| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iii.72 | More pious debts to heaven than in all | More pious debts to Heauen, then in all |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iii.130 | Breathing like sanctified and pious bawds, | Breathing like sanctified and pious bonds, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.418 | The first row of the pious chanson will show you more. | The first rowe of the Pons Chanson will shew you more. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.48 | And pious action we do sugar o'er | And pious Action, we do surge o're |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.ii.35 | Will bless the King – and is not this course pious? | Will blesse the King: and is not this course pious? |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.140 | Sovereign and pious else, could speak thee out – | Soueraigne and Pious els, could speake thee out) |
| Macbeth | Mac III.vi.12 | In pious rage – the two delinquents tear, | In pious rage, the two delinquents teare, |
| Macbeth | Mac III.vi.27 | Of the most pious Edward with such grace | Of the most Pious Edward, with such grace, |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.iii.16 | And so it is received. Now, pious sir, | And so it is receiu'd: Now (pious Sir) |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.141 | And he whose pious breath seeks to convert you – | And he whose pious breath seekes to conuert you, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.23 | Chosen Andronicus, surnamed Pius | Chosen Andronicus, Sur-named Pious, |