| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.128 | Where love's strong passion is impressed in youth: | Where loues strong passion is imprest in youth, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.142 | You ne'er oppressed me with a mother's groan, | You nere opprest me with a mothers groane, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.50 | Scorned a fair colour or expressed it stolen, | Scorn'd a faire colour, or exprest it stolne, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.106 | Have I my pillow left unpressed in Rome, | Haue I my pillow left vnprest in Rome, |
| As You Like It | AYL II.iv.71 | Here's a young maid with travail much oppressed | Here's a yong maid with trauaile much oppressed, |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.133 | Oppressed with two weak evils, age and hunger, | Opprest with two weake euils, age, and hunger, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.ii.64 | Come, sister, I am pressed down with conceit – | Come sister, I am prest downe with conceit: |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.ii.9 | They have pressed a power, but it is not known | They haue prest a Power, but it is not knowne |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.ii.91 | An o'erpressed Roman and i'th' Consul's view | An o're-prest Roman, and i'th' Consuls view |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.122 | That ne'er did service for't. Being pressed to th' war, | They ne're did seruice for't; being prest to'th' Warre, |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.vi.108 | Who wears my stripes impressed upon him, that | Who weares my stripes imprest vpon him, that |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.203 | By their oppressed and fear-surprised eyes | By their opprest and feare-surprized eyes, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iii.71 | But not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy; | But not exprest in fancie; rich, not gawdie: |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.i.21 | We are impressed and engaged to fight – | We are impressed and ingag'd to fight, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.ii.20 | duck. I pressed me none but such toasts-and-butter, | Ducke. I prest me none but such Tostes and Butter, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.ii.36 | all the gibbets and pressed the dead bodies. No eye hath | all the Gibbets, and prest the dead bodyes. No eye hath |
| Henry V | H5 II.ii.80 | By your own counsel is suppressed and killed. | By your owne counsaile is supprest and kill'd: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.v.92 | In whom the title rested, were suppressed. | In whom the Title rested, were supprest. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.v.64 | From London by the King was I pressed forth; | From London, by the King was I prest forth, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.v.66 | Came on the part of York, pressed by his master; | Came on the part of Yorke, prest by his Master: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.iii.6 | Till Warwick or himself be quite suppressed. | Till Warwicke, or himselfe, be quite supprest. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.viii.45 | Nor much oppressed them with great subsidies, | Nor much opprest them with great Subsidies, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.186 | And pressed in with this caution. First, methought | And prest in with this Caution. First, me thought |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iv.10 | More in the clustering throng are pressed to death | More in the clustering throng are prest to death, |
| King John | KJ II.i.177 | Of this oppressed boy. This is thy eldest son's son, | Of this oppressed boy; this is thy eldest sonnes sonne, |
| King John | KJ II.i.245 | In the relief of this oppressed child | In the releefe of this oppressed childe, |
| King John | KJ III.i.13 | Oppressed with wrongs, and therefore full of fears, | Opprest with wrongs, and therefore full of feares, |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.103 | When nature, being oppressed, commands the mind | When Nature being opprest, commands the mind |
| King Lear | KL III.vi.95.2 | Oppressed nature sleeps. | |
| King Lear | KL IV.iii.26 | Pantingly forth, as if it pressed her heart, | |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.5 | For thee, oppressed King, I am cast down; | For thee oppressed King I am cast downe, |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.51 | And turn our impressed lances in our eyes | And turne our imprest Launces in our eies |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.222 | His heart, like an agate with your print impressed. | His hart like an Agot with your print impressed, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.223 | Proud with his form, in his eye pride expressed. | Proud with his forme, in his eie pride expressed. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.412 | Henceforth my wooing mind shall be expressed | Henceforth my woing minde shall be exprest |
| Macbeth | Mac II.i.39 | Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain? | Proceeding from the heat-oppressed Braine? |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.iv.136 | If you be one, as you are well expressed | If you be one (as you are well exprest |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.iii.145 | Expressed in the condition, let the forfeit | Exprest in the condition, let the forfeite |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.183 | Expressed and not expressed. But when this ring | Exprest, and not exprest: but when this ring |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.257 | It is not so expressed, but what of that? | It is not so exprest: but what of that? |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.71 | With half that wish the wisher's eyes be pressed. | With halfe that wish, the wishers eyes be prest. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.150 | And sing while thou on pressed flowers dost sleep; | And sing, while thou on pressed flowers dost sleepe: |
| Othello | Oth III.iv.173 | I have this while with leaden thoughts been pressed: | I haue this while with leaden thoughts beene prest, |
| Othello | Oth IV.iii.28 | An old thing 'twas; but it expressed her fortune, | An old thing 'twas: but it express'd her Fortune, |
| Pericles | Per III.ii.82 | The o'erpressed spirits. I have read | the ore-prest spirits : I heard |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.58 | For every man that Bolingbroke hath pressed | For euery man that Bullingbrooke hath prest, |
| Richard II | R2 III.iv.68 | Depressed he is already, and deposed | Deprest he is already, and depos'd |
| Richard II | R2 III.iv.72 | O, I am pressed to death through want of speaking! | Oh I am prest to death through want of speaking: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.187 | Which thou wilt propagate, to have it pressed | Which thou wilt propagate to haue it preast |
| The Tempest | Tem III.iii.16 | For, now they are oppressed with travel, they | For now they are oppress'd with trauaile, they |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.79 | To climb his happiness, would be well expressed | To climbe his happinesse, would be well exprest |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.ii.163 | When all our offices have been oppressed | When all our Offices haue beene opprest |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.425 | That hath expressed himself in all his deeds | That hath expre'st himselfe in all his deeds, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.162 | The large Achilles, on his pressed bed lolling, | The large Achilles (on his prest-bed lolling) |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.109.1 | Is pressed with deeper matter. | Is prest with deeper matter. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.22 | Against another, arm oppressed by arm, | Against another: Arme opprest by Arme: |