| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iv.43 | Which they distil now in the curbed time, | Which they distill now in the curbed time, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.71 | So much uncurbable, her garboils, Caesar, | So much vncurbable, her Garboiles (Casar) |
| As You Like It | AYL III.iii.73 | curb, and the falcon her bells, so man hath his desires; | curb, and the Falcon her bels, so man hath his desires, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.68 | The way it takes, cracking ten thousand curbs | The way it takes: cracking ten thousand Curbes |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.39 | To curb the will of the nobility. | To curbe the will of the Nobilitie: |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iii.119 | Yet you are curbed from that enlargement, by | Yet you are curb'd from that enlargement, by |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.156 | Yea, curb and woo for leave to do him good. | Yea courb, and woe, for leaue to do him good. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.60 | the rusty curb of old Father Antic the law? Do not thou | the rustie curbe of old Father Anticke the Law? Doe not thou |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.165 | And curbs himself even of his natural scope | And curbes himselfe, euen of his naturall scope, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iv.62 | For when his headstrong riot hath no curb, | For when his head-strong Riot hath no Curbe, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.131 | For the fifth Harry from curbed licence plucks | For the Fift Harry, from curb'd License pluckes |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.245 | Therefore with frank and with uncurbed plainness | Therefore with franke and with vncurbed plainnesse, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.150 | Curtail and curb your sweetest liberty. | Curtall and courb your swetest libertie. |
| Macbeth | Mac I.ii.59 | Curbing his lavish spirit; and to conclude, | Curbing his lauish spirit: and to conclude, |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.iii.20 | The needful bits and curbs to headstrong weeds, | (The needfull bits and curbes to headstrong weedes,) |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.ii.23 | who I dislike, so is the will of a living daughter curbed | whom I dislike, so is the wil of a liuing daughter curb'd |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.214 | And curb this cruel devil of his will. | And curbe this cruell diuell of his will. |
| Pericles | Per V.iii.31 | But curb it, spite of seeing. O, my lord, | but curbe it spight of seeing: O my Lord |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.54 | First, the fair reverence of your highness curbs me | First the faire reuerence of your Highnesse curbes mee, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.i.195 | And thus I'll curb her mad and headstrong humour. | And thus Ile curbe her mad and headstrong humor: |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.445 | The laws, your curb and whip, in their rough power | The Lawes, your curbe and whip, in their rough power |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.182 | To curb those raging appetites that are | To curbe those raging appetites that are |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iv.74 | When neither curb would crack, girth break, nor differing plunges | When neither Curb would cracke, girth breake nor diffring plunges |