| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.vii.44 | Let us assay our plot, which, if it speed, | Let vs assay our plot, which if it speed, |
| As You Like It | AYL I.iii.127 | But, cousin, what if we assayed to steal | But Cosen, what if we assaid to steale |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.97 | Or lose my labour in assaying it. | Or loose my labour in assaying it. |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iii.38 | I have assailed her with musics, but she vouchsafes | I haue assayl'd her with Musickes, but she vouchsafes |
| Hamlet | Ham II.i.65 | With windlasses and with assays of bias, | With windlesses, and with assaies of Bias, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.71 | To give th' assay of arms against your majesty. | To giue th'assay of Armes against your Maiestie. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.14.2 | Did you assay him | Did you assay him |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iii.69 | Art more engaged! Help, angels! Make assay. | Art more ingag'd: Helpe Angels, make assay: |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.151 | 'Twere better not assayed. Therefore this project | 'Twere better not assaid; therefore this Proiect |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.iv.33 | I will assay thee, and defend thyself. | I will assay thee: so defend thy selfe. |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.151 | Galling the gleaned land with hot assays, | Galling the gleaned Land with hot Assayes, |
| 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.v.8 | The rebels have assayed to win the Tower. | The Rebels haue assay'd to win the Tower. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.65 | Let us assail the family of York. | Let vs assayle the Family of Yorke. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.118 | I would assay, proud Queen, to make thee blush. | I would assay, prowd Queene, to make thee blush. |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.69 | That unassailable holds on his rank, | That vnassayleable holds on his Ranke, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iv.12 | O hapless fortune! Let us yet assay | O haplesse fortune, let vs yet assay, |
| 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. |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.143 | The great assay of art; but at his touch, | The great assay of Art. But at his touch, |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.ii.180 | To the strict deputy, bid herself assay him. | To the strict deputie: bid her selfe assay him, |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.iv.76.2 | Assay the power you have. | Assay the powre you haue. |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.164 | purpose to corrupt her; only he hath made an assay of | purpose to corrupt her; onely he hath made an assay of |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.i.24 | manner assay me? Why, he hath not been thrice in my | manner assay me? why, hee hath not beene thrice / In my |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.18 | By no assay of reason. 'Tis a pageant | By no assay of reason. 'Tis a Pageant |
| Othello | Oth II.i.119 | Come on, assay. There's one gone to the harbour? | Come on, assay. / There's one gone to the Harbour? |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.201 | Assays to lead the way. Zounds, if I stir, | Assaies to leade the way. If I once stir, |
| Pericles | Per epilogue.V.iii.4 | Although assailed with fortune fierce and keen, | Although assayl'de with Fortune fierce and keene. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.405 | Let us make the assay upon him. If he | Let vs make the assay vpon him, if he |
| 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 |