| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.ii.20 | Frank nature, rather curious than in haste, | Franke Nature rather curious then in hast |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.32 | measure of his own judgements wherein so curiously he | measure of his owne iudgements, wherein so curiously he |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.ii.35 | Though you be therein curious, the least cause | Though you be therein curious, the lest cause |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vii.191 | And I am something curious, being strange, | And I am something curious, being strange |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.362 | In a most curious mantle, wrought by th' hand | In a most curious Mantle, wrought by th'hand |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.202 | 'Twere to consider too curiously to consider so. | 'Twere to consider: to curiously to consider so. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.v.53 | His body couched in a curious bed, | His bodie couched in a curious bed, |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.32 | I can keep honest counsel, ride, run, mar a curious | I can keepe honest counsaile, ride, run, marre a curious |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.240 | east from the west corner of thy curious-knotted garden. | East from the West corner of thy curious knotted garden; |
| 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 |
| Pericles | Per I.i.17 | Nothing but curious pleasures, as from thence | Nothing but curious pleasures, as from thence, |
| Pericles | Per I.iv.43 | Thought naught too curious are ready now | Thought nought too curious, are readie now |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.31 | What curious eye doth quote deformities? | What curious eye doth quote deformities: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.139 | ‘ The sleeves curiously cut.’ | The sleeues curiously cut. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iv.36 | For curious I cannot be with you, | For curious I cannot be with you |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.64 | pretty abruption? What too curious dreg espies my | pretty abruption: what too curious dreg espies my |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.86 | Hung by a curious baldrick, when he frowns | Hung by a curious Bauldricke; when he frownes |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.511 | I am so fraught with curious business that | I am so fraught with curious businesse, that |