| CE I.i.79 | [Egeon to Duke] My wife, more careful for the latter-born |
| CE V.i.299 | [Egeon to Antipholus and Dromio of Ephesus] careful hours with time's deformed hand / Have written strange defeatures in my face |
| H5 IV.i.224 | [King Henry alone] Let us our lives, our souls, / Our debts, our careful wives ... lay on the King! |
| H8 I.ii.130 | [Wolsey to and of Surveyor] Most like a careful subject |
| R2 II.ii.75 | [Queen Isabel to Green, of York] full of careful business are his looks! |
| R3 I.iii.82 | [Queen Elizabeth to Richard] By Him that raised me to this careful height |
| Sonn.143.1 | [] Like as a careful housewife runs to catch / One of her feathered creatures broke away |
| Tit IV.iv.84 | [Tamora to Saturninus] The eagle suffers little birds to sing, / And is not careful what they mean thereby |