| AC IV.xiv.83 | [Antony to Eros, of Eros killing him] Do it at once, / Or thy precedent services are all / But accidents unpurposed |
| Ham III.iv.99 | [Hamlet to Gertrude, of Claudius] A slave that is not twentieth part the tithe / Of your precedent lord |
| Tim I.i.137 | [Old Athenian to Timon] Our own precedent passions do instruct us / What levity's in youth |