| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL III.iv.54 | I'll prove a busy actor in their play. | Ile proue a busie actor in their play. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.34 | Thou findest to be too busy is some danger. – | Thou find'st to be too busie, is some danger. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.213 | Be it thy course to busy giddy minds | Be it thy course to busie giddy Mindes |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.ii.76 | Whiles I was busy for the commonwealth, | Whiles I was busie for the Commonwealth, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.chorus.13 | With busy hammers closing rivets up, | With busie Hammers closing Riuets vp, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iv.8 | Hume, that you be by her aloft, while we be busy below; | Hume, that you be by her aloft, while wee be busie below; |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.339 | My brain, more busy than the labouring spider, | My Brayne, more busie then the laboring Spider, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.iii.21 | O, beat away the busy meddling fiend | Oh beate away the busie medling Fiend, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.ii.79.2 | We are busy; go. | We are busie; goe. |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.232 | Which busy care draws in the brains of men; | Which busie care drawes, in the braines of men; |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.63 | As I was busy in my watchful charge, | As I was busie in my watchfull charge. |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iv.128 | Thyself art busy and bit with many broils, | Thy selfe art busie, and bit with many broiles, |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.141 | Do you busy yourself with that? | Do you busie your selfe with that? |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.181 | On meddling monkey or on busy ape – | On medling Monkey, or on busie Ape) |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.ii.3 | He is very busy about it. But, brother, I can tell | He is very busie about it, but brother, I can tell |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.ii.24 | use your skill. Good cousin, have a care this busy time. | vse your skill, / good cosin haue a care this busie time. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.v.4 | Brief, I pray you, for you see it is a busy time | Briefe I pray you, for you see it is a busie time |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.251 | Let me be thought too busy in my fears, | Let me be thought too busie in my feares, |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.228 | He did not call: he's busy in the paper. | He did not call: he's busie in the paper, |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.130 | Some busy and insinuating rogue, | Some busie and insinuating Rogue, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.144 | My Lord of Gloucester, in those busy days | My Lord of Gloster: in those busie dayes, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.18 | For, lords, tomorrow is a busy day. | For Lords, to morrow is a busie day. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.iii.6 | What, are you busy, ho? Need you my help? | What are you busie ho? need you my help? |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.i.13 | They're busy within. You were best knock louder. | They're busie within, you were best knocke lowder. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.80 | That she is busy and she cannot come. | That she is busie, and she cannot come. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.81 | How? She's busy, and she cannot come! | How? she's busie, and she cannot come: |
| The Tempest | Tem III.i.15.1 | Most busy lest when I do it. | Most busie lest, when I doe it. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.ii.8 | O Cressida! But that the busy day, | O Cressida! but that the busie day |