| 1H4 V.iv.89 | [Prince Hal to dead Hotspur] When that this body did contain a spirit, / A kingdom for it was too small a bound |
| CE II.i.17 | [Luciana to Adriana] There's nothing situate under heaven's eye / But hath his bound in earth, in sea, in sky |
| Ham IV.vii.127 | [Claudius to Laertes] Revenge should have no bounds |
| KJ II.i.444 | [Hubert to King John and King Philip, of marriage between Lewis the Dauphin and Blanche] And two such shores to two such streams made one, / Two such controlling bounds, shall you be |
| KJ III.i.23 | [Constance to Salisbury, of his tears] Like a proud river peering o'er his bounds |
| KJ V.iv.55 | [Salisbury to Melun, of the once rebel lords as a river] Stoop low within those bounds we have o'erlooked |
| R3 IV.i.20 | [Queen Elizabeth to Brakenbury, of Richard and the Princes] Hath he set bounds between their love and me? |
| Tem I.ii.97 | [Prospero to Miranda, of his state of mind] A confidence sans bound |
| Tem II.i.155 | [Gonzalo to Alonso, of the imaginary commonwealth] Contract ... bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none |
| Tim I.i.25 | [Poet to Painter, of his poetic inspiration] Our gentle flame ... like the current flies / Each bound it chafes |
| TN I.iv.21 | [Orsino to Viola as Cesario] Be clamorous and leap all civil bounds [i.e. disregard all normal courtesies] |
| TNK I.i.84 | [Second Queen to Hippolyta, of Theseus] shrunk thee into / The bound thou wast o'erflowing |