| Ven.430 | [Venus to Adonis] I had my load before, now pressed with bearing |
| Ven.545 | [of Adonis and Venus] He with her plenty pressed, she faint with dearth |
| WT II.iii.39.1 | [Paulina to Lords, of Leontes] I / Do come ... to purge him of that humour / That presses him from sleep [i.e. and thus stops him sleeping] |