| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.vii.37 | Instruct my daughter how she shall persever | Instruct my daughter how she shall perseuer, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.ii.37 | My love as it begins shall so persever. | My loue as it beginnes, shall so perseuer. |
| As You Like It | AYL V.ii.4 | will you persever to enjoy her? | will you perseuer to enioy her? |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.225 | I'll say as they say and persever so, | Ile say as they say, and perseuer so: |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.i.14 | yet this imperseverant thing loves him in my despite. | yet this imperseuerant Thing loues him in my despight. |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.92 | To do obsequious sorrow. But to persever | To do obsequious Sorrow. But to perseuer |
| King John | KJ II.i.421 | Persever not, but hear me, mighty Kings! | Perseuer not, but heare me mighty kings. |
| King Lear | KL III.v.20 | stuff his suspicion more fully. (Aloud) I will persever in | stuffe his suspition more fully. I will perseuer in |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.93 | Bounty, perseverance, mercy, lowliness, | Bounty, Perseuerance, Mercy, Lowlinesse, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.237 | Ay, do! Persever, counterfeit sad looks, | I, doe, perseuer, counterfeit sad lookes, |
| Pericles | Per IV.vi.103 | Persever in that clear way thou goest, | perseuer in that cleare way thou goest |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.150 | As done. Perseverance, dear my lord, | as done: perseuerance, deere my Lord, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.ii.28 | Ay, and perversely she persevers so. | I, and peruersly, she perseuers so: |