| AYL I.iii.6 | [Celia to Rosalind] Come, lame me with reasons |
| LLL V.i.2 | [Nathaniel to Holofernes] Your reasons at dinner have been sharp and sententious |
| MM I.ii.184 | [Claudio to Lucio, of Isabella] she hath prosperous art / When she will play with reason and discourse |
| R3 IV.iv.361 | [King Richard to Queen Elizabeth] Your reasons are too shallow and too quick |
| Sonn.151.8 | [] flesh stays no farther reason, / But rising at thy name doth point out thee |