| 1H4 II.iii.53 | [Lady Percy to Hotspur] thou hast talked / Of ... retires |
| 3H6 II.i.149 | [Richard to Edward and Warwick, of Warwick] Oft have I heard his praises in pursuit, / But ne'er till now his scandal of retire |
| Cor I.vi.1.1 | [stage direction] Enter Cominius, as it were in retire |
| Cor I.vi.3 | [Cominius to his soldiers] We are come off / Like Romans, neither foolish in our stands / Nor cowardly in retire |
| Cym V.iii.40 | [Posthumus to Lord] Then began / A stop i'th' chaser; a retire |
| H5 IV.iii.86 | [Montjoy to King Henry] mind / Thy followers of repentance, that their souls / May make a peaceful and a sweet retire / From off these fields |
| KJ II.i.253 | [King Philip to Hubert, of a French retreat] with a blessed and unvexed retire |
| KJ II.i.326 | [Hubert to Heralds] we might behold ... the onset and retire of both your armies |
| KJ V.v.4 | [Lewis the Dauphin to all] When English measured backward their own ground / In faint retire |
| LLL II.i.220 | [Boyet to Princess, of the King] all his behaviours did make their retire / To the court of his eye |
| Luc.174 | [of Tarquin] honest fear ... / Doth too too oft betake him to retire |
| Luc.573 | [of Lucrece pleading with Tarquin] She conjures him ... / That to his borrowed bed he make retire |
| TC V.iii.53 | [Troilus to Hector, of Mars] Beckoning with fiery truncheon my retire |
| TC V.iv.20.2 | [Diomedes to Troilus] Thou dost miscall retire |
| TC V.viii.15 | [Achilles to Myrmidons] Hark, a retire upon our Grecian part [Q; F retreat] |