| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.iii.11 | Tempt him not so too far. I wish, forbear. | Tempt him not so too farre. I wish forbeare, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.ii.1 | Ah, Luciana, did he tempt thee so? |
Ah Luciana, did he
tempt thee so? |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.ii.13 | With what persuasion did he tempt thy love? |
With what perswasion did he tempt thy loue? |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iii.48 | Satan, avoid! I charge thee, tempt me not! | Sathan auoide, I charge thee tempt me not. |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iv.69 | What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord, | What if it tempt you toward the Floud my Lord? |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.183 | Let the bloat King tempt you again to bed, | Let the blunt King tempt you againe to bed, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.iii.56 | Follow him at foot. Tempt him with speed aboard. | Follow him at foote, / Tempt him with speed aboord: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.ii.10 | You tempt the fury of my three attendants, | You tempt the fury of my three attendants, |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.iii.53 | But wherefore did you so much tempt the heavens? | But wherefore did you so much tempt the Heauens? |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.266 | And tempt the rheumy and unpurged air, | And tempt the Rhewmy, and vnpurged Ayre, |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.36 | Have mind upon your health; tempt me no further. | Haue minde vpon your health: Tempt me no farther. |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.62.1 | What, durst not tempt him? | What? durst not tempt him? |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.349 | Well may I tempt myself to wrong myself, | Well may I tempt my self to wrong my self, |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.84 | Nor tempt the danger of my true defence; | Nor tempt the danger of my true defence; |
| King John | KJ V.vi.38 | And tempt us not to bear above our power! | And tempt vs not to beare aboue our power. |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.218 | Let not my worser spirit tempt me again | Let not my worser Spirit tempt me againe |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.255 | Devils soonest tempt, resembling spirits of light. | Diuels soonest tempt resembling spirits of light. |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.165 | Not she, nor doth she tempt; but it is I | Not she: nor doth she tempt: but it is I, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.211 | Tempt not too much the hatred of my spirit; | Tempt not too much the hatred of my spirit, |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.8 | The devil their virtue tempts, and they tempt heaven. | The Diuell their vertue tempts, and they tempt Heauen. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.ii.35 | Would tempt unto a close exploit of death? | Will tempt vnto a close exploit of Death? |
| Richard III | R3 IV.ii.39 | And will, no doubt, tempt him to anything. | And will (no doubt) tempt him to any thing. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.419 | Ay, if the devil tempt you to do good. | I, if the Diuell tempt you to do good. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.59 | Good gentle youth, tempt not a desperate man. | Good gentle youth, tempt not a desperate man, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.iv.95 | When we will tempt the frailty of our powers, | When we will tempt the frailtie of our powers, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.ii.19 | Sweet honey Greek, tempt me no more to folly. | Sweete hony Greek, tempt me no more to folly. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.iii.34 | And tempt not yet the brushes of the war. | And tempt not yet the brushes of the warre. |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.340 | Can lack persuasion? Do not tempt my misery, | Can lacke perswasion. Do not tempt my misery, |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.i.41 | If thou darest tempt me further, draw thy sword. | If thou dar'st tempt me further, draw thy sword. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.ii.50 | But durst not tempt a minister of honour | But durst not tempt a minister of honour |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.i.73.1 | You tempt him overmuch. | You tempt him ouer-much. |