| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.114 | But he assails, and our virginity, though valiant, | But he assailes, and our virginitie though valiant, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.iv.56 | Leave thy lascivious wassails. When thou once | Leaue thy lasciuious Vassailes. When thou once |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.vi.56.1 | To make my heart her vassal. | To make my heart her vassaile. |
| As You Like It | AYL I.iii.112.1 | And never stir assailants. | And neuer stir assailants. |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.ii.9 | To call them woollen vassals, things created | To call them Wollen Vassailes, things created |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.v.122 | What lady would you choose to assail? | What Lady would you chuse to assaile? |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iii.38 | I have assailed her with musics, but she vouchsafes | I haue assayl'd her with Musickes, but she vouchsafes |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.113 | Than I to your highness, who being born your vassal, | Then I to your Highnesse, who being born your vassaile |
| Hamlet | Ham I.i.31 | And let us once again assail your ears, | And let vs once againe assaile your eares, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iv.9 | Keeps wassail, and the swaggering upspring reels. | Keepes wassels and the swaggering vpspring reeles, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.160 | A wassail candle, my lord, all tallow – if I did | A Wassell-Candle, my Lord; all Tallow: if I did |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.176 | And make me as the poorest vassal is | And make me, as the poorest Vassaile is, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.148 | money, be assailed by robbers, and die in many irreconciled | Money, be assayled by Robbers, and dye in many irreconcil'd |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.iv.16 | To beat assailing death from his weak legions; | To beate assayling death from his weake Regions, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.vii.10 | Tendering my ruin and assailed of none, | Tendring my ruine, and assayl'd of none, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.165 | Assail them with the army of the King. | Assaile them with the Army of the King. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.ii.18 | It grieves my soul to leave thee unassailed. | It greeues my soule to leaue theee vnassail'd. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.65 | Let us assail the family of York. | Let vs assayle the Family of Yorke. |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.69 | That unassailable holds on his rank, | That vnassayleable holds on his Ranke, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.ii.41 | Am as a kneeling vassal, that observes | Am as a kneeling vassaile that obserues, |
| King John | KJ III.ii.6 | My mother is assailed in our tent, | My Mother is assayled in our Tent, |
| King John | KJ V.vii.9 | Of that fell poison which assaileth him. | Of that fell poison which assayleth him. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.318 | At wakes and wassails, meetings, markets, fairs; | At Wakes, and Wassels, Meetings, Markets, Faires. |
| Macbeth | Mac I.vii.64 | Will I with wine and wassail so convince | Will I with Wine, and Wassell, so conuince, |
| Macbeth | Mac III.ii.39 | There's comfort yet! They are assailable. | There's comfort yet, they are assaileable, |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.383 | That I, your vassal, have employed and pained | That I, your vassaile, haue imploid, and pain'd |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.198.1 | When violence assails us. | When violence assailes vs. |
| Pericles | Per epilogue.V.iii.4 | Although assailed with fortune fierce and keen, | Although assayl'de with Fortune fierce and keene. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.213 | Nor bide th' encounter of assailing eyes, | Nor bid th'incounter of assailing eyes. |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.374.1 | And make a vassal of him. | And make a vassaile of him. |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.iii.54 | her, board her, woo her, assail her. | her, boord her, woe her, assayle her. |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.220 | tuck; be yare in thy preparation; for thy assailant is | tucke, be yare in thy preparation, for thy assaylant is |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.84 | To be his subject's vassal, and induce | To be his subjects vassaile, and induce |