| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL II.i.11 | That feelingly persuade me what I am'? | That feelingly perswade me what I am: |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iv.21 | Nay, rather persuade him to hold his hands. | Nay, rather perswade him to hold his hands. |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iii.120 | These wars determine. If I cannot persuade thee | These warres determine: If I cannot perswade thee, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.170 | Hadst thou thy wits, and didst persuade revenge, | Had'st thou thy wits, and did'st perswade Reuenge, |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.275 | persuade Harry of England than a general petition of | perswade Harry of England, then a generall Petition of |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.106 | Let me persuade you to forbear awhile. | Let me perswade you to forbeare a while. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.ii.93 | Courageous Bedford, let us now persuade you. | Couragious Bedford, let vs now perswade you. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.132 | Let me persuade you take a better course. | Let me perswade you take a better course. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.158 | But your discretions better can persuade | But your discretions better can perswade, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.137 | My thoughts that labour to persuade my soul | My thoughts, that labour to perswade my soule, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.176 | Sends me a paper to persuade me patience? | Sends me a Paper to perswade me Patience? |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.vii.33 | I doubt not, I, but we shall soon persuade | I doubt not I, but we shall soone perswade |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.50 | In mind and feature. I persuade me, from her | In minde and feature. I perswade me, from her |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.366 | I'll say it is my duty to persuade, | Ile say it is my duety to perswade, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iii.32 | But either to persuade or threaten me | But either to perswade or threaten me, |
| King Lear | KL II.i.43 | Persuade me to the murder of your lordship; | Perswade me to the murther of your Lordship, |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.211 | Persuade me rather to be slave and sumpter | Perswade me rather to be slaue and sumpter |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.60 | Persuade my heart to this false perjury? | Perswade my heart to this false periurie? |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.ii.185 | And well she can persuade. | And well she can perswade. |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.i.52 | Do you persuade yourself that I respect you? | Do you perswade your selfe that I respect you? |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iii.79 | Persuade this rude wretch willingly to die. | Perswade this rude wretch willingly to die. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.320 | pleasure. If your love do not persuade you to come, let not | pleasure, if your loue doe not perswade you to come, let not |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.1 | Sir Hugh, persuade me not. I will make | SIr Hugh, perswade me not: I will make |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iii.64 | What made me love thee? Let that persuade | What made me loue thee? Let that perswade |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.217 | Yet, I persuade myself, to speak the truth | Yet I perswade my selfe, to speake the truth |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.16 | O balmy breath, that dost almost persuade | Oh Balmy breath, that dost almost perswade |
| Richard III | R3 III.i.33 | Persuade the Queen to send the Duke of York | Perswade the Queene, to send the Duke of Yorke |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.1.61 | Persuade him that he hath been lunatic, | Perswade him that he hath bin Lunaticke, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.ii.124 | We will persuade him, be it possible, | We will perswade him be it possible, |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.240 | Professes to persuade – the King his son's alive, | Professes to perswade) the King his sonne's aliue, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.iii.30 | Cassandra, call my father to persuade. | Cassandra, call my father to perswade. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.i.1 | Cease to persuade, my loving Proteus; | CEase to perswade, my louing Protheus; |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.v.24 | Could I persuade him to become a free man, | Could I perswade him to become a Freeman, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.v.88 | And fluently persuade her to a peace. | aud fluently perswade her to a peace: |