| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL I.ii.193 | him to a second, that have so mightily persuaded him | him to a second, that haue so mightilie perswaded him |
| As You Like It | AYL II.i.11 | That feelingly persuade me what I am'? | That feelingly perswade me what I am: |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iv.21 | Nay, rather persuade him to hold his hands. | Nay, rather perswade him to hold his hands. |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.199 | Nay, these are almost thoroughly persuaded, | Nay these are almost thoroughly perswaded: |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iii.120 | These wars determine. If I cannot persuade thee | These warres determine: If I cannot perswade thee, |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.132.1 | Of one persuaded well of. | Of one perswaded well of. |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.170 | Hadst thou thy wits, and didst persuade revenge, | Had'st thou thy wits, and did'st perswade Reuenge, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.300 | you believe it was done in fight, and persuaded us to do | you beleeue it was done in fight, and perswaded vs to doe |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iii.15 | Who then persuaded you to stay at home? | Who then perswaded you to stay at home? |
| Henry V | H5 II.ii.20 | I doubt not that, since we are well persuaded | I doubt not that, since we are well perswaded |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.275 | persuade Harry of England than a general petition of | perswade Harry of England, then a generall Petition of |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iii.60 | How say you, madam? Are you now persuaded | How say you Madame? are you now perswaded, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.106 | Let me persuade you to forbear awhile. | Let me perswade you to forbeare a while. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.ii.93 | Courageous Bedford, let us now persuade you. | Couragious Bedford, let vs now perswade you. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.132 | Let me persuade you take a better course. | Let me perswade you take a better course. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.158 | But your discretions better can persuade | But your discretions better can perswade, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.137 | My thoughts that labour to persuade my soul | My thoughts, that labour to perswade my soule, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.iii.10 | Persuaded him from any further act; | Perswaded him from any further act: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.176 | Sends me a paper to persuade me patience? | Sends me a Paper to perswade me Patience? |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.vii.30 | A wise stout captain, and soon persuaded! | A wise stout Captaine, and soone perswaded. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.vii.33 | I doubt not, I, but we shall soon persuade | I doubt not I, but we shall soone perswade |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.50 | In mind and feature. I persuade me, from her | In minde and feature. I perswade me, from her |
| King Edward III | E3 I.ii.140 | That more persuades than winning oratory? | That more perswads then winning Oratorie. |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.366 | I'll say it is my duty to persuade, | Ile say it is my duety to perswade, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.ii.81 | Had we not been persuaded John our King | Had we not been perswaded Iohn our King, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iii.32 | But either to persuade or threaten me | But either to perswade or threaten me, |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.229 | knowledge, and reason, I should be false persuaded I | |
| King Lear | KL II.i.43 | Persuade me to the murder of your lordship; | Perswade me to the murther of your Lordship, |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.108 | Should he sit here? This act persuades me | Should he sit heere? This act perswades me, |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.211 | Persuade me rather to be slave and sumpter | Perswade me rather to be slaue and sumpter |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.60 | Persuade my heart to this false perjury? | Perswade my heart to this false periurie? |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.31 | it takes him off; it persuades him and disheartens him, | it takes him off; it perswades him, and dis-heartens him; |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.ii.185 | And well she can persuade. | And well she can perswade. |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.i.52 | Do you persuade yourself that I respect you? | Do you perswade your selfe that I respect you? |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iii.79 | Persuade this rude wretch willingly to die. | Perswade this rude wretch willingly to die. |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.93 | How I persuaded, how I prayed, and kneeled, | How I perswaded, how I praid, and kneel'd, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.281 | Of greatest port have all persuaded with him, | Of greatest port haue all perswaded with him, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.320 | pleasure. If your love do not persuade you to come, let not | pleasure, if your loue doe not perswade you to come, let not |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.1 | Sir Hugh, persuade me not. I will make | SIr Hugh, perswade me not: I will make |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iii.64 | What made me love thee? Let that persuade | What made me loue thee? Let that perswade |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.i.41 | But I persuaded them, if they loved Benedick, | But I perswaded them, if they lou'd Benedicke, |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.217 | Yet, I persuade myself, to speak the truth | Yet I perswade my selfe, to speake the truth |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.129 | persuaded I will marry her out of her own love and | perswaded I will marry her / Out of her owne loue & |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.179 | am I yet persuaded to put up in peace what already I | am I yet perswaded to put vp in peace, what already I |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.16 | O balmy breath, that dost almost persuade | Oh Balmy breath, that dost almost perswade |
| Richard II | R2 II.ii.29 | Persuades me it is otherwise. Howe'er it be | Perswades me it is otherwise: how ere it be, |
| Richard II | R2 V.v.35 | Persuades me I was better when a king. | Perswades me, I was better when a King: |
| Richard III | R3 III.i.33 | Persuade the Queen to send the Duke of York | Perswade the Queene, to send the Duke of Yorke |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.1.61 | Persuade him that he hath been lunatic, | Perswade him that he hath bin Lunaticke, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.ii.124 | We will persuade him, be it possible, | We will perswade him be it possible, |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.238 | When he is earthed, hath here almost persuaded – | When he is earth'd, hath here almost perswaded |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.240 | Professes to persuade – the King his son's alive, | Professes to perswade) the King his sonne's aliue, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.iii.19 | O, be persuaded! Do not count it holy | O be perswaded, doe not count it holy, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.iii.30 | Cassandra, call my father to persuade. | Cassandra, call my father to perswade. |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iii.143 | best persuaded of himself, so crammed, as he thinks, | best perswaded of himselfe: so cram'd (as he thinkes) |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.284 | to take up the quarrel. I have persuaded him the youth's | to take vp the quarrell, I haue perswaded him the youths |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.iii.14 | And wrangle with my reason that persuades me | And wrangle with my reason that perswades me |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.i.1 | Cease to persuade, my loving Proteus; | CEase to perswade, my louing Protheus; |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.iv.65 | Could have persuaded me. Now I dare not say | Could haue perswaded me: now I dare not say |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.v.24 | Could I persuade him to become a free man, | Could I perswade him to become a Freeman, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.i.113 | I am persuaded this question, sick between's, | I am perswaded this question sicke between's, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.v.88 | And fluently persuade her to a peace. | aud fluently perswade her to a peace: |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.ii.3 | Have half persuaded her that I am Palamon; | Have halfe perswaded her that I am Palamon; |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.ii.42.1 | Persuades when speaking fails. | Perswades, when speaking failes. |