| 2H4 IV.ii.82 | [Archbishop to Mowbray] Against ill chances men are ever merry, / But heaviness foreruns the good event |
| LLL IV.iii.356 | [Berowne to all, of the ladies] revels, dances, masques, and merry hours / Forerun fair Love, strewing her way with flowers |
| MM V.i.8.1 | [Duke to Angelo and Escalus] our soul / Cannot but yield you forth to public thanks, / Forerunning more requital |
| R2 II.iv.15 | [Captain to Salisbury, of abnormalities of nature] These signs forerun the death or fall of kings |
| R2 III.iv.28 | [Queen Isabel to her ladies] Woe is forerun with woe |
| RJ V.i.53 | [Romeo alone, of earlier thinking about poison] this same thought did but forerun my need |