| 1H6 IV.i.71 | [Talbot to King] but that I am prevented, / I should have begged I might have been employed |
| 2H4 I.ii.234 | [Falstaff to himself, of youth and age] both the degrees prevent my curses |
| 3H6 IV.iv.29 | [Lady Grey to Rivers, of Warwick] to prevent the tyrant's violence ... / I'll hence forthwith unto the sanctuary |
| 3H6 IV.vi.96 | [Somerset to Oxford, of Richmond] to prevent the worst, / Forthwith we'll send him hence to Brittany |
| AC III.vi.51 | [Caesar to Octavia] you ... have prevented / The ostentation of our love [or: stopped] |
| AW III.iv.22.1 | [Countess to Steward, of Helena] I could have well diverted her intents, / Which thus she hath prevented |
| AYL IV.i.55 | [Rosalind as Ganymede to Orlando, of the snail as suitor] he comes armed in his fortune, and prevents the slander of his wife |
| Ham II.ii.294 | [Hamlet to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern] So shall my anticipation prevent your discovery |
| JC II.i.160 | [Cassius to all, of danger from Antony] which to prevent, / Let Antony and Caesar fall together |
| JC III.i.35.2 | [Caesar to Metellus, interrupting him] I must prevent thee |
| JC V.i.104 | [Brutus to Cassius] I do find it cowardly ... / For fear of what might fall, so to prevent / The time of life |
| MV I.i.61 | [Salerio to Antonio] I would have stayed till I had made you merry, / If worthier friends had not prevented me |
| Per V.i.62 | [Helicanus to Lysimachus] I am prevented |
| R3 III.iv.81 | [Hastings to himself, of his imminent execution] I, too fond, might have prevented this |
| TN III.i.81 | [Viola as Cesario to Sir Toby, of Olivia's arrival] we are prevented |
| TNK V.iv.6 | [Palamon to his knights] We prevent / The loathsome misery of age |