| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.244 | If it assume my noble father's person, | If it assume my noble Fathers person, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iv.72 | And there assume some other, horrible form, | And there assumes some other horrible forme, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.598 | T' assume a pleasing shape, yea, and perhaps | T'assume a pleasing shape, yea and perhaps |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.161 | Assume a virtue, if you have it not. | Assume a Vertue, if you haue it not, |
| Henry V | H5 I.chorus.6 | Assume the port of Mars, and at his heels, | Assume the Port of Mars, and at his heeles |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.185 | Into a madman's rags, t' assume a semblance | Into a mad-mans rags, t'assume a semblance |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ix.51 | I will assume desert. Give me a key for this, | I will assume desert; giue me a key for this, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.87 | And these assume but valour's excrement | And these assume but valors excrement, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.300 | I will assume thy part in some disguise | I will assume thy part in some disguise, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.221 | answered her; my very visor began to assume life and | answered her: my very visor began to assume life, and |
| Pericles | Per I.i.62 | Like a bold champion I assume the lists, | Like a bold Champion I assume the Listes, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.219 | Rascals should have't. Do not assume my likeness. | Rascals should haue't. Do not assume my likenesse. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.ii.148 | Without perdition, and loss assume all reason | Without perdition, and losse assume all reason, |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.232 | If spirits can assume both form and suit | If spirits can assume both forme and suite, |