| 1H6 V.iv.48 | [Pucelle to all] You judge it straight a thing impossible / To compass wonders but by help of devils |
| E3 IV.i.37 | [Salisbury to Villiers] if thou canst not compass my desire |
| MW III.iii.188 | [Ford to his companions, of Falstaff] Maybe the knave bragged of that he could not compass |
| Oth I.iii.355 | [Iago to Roderigo, of Desdemona] Seek thou rather to be hanged in compassing thy joy than to be drowned and go without her |
| Oth II.i.233 | [Iago to Roderigo, of Cassio] putting on the mere form of civil and humane seeming for the better compassing of his salt and most hidden loose affection |
| Per I.i.25 | [Pericles to the gods] be my helps ... / To compass such a boundless happiness! |
| Tem III.ii.58 | [Stephano to Caliban, of the plan to kill Prospero] How now shall this be compassed? |
| TN I.ii.45.2 | [Captain to Viola, of her staying unrevealed to the world] That were hard to compass |
| Ven.567 | [] Things out of hope are compassed oft with vent'ring |