| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.i.15 | Why, headstrong liberty is lashed with woe. | Why, headstrong liberty is lasht with woe: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iv.62 | For when his headstrong riot hath no curb, | For when his head-strong Riot hath no Curbe, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iii.173 | Peace, headstrong Warwick! | Peace head-strong Warwicke. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.356 | I have seduced a headstrong Kentishman, | I haue seduc'd a head-strong Kentishman, |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.iii.20 | The needful bits and curbs to headstrong weeds, | (The needfull bits and curbes to headstrong weedes,) |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.ii.16 | How now, my headstrong! Where have you been gadding? | How now my headstrong, / Where haue you bin gadding? |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.i.195 | And thus I'll curb her mad and headstrong humour. | And thus Ile curbe her mad and headstrong humor: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.129 | Katherine, I charge thee, tell these headstrong women | Katherine I charge thee tell these head-strong women, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.121 | Too headstrong for their mother – see, we fools! | Too head-strong for their mother: see we fooles, |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.200 | But such a headstrong, potent fault it is, | But such a head-strong potent fault it is, |