| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.147 | Mowbray, you overween to take it so. | Mowbray, you ouer-weene to take it so: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.159 | Whose overweening arm I have plucked back, | Whose ouer-weening Arme I haue pluckt back, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.58 | Then Bayard-like, blind overweening Ned, | Then Bayardlike, blinde ouerweaning Ned, |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.147 | Upon this overweening traitor's foot, | Vpon this ouer-weening Traitors foote, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.329 | Lash hence these overweening rags of France, | Lash hence these ouer-weening Ragges of France, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.i.29 | Demetrius, thou dost overween in all, | Demetrius, thou doo'st ouer-weene in all, |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.29 | Here's an overweening rogue! | Heere's an ouer-weening rogue. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.157 | Go, base intruder, overweening slave, | Goe base Intruder, ouer-weening Slaue, |