Which he – young wanton, and effeminate boy – | Which he, yong wanton, and effeminate Boy |
| Richard III | R3 I.i.17 | To strut before a wanton ambling nymph; | To strut before a wonton ambling Nymph: |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.186 | Made prize and purchase of his wanton eye, | Made prize and purchase of his wanton Eye, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.v.70 | Now comes the wanton blood up in your cheeks. | Now comes the wanton bloud vp in your cheekes, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.vi.19 | That idles in the wanton summer air, | That ydles in the wanton Summer ayre, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.1.45 | And hang it round with all my wanton pictures. | And hang it round with all my wanton pictures: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.2.51 | Which seem to move and wanton with her breath | Which seeme to moue and wanton with her breath, |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.95 | Some wanton charm upon this man and maid, | Some wanton charme, vpon this Man and Maide, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.i.21 | ‘ To wait ’ said I? – to wanton with this queen, | To waite said I? To wanton with this Queene, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC prologue.10 | With wanton Paris sleeps – and that's the quarrel. | With wanton Paris sleepes, and that's the Quarrell. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.222 | Sweet, rouse yourself, and the weak wanton Cupid | Sweete, rouse your selfe; and the weake wanton Cupid |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.56 | Nay, her foot speaks; her wanton spirits look out | Nay, her foote speakes, her wanton spirites looke out |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.220 | Yond towers, whose wanton tops do buss the clouds, | Yond Towers, whose wanton tops do busse the clouds, |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.i.15 | words may quickly make them wanton. | words, may quickely make them wanton. |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.i.19 | word might make my sister wanton. But indeed, words | word, might make my sister wanton: But indeede, words |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.ii.42 | Dare you presume to harbour wanton lines? | Dare you presume to harbour wanton lines? |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.ii.10 | Nay then, the wanton lies; my face is black. | Nay then the wanton lyes: my face is blacke. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.69 | Even in the wagging of a wanton leg, | Even in the wagging of a wanton leg |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.150 | I thank you, cousin Arcite – almost wanton | (I thanke you Cosen Arcite) almost wanton |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.201.2 | Thou art wanton. | Thou art wanton. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.293 | How I would spread, and fling my wanton arms | How I would spread, and fling my wanton armes |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.ii.17 | Tempests, and make the wild rocks wanton. Come what can come, | Tempests, and make the wild Rockes wanton. Come what can come, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.15 | Just such another, wanton Ganymede | Iust such another wanton Ganimead, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.124 | Not wanton white, but such a manly colour | Not wanton white, but such a manly colour |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.86 | Whose youth, like wanton boys through bonfires, | Whose youth like wanton Boyes through Bonfyres |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.148 | Ne'er entered wanton sound – to my petition | Ne're entred wanton sound,) to my petition |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.126 | Upon his palm? – How now, you wanton calf! | Vpon his Palme? How now (you wanton Calfe) |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.18 | One of these days; and then you'd wanton with us, | One of these dayes, and then youl'd wanton with vs, |