| 2H4 I.iii.23 | [Lord Bardolph to Hastings] Conjecture, expectation, and surmise / Of aids incertain should not be admitted |
| E3 III.ii.44 | [Woman to all] such like surmises / Strike many Frenchmen cold unto the heart |
| Luc.83 | [] that praise which Collatine doth owe / Enchanted Tarquin answers with surmise |
| Mac I.iii.140 | [Macbeth to himself] My thought ... / Shakes so my single state of man / That function is smothered in surmise [i.e. my imaginings take away my power to act] |
| Tit II.iii.219 | [Quintus to Martius] my compassionate heart / Will not permit mine eyes once to behold / The thing whereat it trembles by surmise |