| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.vi.27 | life, and in the highest compulsion of base fear, offer to | life, and in the highest compulsion of base feare, offer to |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.232 | What, upon compulsion? Zounds, an I were | What, vpon compulsion? No: were I |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.234 | not tell you on compulsion. Give you a reason on | not tell you on compulsion. Giue you a reason on |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.235 | compulsion? If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries, I | compulsion? If Reasons were as plentie as Black-berries, I |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.236 | would give no man a reason upon compulsion, I. | would giue no man a Reason vpon compulsion, I. |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.176 | The other by compulsion laid about. | The other by compulsion laid about; |
| King John | KJ II.i.218 | By the compulsion of their ordinance | By the compulsion of their Ordinance, |
| King John | KJ V.ii.44 | Between compulsion and a brave respect! | Between compulsion, and a braue respect: |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.122 | fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves, and | Fooles by heauenly compulsion, Knaues, Theeues, and |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.180 | On what compulsion must I? Tell me that. | On what compulsion must I? Tell me that. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.154 | On terms of base compulsion! Can it be | On termes of base compulsion? Can it be, |