| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.vii.99 | Possess it, I'll make answer. | Possesse it, Ile make answer: |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xi.21 | I will possess you of that ship and treasure. | I will possesse you of that ship and Treasure. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.186 | If aught possess thee from me, it is dross, | If ought possesse thee from me, it is drosse, |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.ii.111 | Away, my disposition, and possess me | Away my disposition, and possesse me |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.137 | Possess it merely. That it should come to this – | Possesse it meerely. That it should come to this: |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.56 | Nor did the French possess the Salic land | Nor did the French possesse the Salike Land, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.108 | man should possess him with any appearance of fear, | man should possesse him with any appearance of feare; |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.283 | Possess them not with fear; take from them now | Possesse them not with feare: Take from them now |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.26 | And this the regal seat; possess it, York; | And this the Regall Seat: possesse it Yorke, |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.ii.94.1 | Possess your fancy. | Possesse your Fancy. |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.203 | Why seekest thou to possess me with these fears? | Why seek'st thou to possesse me with these feares? |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.ii.100 | For still her cheeks possess the same | For still her cheekes possesse the same, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.383 | O, I am yours, and all that I possess. | O, I am yours, and all that I possesse. |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.202 | Which shall possess them with the heaviest sound | Which shall possesse them with the heauiest sound |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iii.93 | deal with poison. I will possess him with yellowness, for | deale with poyson: I will possesse him with yallownesse, for |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.268 | Possess the people in Messina here | Possesse the people in Messina here, |
| Richard II | R2 II.ii.38 | 'Tis in reversion that I do possess – | 'Tis in reuersion that I do possesse, |
| Richard II | R2 II.iii.14 | The present benefit which I possess; | The present benefit that I possesse; |
| Richard III | R3 IV.i.93 | Go thou to sanctuary, and good thoughts possess thee! | Go thou to Sanctuarie, and good thoughts possesse thee, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.ii.90 | Which you promised I shall possess. | Which you haue promised I shall possesse. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iii.94 | So shall you share all that he doth possess, | So shall you share all that he doth possesse, |
| The Tempest | Tem III.ii.93 | First to possess his books, for without them | First to possesse his Bookes; for without them |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.26 | Our pastimes done, possess a golden slumber, | (Our pastimes done) possesse a Golden slumber, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.i.17 | Unless some fit or frenzy do possess her; | Vnlesse some fit or frenzie do possesse her: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.89 | At ample point all that I did possess, | At ample point, all that I did possesse, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.iv.111 | And by the way possess thee what she is. | And by the way possesse thee what she is. |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iii.133 | Possess us, possess us, tell us something of him. | Possesse vs, possesse vs, tell vs something of him. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.iii.95 | That we, more than his Pirithous, possess | That we, more then his Pirothous, possesse |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.i.58 | Again possess her corpse, and on this stage, | Againe possesse her Corps, and on this Stage |