| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.iii.8 | Soldiers, have careful watch. | Souldiers, haue carefull Watch. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.i.79 | My wife, more careful for the latter-born, | My wife, more carefull for the latter borne, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.299 | And careful hours with time's deformed hand | And carefull houres with times deformed hand, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.i.6 | You come most carefully upon your hour. | You come most carefully vpon your houre. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.316 | – in which doing, I have done the part of a careful friend | In which doing, I haue done the part of a carefull Friend, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.69 | For this the foolish overcareful fathers | For this, the foolish ouer-carefull Fathers |
| Henry V | H5 II.iv.2 | And more than carefully it us concerns | And more then carefully it vs concernes, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.224 | Our debts, our careful wives, | Our Debts, our carefull Wiues, |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.ii.130 | Most like a careful subject, have collected | Most like a carefull Subiect haue collected |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.115 | it shall lose thee nothing; do it carefully – and the noble | it shall lose thee nothing, do it carefully: and the Noble |
| King Lear | KL III.iii.18 | toward, Edmund. Pray you, be careful. | toward Edmund,pray you be carefull. |
| Othello | Oth V.i.99 | Some good man bear him carefully from hence. | Some good man beare him carefully from hence, |
| Pericles | Per I.ii.81 | Under the covering of a careful night | Vnder the couering of a carefull night, |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.III.16 | Of Pericles the careful search, | Of Perycles the carefull search, |
| Pericles | Per III.i.80 | At careful nursing. Go thy ways, good mariner; | At carefull nursing: goe thy wayes good Mariner, |
| Richard II | R2 II.ii.75 | O, full of careful business are his looks! | Oh full of carefull businesse are his lookes: |
| Richard II | R2 V.v.80 | That horse that I so carefully have dressed! | That horse, that I so carefully haue drest. |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.82 | By Him that raised me to this careful height | By him that rais'd me to this carefull height, |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.96 | Madam, bethink you like a careful mother | Madam, bethinke you like a carefull Mother |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.54 | Use careful watch, choose trusty sentinels. | Vse carefull Watch, choose trusty Centinels, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.107 | Well, well, thou hast a careful father, child: | Well, well, thou hast a carefull Father Child? |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.ii.163 | I promised to enquire carefully | I promist to enquire carefully |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.174 | For vainer hours, and tutors not so careful. | For vainer howres; and Tutors, not so carefull. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.ii.8 | To attend the Emperor's person carefully. | To attend the Emperours person carefully: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iii.21 | Go, get you gone, and pray be careful all, | Goe get you gone, and pray be carefull all, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iii.28 | By day and night t' attend him carefully | By day and night t'attend him carefully: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iii.30 | Till time beget some careful remedy. | Till time beget some carefull remedie. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iv.84 | And is not careful what they mean thereby, | And is not carefull what they meane thereby, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.i.77 | Which I have seen thee careful to observe, | Which I haue seene thee carefull to obserue: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.21 | The feast is ready which the careful Titus | The Feast is ready which the carefull Titus, |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.ii.9 | fairly as to say a careful man and a great scholar. The | fairely, as to say, a carefull man, & a great scholler. The |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.681 | a careful man work. | a carefull man worke. |