| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Hamlet | Ham II.i.10 | By this encompassment and drift of question | By this encompassement and drift of question, |
| 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.v.59 | And make their way to the encompassed prince. | And make their waie to the incompast prince, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.149 | encompassed you? Go to; via! | encompass'd you? goe to, via. |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.203 | Look how this ring encompasseth thy finger, | Looke how my Ring incompasseth thy Finger, |
| 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 |