| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.162 | Into the staggers and the careless lapse | Into the staggers, and the carelesse lapse |
| As You Like It | AYL II.i.52 | The flux of company.’ Anon a careless herd, | The Fluxe of companie: anon a carelesse Heard |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.365 | and everything about you demonstrating a careless | and euerie thing about you, demonstrating a carelesse |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.78 | The light and careless livery that it wears | |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iv.29 | By seeming cold or careless of his will. | By seeming cold, or carelesse of his will. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.ii.38 | My careless father fondly gave away'? | My carelesse Father fondly gaue away. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.vi.86 | My brother was too careless of his charge; | My Brother was too carelesse of his charge. |
| King Edward III | E3 III.ii.19 | When frozen cold hath nipped his careless head. | When frozen cold hath nipt his carelesse head: |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.vii.21 | Speak, thou that wooest death with thy careless smile, | Speake thou that wooest death with thy careles smile |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iv.12.1 | As 'twere a careless trifle. | As 'twere a carelesse Trifle. |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.140 | but as a drunken sleep; careless, reckless, and | but as a drunken sleepe, carelesse, wreaklesse, and |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.52 | Sleep she as sound as careless infancy. | Sleepe she as sound as carelesse infancie, |
| Pericles | Per III.ii.27 | Than nobleness and riches. Careless heirs | then Noblenesse & Riches; / Carelesse Heyres, |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.97 | And thou, too careless patient as thou art, | And thou too care-lesse patient as thou art, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.ii.79 | And come to Padua, careless of your life? | And come to Padua carelesse of your life. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.89 | Titus, unkind and careless of thine own, | Titus vnkinde, and carelesse of thine owne, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.v.40 | With such a careless force and forceless care | With such a carelesse force, and forcelesse care, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.iii.29 | His careless execution, where nor gain | His careles execution, where nor gaine |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.iii.73 | Though happily her careless wear – I followed | Though happely, her careles, were, I followed |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.i.83 | Was knee-deep where she sat; her careless tresses | Was knee deepe where she sat; her careles Tresses, |