| 2H6 III.ii.154 | [Warwick to King, of Christ] that dread King that took our state upon Him [i.e. our human state] |
| 2H6 IV.ix.31 | [King to all] Thus stands my state, 'twixt Cade and York distressed |
| AC I.ii.92 | [Messenger to Antony, of Fulvia and Lucius] the time's state / Made friends of them |
| CE II.i.95 | [Adriana to Luciana, of her husband] he's master of my state |
| H8 II.iv.213 | [Lincoln to King Henry] The question did at first so stagger me - / Bearing a state of mighty moment in't |
| H8 V.i.127 | [King Henry to Cranmer] Know you not / How your state stands i'th' world |
| JC I.iii.71 | [Cassius to Casca] instruments of fear and warning / Unto some monstrous state |
| JC III.i.136 | [Servant to Brutus] Antony ... will follow / The fortunes and affairs of noble Brutus / Thorough the hazards of this untrod state |
| KL II.ii.167 | [disguised Kent alone, reading Cordelia's letter] find time / From this enormous state |
| KL II.iv.144 | [Regan to Lear] You should be ... led / By some discretion that discerns your state / Better than you yourself |
| KL V.i.68 | [Edmund alone] my state / Stands on me to defend |
| R3 IV.iv.416 | [King Richard to Queen Elizabeth] Urge the necessity and state of times |
| RJ III.iii.166 | [Friar to Romeo, before telling him his options] here stands all your state |
| Sonn.124.1 | [] If my dear love were but the child of state |
| Sonn.64.9 | [of sea and shore] When I have seen such interchange of state |
| TC I.iii.191 | [Nestor to all, of Ajax] rails on our state of war |
| TG V.iv.145 | [Duke to Valentine] I ... / Plead a new state in thy unrivalled merit [debated meaning] |
| Tim II.i.13 | [Senator alone, of Timon] No reason / Can sound his state in safety [i.e. and find it safe] |
| Tim II.ii.130 | [Timon to Flavius] You make me marvel wherefore ere this time / Had you not fully laid my state before me |
| Tim IV.iii.246 | [Apemantus to Timon] Best state, contentless, / Hath a distracted and most wretched being |
| TN V.i.61 | [First Officer to Orsino, of Antonio] Here in the streets, desperate of shame and state, / In private brabble did we apprehend him [i.e. regardless of the situation he was in] |
| TNK I.iii.14 | [Emilia to Pirithous] in our terrene state petitions are not / Without gifts understood |
| TS V.i.113 | [Lucentio to Vincentio and Baptista] Bianca's love / Made me exchange my state with Tranio |