| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.vii.44 | Let us assay our plot, which, if it speed, | Let vs assay our plot, which if it speed, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.71 | To give th' assay of arms against your majesty. | To giue th'assay of Armes against your Maiestie. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.14.2 | Did you assay him | Did you assay him |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iii.69 | Art more engaged! Help, angels! Make assay. | Art more ingag'd: Helpe Angels, make assay: |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.iv.33 | I will assay thee, and defend thyself. | I will assay thee: so defend thy selfe. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.118 | I would assay, proud Queen, to make thee blush. | I would assay, prowd Queene, to make thee blush. |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iv.12 | O hapless fortune! Let us yet assay | O haplesse fortune, let vs yet assay, |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.143 | The great assay of art; but at his touch, | The great assay of Art. But at his touch, |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.ii.180 | To the strict deputy, bid herself assay him. | To the strict deputie: bid her selfe assay him, |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.iv.76.2 | Assay the power you have. | Assay the powre you haue. |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.164 | purpose to corrupt her; only he hath made an assay of | purpose to corrupt her; onely he hath made an assay of |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.i.24 | manner assay me? Why, he hath not been thrice in my | manner assay me? why, hee hath not beene thrice / In my |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.18 | By no assay of reason. 'Tis a pageant | By no assay of reason. 'Tis a Pageant |
| Othello | Oth II.i.119 | Come on, assay. There's one gone to the harbour? | Come on, assay. / There's one gone to the Harbour? |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.405 | Let us make the assay upon him. If he | Let vs make the assay vpon him, if he |