| 2H6 I.i.179 | [Salisbury to York and Warwick, of Buckingham and Somerset] While these do labour for their own preferment, / Behoves it us to labour for the realm |
| Cym I.vi.71 | [Queen to Pisanio] I'll move the king / To any shape of thy preferment |
| Cym III.v.116 | [Cloten to Pisanio] thou shouldst neither want my means for thy relief, nor my voice for thy preferment |
| Cym III.v.155 | [Cloten to Pisanio] Be but duteous, and true preferment shall tender itself to thee |
| Cym V.iv.208 | [First Gaoler alone] my wish hath a preferment in't |
| H8 V.i.36 | [Lovell to Gardiner] Cromwell ... / Stands in the gap and trade of more preferments |
| KL IV.v.38 | [Regan to Oswald, of Gloucester] Preferment falls on him that cuts him off |
| MV II.ii.135 | [Bassanio to Launcelot] Shylock ... hath preferred thee, if it be preferment / To leave a rich Jew's service |
| R3 I.iii.94 | [Richard to Rivers, of Queen Elizabeth] She may help you to many fair preferments |
| TG I.iii.7 | [Panthino to Antonio] other men ... / Put forth their sons to seek preferment out |
| TS II.i.93 | [Tranio as Lucentio to Baptista, of Katherina] Nor is your firm resolve unknown to me / In the preferment of the eldest sister [i.e. her precedence in the matter of marriage] |
| WT V.ii.112 | [Autolycus alone] had I not the dash of my former life in me, would preferment drop on my head |