| 2H4 V.ii.142 | [King Henry V to all] Our coronation done, we will accite ... all our state |
| AC I.iv.41 | [Caesar to Lepidus] It hath been taught us from the primal state / That he which is was wished until he were [i.e. the man who wants power is supported until he gets it] |
| Cor IV.iii.10 | [Volsce to Roman] I have a note from the Volscian state to find you out there |
| H8 I.i.101 | [Norfolk to Buckingham, of Wolsey] The state takes notice of the private difference / Betwixt you and the Cardinal |
| Ham I.i.101 | [Horatio to Barnardo and Marcellus, of Denmark's view of young Fortinbras' actions] As it doth well appear unto our state |
| JC I.ii.159 | [Cassius to Brutus, of Junius Brutus] would have brooked / Th'eternal devil to keep his state in Rome |
| KJ IV.ii.243 | [King John to Hubert] My nobles leave me, and my state is braved |
| KJ IV.ii.8 | [Pembroke to King John] Fresh expectation troubled not the land / With any longed-for change or better state [also: condition] |
| KL I.i.50 | [Lear to his daughters] we will divest us both of ... cares of state |
| KL I.ii.145 | [Edmund to Edgar, of a writer] the effects he writes of succeed unhappily, as of ... divisions in state |
| KL V.i.22 | [Albany to Edmund] the King is come ... / With others whom the rigour of our state / Forced to cry out |
| TC I.iii.100 | [Ulysses to all, of planetary disorders] rend and deracinate / The unity and married calm of states [or: rulers] |
| TC III.iii.196 | [Ulysses to Achilles] The providence that's in a watchful state / Knows almost every grain of Pluto's gold |
| Tem I.ii.70 | [Prospero to Miranda, of Antonio] I ... to him put / The manage of my state |
| Tem I.ii.76 | [Prospero to Miranda] The government I cast upon my brother, / And to my state grew stranger |