| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.viii.14 | Officious and not valiant, you have shamed me | Officious and not valiant, you haue sham'd me |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.237 | I mean your malice – know, officious lords, | (I meane your malice) know, Officious Lords, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.330.2 | You are too officious | You are too officious, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.200 | Come, come, be everyone officious | Come, come, be eueryone officious, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.158 | You that have been so tenderly officious | You that haue beene so tenderly officious |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.833 | let him call me rogue for being so far officious; for I am | let him call me Rogue, for being so farre officious, for I am |