| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xv.19 | I here importune death awhile, until | I heere importune death a-while, vntill |
| As You Like It | AYL I.i.87 | importunes access to you. | importunes accesse to you. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.i.127 | After his brother, and importuned me | After his brother; and importun'd me |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.i.2 | And since I have not much importuned you; | And since I haue not much importun'd you, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.i.53 | You hear how he importunes me. The chain! | You heare how he importunes me, the Chaine. |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.249 | The queen, sir, very oft importuned me | The Queene (Sir) very oft importun'd me |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iii.110 | My lord, he hath importuned me with love | My Lord, he hath importun'd me with loue, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.371 | My mother and the peers importune you | My mother and the Peeres importune you, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iii.1 | I wonder, Villiers, thou shouldst importune me | I wounder Villiers, thou shouldest importune me |
| King Lear | KL III.iv.154 | Importune him once more to go, my lord. | Importune him once more to go my Lord, |
| King Lear | KL IV.iv.26 | My mourning and importuned tears hath pitied. | My mourning, and important teares hath pittied: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.32 | Importunes personal conference with his grace. | Importunes personall conference with his grace. |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.i.56 | As time and our concernings shall importune, | As time, and our concernings shall importune, |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.430 | Against all sense you do importune her. | Against all sence you doe importune her, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.206 | Have you importuned her to such a purpose? | Haue you importun'd her to such a purpose? |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.309 | Confess yourself freely to her; importune her help to | Confesse your selfe freely to her: Importune her helpe to |
| Othello | Oth III.iv.104 | And lo, the happiness! Go, and importune her. | And loe the happinesse: go, and importune her. |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.114 | (aside) Now he importunes him to tell it o'er. | Now he importunes him / To tell it o're: |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.14 | God will revenge it, whom I will importune | God will reuenge it, whom I will importune |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.145 | Have you importuned him by any means? | Haue you importun'd him by any meanes? |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.48 | Gentlemen, importune me no farther, | Gentlemen, importune me no farther, |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.130 | You were kneeled to and importuned otherwise | You were kneel'd too, & importun'd otherwise |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.i.16 | Importune him for my moneys. Be not ceased | Importune him for my Moneyes, be not ceast |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.iii.13 | And did request me to importune you | And did request me, to importune you |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.iii.17 | Nor needest thou much importune me to that | Nor need'st thou much importune me to that |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.145 | While I, their king, that thither them importune, | While I (their King) that thither them importune |