| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xv.19 | I here importune death awhile, until | I heere importune death a-while, vntill |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.371 | My mother and the peers importune you | My mother and the Peeres importune you, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iii.1 | I wonder, Villiers, thou shouldst importune me | I wounder Villiers, thou shouldest importune me |
| King Lear | KL III.iv.154 | Importune him once more to go, my lord. | Importune him once more to go my Lord, |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.i.56 | As time and our concernings shall importune, | As time, and our concernings shall importune, |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.430 | Against all sense you do importune her. | Against all sence you doe importune her, |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.309 | Confess yourself freely to her; importune her help to | Confesse your selfe freely to her: Importune her helpe to |
| Othello | Oth III.iv.104 | And lo, the happiness! Go, and importune her. | And loe the happinesse: go, and importune her. |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.14 | God will revenge it, whom I will importune | God will reuenge it, whom I will importune |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.48 | Gentlemen, importune me no farther, | Gentlemen, importune me no farther, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.i.16 | Importune him for my moneys. Be not ceased | Importune him for my Moneyes, be not ceast |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.iii.13 | And did request me to importune you | And did request me, to importune you |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.iii.17 | Nor needest thou much importune me to that | Nor need'st thou much importune me to that |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.145 | While I, their king, that thither them importune, | While I (their King) that thither them importune |