| 1H4 II.iv.444 | [Prince Hal (as King) to Falstaff (as Hal), of Falstaff] Wherein cunning, but in craft? |
| 2H6 I.ii.75 | [Duchess to Hume] Hast thou as yet conferred / With Margery Jourdain, the cunning witch |
| 2H6 IV.i.34 | [Suffolk to Whitmore] A cunning man did calculate my birth [i.e. a fortune teller] |
| Ham III.iv.140.1 | [Gertrude to Hamlet] This bodiless creation ecstasy / Is very cunning in |
| MA II.ii.47 | [Don John to Borachio] Be cunning in the working this, and thy fee is a thousand ducats |
| MA V.i.218 | [Don Pedro to Borachio, of Dogberry] This learned Constable is too cunning to be understood |
| Oth IV.i.90 | [Othello to Iago] I will be found most cunning in my patience |
| R3 III.i.135 | [Buckingham to Hastings, of York] So cunning, and so young, is wonderful |
| RJ IV.ii.2 | [Capulet to Servingman] go hire me twenty cunning cooks |
| Sonn.148.13 | [] O cunning love, with tears thou keep'st me blind |
| TC III.i.28 | [Pandarus to Servant] I am too courtly, and thou art too cunning |
| TN I.v.229 | [Viola as Cesario to Olivia, of Olivia's face] whose red and white / Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on |
| TS I.i.184 | [Lucentio to Tranio, of Baptista and Bianca] art thou not advised he took some care / To get her cunning schoolmasters to instruct her? |
| TS I.i.97 | [Baptista to Gremio and Hortensio] to cunning men / I will be very kind |
| TS II.i.56 | [Petruchio to Baptista, of Hortensio as Licio] Cunning in music and the mathematics |
| TS II.i.80 | [Gremio to Baptista, of Lucentio as Cambio] cunning in Greek, Latin, and other languages |