| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.104 | Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly. | Cold wisedome waighting on superfluous follie. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xii.5 | Which had superfluous kings for messengers | Which had superfluous Kings for Messengers, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.97 | Gives me superfluous death. | Giues me superfluous death. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.11 | thou shouldst be so superfluous to demand the time of | thou shouldest bee so superfluous, to demaund the time of |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.142 | It were superfluous, for his apparel is built | It were superfluous: for his apparrel is built |
| Henry V | H5 IV.ii.9 | And dout them with superfluous courage, ha! | And doubt them with superfluous courage: ha. |
| Henry V | H5 IV.ii.24 | That our superfluous lackeys, and our peasants, | That our superfluous Lacquies, and our Pesants, |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.99.1 | At a superfluous rate! | At a superfluous rate. |
| King John | KJ II.i.148 | With this abundance of superfluous breath? | With this abundance of superfluous breath? |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.4 | Was once superfluous. You were crowned before, | Was once superfluous: you were Crown'd before, |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.260 | Are in the poorest thing superfluous. | Are in the poorest thing superfluous. |
| King Lear | KL IV.i.66 | Let the superfluous and lust-dieted man | Let the superfluous, and Lust-dieted man, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.387 | There, then, that visor: that superfluous case | There, then, that vizard, that superfluous case, |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.160 | I have no superfluous leisure. My stay must be | I haue no superfluous leysure, my stay must be |
| Pericles | Per I.iv.54 | With their superfluous riots, hear these tears! | With their superfluous riots heare these teares, |
| Pericles | Per II.iii.2 | To say you're welcome were superfluous. | to say you're welcome, were superfluous. |
| Richard II | R2 III.iv.63 | Their fruits of duty. Superfluous branches | Their fruites of dutie. Superfluous branches |