| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iv.41 | But puts it off to a compelled restraint; | But puts it off to a compell'd restraint: |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.ii.15 | I was compelled to her, but I love thee | I was compell'd to her, but I loue thee |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.311 | Rossillion? An I were not a very coward I'd compel it of | Rossillion, and I were not a verie Coward, I'de compell it of |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.ii.138 | Under a compelling occasion, let women die. | Vnder a compelling an occasion, let women die. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.i.29 | That nature must compel us to lament | That Nature must compell vs to lament |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iii.62 | In his true nature, and we ourselves compelled, | In his true Nature, and we our selues compell'd |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vi.17 | ourselves too slow of sail, we put on a compelled valour, | our selues tooslow of Saile, we put on a compelled Valour. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.i.70 | That I and greatness were compelled to kiss – | That I and Greatnesse were compell'd to kisse:) |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.114 | Was force perforce compelled to banish him, | Was forc'd, perforce compell'd to banish him: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.145 | But he hath forced us to compel this offer, | But hee hath forc'd vs to compell this Offer, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.156 | Say you not then our offer is compelled. | Say you not then, our Offer is compell'd. |
| Henry V | H5 II.iv.101 | That, if requiring fail, he will compel; | That if requiring faile, he will compell. |
| Henry V | H5 III.vi.106 | through the country, there be nothing compelled from | through the Countrey, there be nothing compell'd from |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.85 | And we, for fear, compelled to shut our shops. | And we, for feare, compell'd to shut our Shops. |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.ii.34 | Unfit for other life, compelled by hunger | Vnfit for other life, compeld by hunger |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.ii.57 | Comes through commissions, which compels from each | Comes through Commissions, which compels from each |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iii.87 | This compelled fortune! – have your mouth filled up | This compel'd fortune: haue your mouth fild vp, |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.ii.158 | You will compel me then to read the will? | You will compell me then to read the Will: |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.i.74 | As Pompey was – am I compelled to set | (As Pompey was) am I compell'd to set |
| King Edward III | E3 II.ii.134 | And what I would not, I'll compel I will, | And what I would not, Ile compell I will, |
| King John | KJ IV.i.115 | And, like a dog that is compelled to fight, | And, like a dogge that is compell'd to fight, |
| Macbeth | Mac I.ii.30 | Compelled these skipping kerns to trust their heels | Compell'd these skipping Kernes to trust their heeles, |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.iv.57 | I talk not of your soul. Our compelled sins | I talke not of your soule: our compel'd sins |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.252 | encounter acknowledge itself hereafter, it may compel | encounter acknowledge it selfe heereafter, it may compell |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.248 | If she cannot entreat, I can compel. | If she cannot entreate, I can compell. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.249 | Thou canst compel no more than she entreat. | Thou canst compell, no more then she entreate. |
| Othello | Oth II.i.228 | compel her to some second choice. Now, sir, this granted | compell her to some second choice. Now Sir, this granted |
| Pericles | Per III.ii.25.1 | Being thereto not compelled. | Being thereto not compelled. |
| Richard III | R3 V.v.26 | The son, compelled, been butcher to the sire: | The Sonne compell'd, beene Butcher to the Sire; |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.i.68 | And then they fight like compelled bears, would fly | And then they fight like compelld Beares, would fly |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.88 | He cannot be compelled to't – once remove | He cannot be compell'd too't) once remoue |