| Ham I.i.155 | [Horatio to Marcellus and Barnardo] Th'extravagant and erring spirit hies / To his confine |
| LLL IV.ii.67 | [Holofernes to Nathaniel and Dull, of his literary gift] a foolish extravagant spirit |
| Oth I.i.137 | [Roderigo to Brabantio, of Desdemona] Tying her duty, beauty, wit, and fortunes / In an extravagant and wheeling stranger |
| TNK IV.iii.72 | [Doctor to Gaoler and Wooer, of the Gaoler's Daughter] [her senses] are now in a most extravagant vagary [i.e. wandering everywhere] |