| 2H6 I.ii.46 | [Gloucester to Duchess] Hast thou not worldly pleasure at command / Above the reach or compass of thy thought? |
| 3H6 IV.iii.48 | [Edward to Warwick] Though Fortune's malice overthrow my state, / My mind exceeds the compass of her wheel |
| CE III.i.87 | [Balthasar to Antipholus of Ephesus] you ... draw within the compass of suspect / The unviolated honour of your wife |
| E3 V.i.140 | [Salisbury to King Edward, of Prince Edward] like to a slender point / Within the compass of the horizon |
| H8 I.i.36 | [Norfolk to Buckingham, of the French and English knights] they did perform / Beyond thought's compass |
| H8 III.ii.340 | [Suffolk to Wolsey] all those things you have done of late ... / Fall into th'compass of a praemunire |
| Ham III.ii.375 | [Hamlet to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern] from my lowest note to the top of my compass |
| JC V.iii.25 | [Cassius to himself] My life is run his compass |
| Oth III.iv.21 | [Clown to Desdemona, of taking a message to Cassio] To do this is within the compass of man's wit |
| Oth IV.ii.218 | [Roderigo to Iago, of Iago's plan] Is it within reason and compass? |
| R3 I.iii.283 | [Queen Margaret to Buckingham] thou [art not] within the compass of my curse |
| RJ IV.i.47 | [Friar to Juliet, of her grief] It strains me past the compass of my wits |
| Sonn.116.10 | [of time] rosy lips and cheeks / Within his bending sickle's compass come |
| Tit V.i.126 | [Aaron to Lucius, of cursing the days on which Aaron has not done some evil] Few come within the compass of my curse |