| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.23 | May be a coward's, whose ministers would prevail | May be a Cowards, whose Ministers would preuaile |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iv.6 | especially his mother, may prevail with him. But I say | especially his Mother, may preuaile with him. But I say, |
| Henry V | H5 III.ii.14 | If wishes would prevail with me, | If wishes would preuayle with me, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.v.9 | Heavens, can you suffer hell so to prevail? | Heauens, can you suffer Hell so to preuayle? |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.i.56 | Sleeping or waking must I still prevail, | Sleeping or waking, must I still preuayle, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.ii.49 | Could not prevail with all their oratory, | Could not preuayle with all their Oratorie, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.v.98 | Thy grave admonishments prevail with me. | Thy graue admonishments preuayle with me: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.67 | I would prevail, if prayers might prevail, | I would preuayle, if Prayers might preuayle, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.23 | God forbid any malice should prevail | God forbid any Malice should preuayle, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.164 | Well, seeing gentle words will not prevail, | Well, seeing gentle words will not preuayle, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.vi.7 | But if an humble prayer may prevail, | But, if an humble prayer may preuaile, |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.i.143 | They shall no more prevail than we give way to. | They shall no more preuaile, then we giue way too: |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.ii.54 | Let me upon my knee prevail in this. | Let me vpon my knee, preuaile in this. |
| King Edward III | E3 I.ii.10 | Thou doest not tell him, if he here prevail, | Thou doest not tell him if he heere preuaile, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.111 | But were it not, yet ere he should prevail, | But were it not, yet ere he should preuaile, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.ii.35 | But 'tis a rightful quarrel must prevail: | But tis a rightfull quarrell must preuaile, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.107 | May either of us prosper and prevail, | May eyther of vs prosper and preuaile, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.147 | He against whom you fight, if he prevail, | He against whome you fight if hee preuaile, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.ii.41 | Thinking belike he soonest should prevail, | Thinking belike he soonest should preuaile, |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.53 | Philippe, prevail: we yield to thy request. | Phillip preuaile, we yeeld to thy request, |
| King John | KJ I.i.104 | Where how he did prevail I shame to speak – | Where how he did preuaile, I shame to speake: |
| Pericles | Per V.i.259.2 | You shall prevail, | You shall preuaile |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.126 | If we prevail, their heads shall pay for it. | If we preuaile, their heads shall pay for it. |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.190 | Did York's dread curse prevail so much with heaven | Did Yorkes dread Curse preuaile so much with Heauen, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.153 | prevail with me. | preuaile with me. |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.ii.35 | world can more prevail in man's commendation with | world, can more preuaile in mans commendation with |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.202 | Prevail not, go and see. If you can bring | Preuaile not, go and see: if you can bring |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.660 | Wherein my hope is I shall so prevail | Wherein, my hope is, I shall so preuaile, |