| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.114 | Was round encompassed and set upon. | Was round incompassed, and set vpon: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.ii.53 | Encompassed with thy lustful paramours, | Incompass'd with thy lustfull Paramours, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.15 | Or as a bear encompassed round with dogs, | Or as a Beare encompass'd round with Dogges: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.ii.3 | That sought to be encompassed with your crown. | That sought to be incompast with your Crowne. |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.154 | That her wide walls encompassed but one man? | That her wide Walkes incompast but one man? |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.420 | When poison hath encompassed the root; | When poyson hath encompassed the roote: |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iv.33 | He's close encompassed with a world of odds! | Hees close incompast with a world of odds. |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iii.59 | And we have compassed him; he cannot scape. | And we haue compast him he cannot scape. |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.v.59 | And make their way to the encompassed prince. | And make their waie to the incompast prince, |
| Macbeth | Mac V.vi.95 | I see thee compassed with thy kingdom's pearl | I see thee compast with thy Kingdomes Pearle, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.149 | encompassed you? Go to; via! | encompass'd you? goe to, via. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.v.101 | next, to be compassed like a good bilbo in the circumference | Next to be compass'd like a good Bilbo in the circumference |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.135 | ‘ With a small compassed cape.’ | With a small compast cape. |
| The Tempest | Tem III.ii.58 | How now shall this be compassed? Canst | How now shall this be compast? / Canst |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.112 | th' other day into the compassed window – and you | th'other day into the compast window, and you |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.1.3 | after Hymen, a nymph, encompassed in her tresses, | After Hymen, a Nimph, encompast in her Tresses, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.i.62 | Had so encompassed it. I laid me down | Had so encompast it: I laide me downe |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iii.93 | a bailiff; then he compassed a motion of the Prodigal | (a Bayliffe) then hee compast a Motion of the Prodigall |