| 1H6 II.v.101 | [Mortimer to Richard] With silence, nephew, be thou politic |
| KL I.iv.320 | [Gonerill to Albany, of Lear] 'Tis politic and safe to let him keep / At point a hundred knights! |
| Oth III.iii.13.1 | [Desdemona to Cassio, of Othello] He shall in strangeness stand no farther off / Than in a politic distance |
| R3 II.iii.20 | [Third Citizen to other Citizens, of Henry VI's reign] then this land was famously enriched / With politic grave counsel |
| Sonn.124.11 | [of love] But all alone stands hugely politic |
| TC III.iii.254 | [Thersites to Achilles, of Ajax] he ... bites his lip with a politic regard |
| TN II.v.155 | [Malvolio to himself] I will read politic authors |