| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xv.23 | Lest I be taken. Not th' imperious show | Least I be taken: not th'Imperious shew |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.209 | Imperious Caesar, dead and turned to clay, | Imperiall Casar, dead and turn'd to clay, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.62 | So looks the strand whereon the imperious flood | So lookes the Strond, when the Imperious Flood |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.i.20 | In cradle of the rude imperious surge, | In Cradle of the rude imperious Surge, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.44 | But one imperious in another's throne? | But one imperious in anothers Throne? |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iii.67 | The imperious churchman, Somerset, Buckingham, | The imperious Churchman; Somerset, Buckingham, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.ii.45 | Or this imperious man will work us all | Or this imperious man will worke vs all |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.268 | affright an imperious lion. Sue to him again, and he's | affright an Imperious Lyon. Sue to him againe, and he's |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.253 | Presents well worthy Rome's imperious lord. | Presents well Worthy Romes Imperiall Lord: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iv.81 | King, be thy thoughts imperious like thy name. | King, be thy thoughts Imperious like thy name. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.i.6 | Imperious, and impatient of your wrongs, | Imperious and impatient of your wrongs, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.172 | I thank thee, most imperious Agamemnon. | I thanke thee most imperious Agamemnon. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iv.128 | Whose high imperious thoughts have punished me | Whose high emperious thoughts haue punish'd me |