| 1H6 III.i.111 | [King to Winchester] who should study to prefer a peace / If holy churchmen take delight in broils? |
| 2H6 IV.vii.67 | [Say to rebels] my book preferred me to the King |
| Cym I.v.63 | [Iachimo to Posthumus, of Innogen] You must not so far prefer her |
| Cym II.iii.130.1 | [Innogen to Cloten] hated / For being preferred so well |
| Cym II.iii.45 | [Queen to Cloten, of Cymbeline] Who lets go by no vantages that may / Prefer you to his daughter |
| Cym IV.ii.386 | [Lucius to disguised Innogen] thine own worth prefer thee |
| Cym IV.ii.400 | [Lucius to disguised Innogen, of Cloten's body] he is preferred / By thee to us |
| Cym V.v.327 | [Belarius to Cymbeline] Ere I arise I will prefer my sons |
| H8 IV.i.102 | [Third Gentleman to First and Second Gentlemen, of Bishop Gardiner] Newly preferred from the King's secretary |
| JC III.i.28 | [Decius to Brutus, of Metellus] Let him go, / And presently prefer his suit to Caesar |
| JC V.v.62 | [Strato to Octavius, of serving him] Ay, if Messala will prefer me to you |
| LC.280 | []that strong bonded oath, / That shall prefer and undertake my troth |
| MM I.i.54 | [Duke to Angelo] Our haste from hence is of so quick condition / That it prefers itself [i.e. makes itself a priority] |
| MND IV.ii.34 | [Bottom to all] our play is preferred |
| MV II.ii.135 | [Bassanio to Launcelot] Shylock ... hath preferred thee |
| Oth II.i.269 | [Iago to Roderigo, of the latter's desires] the means I shall then have to prefer them |
| Per II.ii.17 | [Simonides to Thaisa, of the knights] Who is the first that doth prefer himself? |
| R3 IV.ii.80 | [King Richard to Tyrrel, of killing the Princes] I will ... prefer thee for it |
| TG II.iv.155 | [Valentine to Proteus, of Julia] I will help thee to prefer her too [punning on prefer = 'have a preference for' in previous line] |
| TG IV.ii.4 | [Proteus alone] I have access my own love to prefer |
| Tim III.v.35 | [First Senator to Alcibiades, of a valiant man] [he can] make his wrongs his outsides ... / And ne'er prefer his injuries to his heart |
| TNK II.ii.82 | [Arcite alone, of Emilia] happiness prefer me to a place / Where I may ever dwell in sight of her |