| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.ii.64 | Come, sister, I am pressed down with conceit – | Come sister, I am prest downe with conceit: |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.ii.9 | They have pressed a power, but it is not known | They haue prest a Power, but it is not knowne |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.122 | That ne'er did service for't. Being pressed to th' war, | They ne're did seruice for't; being prest to'th' Warre, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.ii.20 | duck. I pressed me none but such toasts-and-butter, | Ducke. I prest me none but such Tostes and Butter, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.ii.36 | all the gibbets and pressed the dead bodies. No eye hath | all the Gibbets, and prest the dead bodyes. No eye hath |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.v.64 | From London by the King was I pressed forth; | From London, by the King was I prest forth, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.v.66 | Came on the part of York, pressed by his master; | Came on the part of Yorke, prest by his Master: |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.186 | And pressed in with this caution. First, methought | And prest in with this Caution. First, me thought |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iv.10 | More in the clustering throng are pressed to death | More in the clustering throng are prest to death, |
| King Lear | KL IV.iii.26 | Pantingly forth, as if it pressed her heart, | |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.71 | With half that wish the wisher's eyes be pressed. | With halfe that wish, the wishers eyes be prest. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.150 | And sing while thou on pressed flowers dost sleep; | And sing, while thou on pressed flowers dost sleepe: |
| Othello | Oth III.iv.173 | I have this while with leaden thoughts been pressed: | I haue this while with leaden thoughts beene prest, |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.58 | For every man that Bolingbroke hath pressed | For euery man that Bullingbrooke hath prest, |
| Richard II | R2 III.iv.72 | O, I am pressed to death through want of speaking! | Oh I am prest to death through want of speaking: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.187 | Which thou wilt propagate, to have it pressed | Which thou wilt propagate to haue it preast |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.162 | The large Achilles, on his pressed bed lolling, | The large Achilles (on his prest-bed lolling) |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.109.1 | Is pressed with deeper matter. | Is prest with deeper matter. |