| 2H6 II.iv.13 | [Gloucester as if to Duchess] The abject people gazing on thy face ... / That erst did follow thy proud chariot wheels |
| H5 V.ii.48 | [Burgundy to King Henry and the French King] The even mead, that erst brought sweetly forth / The freckled cowslip |
| Per I.i.50 | [Pericles to Antiochus] sick men ... / Gripe not at earthly joys as erst they did |
| Sonn.12.6 | [] When lofty trees I see barren of leaves, / Which erst from heat did canopy the herd |
| Tit V.iii.79 | [Marcus to Lucius, of Aeneas] Speak, Rome's dear friend, as erst our ancestor ... did discourse |