| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.v.102 | hats, and most courteous feathers which bow the head | hats, and most courteous feathers, which bow the head, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.iii.86 | Courteous lord, one word. | Courteous Lord, one word: |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.227 | Which she entreated. Our courteous Antony, | Which she entreated, our Courteous Anthony, |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iv.70 | mind it was: this is called the Retort Courteous. If I | minde it was: this is call'd the retort courteous. If I |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iv.89 | degrees. The first, the Retort Courteous; the second, | degrees. The first, the Retort courteous: the second, |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.ii.25 | who, having been supple and courteous to the people, | who hauing beene supple and courteous to the People, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iv.60.2 | Look with what courteous action | Looke with what courteous action |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.ii.43 | Witty, courteous, liberal, full of spirit. | Wittie, courteous, liberall, full of spirit. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ix.90 | To wit, besides commends and courteous breath, | To wit (besides commends and curteous breath) |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.148 | Go give him courteous conduct to this place. | Go giue him curteous conduct to this place, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.409 | We freely cope your courteous pains withal. | We freely cope your curteous paines withall. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.159 | Be kind and courteous to this gentleman. | Be kinde and curteous to this Gentleman, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.175 | Thanks, courteous wall; Jove shield thee well for this. | Thankes courteous wall. Ioue shield thee well for this. |
| Pericles | Per II.iii.27.1 | You are right courteous knights. | You are right courtious Knights. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.55 | A most courteous exposition. | A most curteous exposition. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.v.56 | courteous, and a kind, and a handsome, and, I warrant, | And a courteous, and a kind, and a handsome, / And I warrant |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.ii.62 | O courteous Tybalt, honest gentleman! | O curteous Tybalt honest Gentleman, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.ii.97 | An affable and courteous gentleman. | An affable and courteous Gentleman, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.239 | For thou are pleasant, gamesome, passing courteous, | For thou art pleasant, gamesome, passing courteous, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.vi.95 | Courteous destroyers, affable wolves, meek bears, | Curteous Destroyers, affable Wolues, meeke Beares: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.ii.188 | Have with you, Prince. – My courteous lord, adieu. – | Haue with you Prince: my curteous Lord adew: |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.248 | this courteous office, as to know of the knight what my | this courteous office, as to know of the Knight what my |