| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.23 | bleeding in me. I speak not out of weak surmises, | bleeding in me. I speak not out of weake Surmises, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.108 | Hath given me this. Now gather, and surmise. | Hath giuen me this: now gather, and surmise. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 induction.16 | Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures, | Blowne by Surmises, Ielousies, Coniectures; |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.168 | ‘ Let us make head.’ It was your presurmise | Let vs make head: It was your presurmize, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.iii.23 | Conjecture, expectation, and surmise | Coniecture, Expectation, and Surmise |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.347 | 'Tis but surmised whiles thou art standing by, | 'Tis but surmiz'd, whiles thou art standing by, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.ii.44 | These, I can tell ye, and such like surmises | These I can tell yee and such like surmises, |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iii.140 | That function is smothered in surmise, | That Function is smother'd in surmise, |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.180 | To such exsufflicate and blown surmises, | To such exufflicate, and blow'd Surmises, |
| Richard III | R3 II.i.55 | By false intelligence or wrong surmise | By false intelligence, or wrong surmize |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.219 | The thing whereat it trembles by surmise. | The thing whereat it trembles by surmise: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.17 | That gave't surmised shape. Why then, you princes, | That gaue't surmised shape. Why then (you Princes) |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.111 | Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else | Vpon surmizes (all proofes sleeping else, |