| 1H4 IV.i.64 | [Worcester to Hotspur] It will be thought ... / That wisdom, loyalty, and mere dislike / Of our proceedings kept the Earl from hence |
| 1H4 V.i.140 | [Falstaff alone] Honour is a mere scutcheon [or: modern sense] |
| 1H6 IV.vii.54 | [Lucy to Charles] Submission, Dauphin? 'Tis a mere French word |
| 1H6 V.iv.125 | [Winchester to the French] in regard King Henry gives consent, / Of mere compassion and of lenity, / To ease your country of distressful war |
| 2H4 IV.i.138 | [Westmorland to the rebel leaders, of what he has been saying] this is mere digression from my purpose |
| 2H6 III.ii.250 | [Salisbury to all, of the Commons wanting Suffolk banished] mere instinct of love and loyalty ... / Makes them thus forward in his banishment |
| AC III.xiii.43 | [Enobarbus to himself] The loyalty well held to fools does make / Our faith mere folly |
| AYL II.i.61 | [First Lord to Duke Senior, of Jaques] swearing that we / Are mere usurpers |
| AYL II.vii.166 | [Jaques to all] last Scene of all, ... / Is second childishness, and mere oblivion |
| AYL II.vii.182 | [Amiens singing] Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly |
| CE V.i.239 | [Antipholus of Ephesus to Duke, of Pinch] A mere anatomy, a mountebank |
| Cor IV.v.85 | [Coriolanus to Aufidius] in mere spite, / To be full quit of those my banishers, / Stand I before thee here |
| Cym IV.ii.92 | [Cloten to Guiderius] to thy mere confusion, thou shalt know I am son to th'queen |
| H8 III.i.112 | [Wolsey to Queen Katherine, of her response] Madam, this is a mere distraction |
| H8 III.ii.324 | [Suffolk to Wolsey] out of mere ambition you have caused / Your holy hat to be stamped on the King's coin |
| H8 III.ii.329 | [Surrey to Wolsey] you have sent innumerable substance ... / To furnish Rome, and to prepare the ways / You have for dignities, to the mere undoing / Of all the kingdom |
| H8 IV.i.59.1 | [Third Gentleman to First and Second Gentlemen, of the crowds] I am stifled / With the mere rankness of their joy |
| Ham IV.v.87 | [Claudius to Gertrude, of Ophelia] Divided from herself and her fair judgement, / Without the which we are pictures or mere beasts |
| Ham V.i.280.2 | [Gertrude to all] This is mere madness |
| JC I.ii.234 | [Casca to Brutus and Cassius, of how Caesar was offered the crown] it was mere foolery |
| KL II.iv.85 | [Lear to Gloucester, of Regan's excuses] Mere fetches |
| LLL I.i.146 | [King to Berowne, of the Princess] She must lie here on mere necessity |
| LLL I.ii.33 | [Mote to himself, of Armado] He speaks the mere contrary |
| Mac II.iii.92 | [Macbeth to all] The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees / Is left this vault to brag of |
| Mac IV.iii.152 | Malcolm to Macduff, of the English king] All swollen and ulcerous, pitiful to the eye, / The mere despair of surgery, he cures |
| MM III.i.30 | [disguised Duke to Claudio] thine own bowels ... / The mere effusion of thy proper loins |
| MV III.ii.262 | [Bassanio to Portia] I have ... / Engaged my friend to his mere enemy |
| MW IV.v.59 | [Bardolph to Host] Out, alas, sir, cozenage, mere cozenage! |
| Oth I.i.26 | [Iago to Roderigo, of Cassio] Mere prattle, without practice / Is all his soldiership |
| Oth I.iii.383 | [Iago alone, of his suspicion about Othello] I know not if't be true / But I, for mere suspicion in that kind, / Will do as if for surety |
| Oth II.i.232 | [Iago to Roderigo, of Cassio] no further conscionable than in putting on the mere form of civil and humane seeming |
| Oth II.ii.3 | [Herald to all] the mere perdition of the Turkish fleet |
| TC I.iii.111 | [Ulysses to all] Each thing meets / In mere oppugnancy |
| TC I.iii.287 | [Agamemnon to all] may that soldier a mere recreant prove / That means not, hath not, or is not in love |
| TC IV.iv.103 | [Troilus to Cressida] I with great truth catch mere simplicity |
| Tim I.i.170 | [Timon to Jeweller, of the value of a jewel] A mere satiety of commendations |
| Tim IV.iii.232 | [Apemantus to Timon, of creatures] whose bare unhoused trunks, / To the conflicting elements exposed, / Answer mere nature [i.e. as it really is] |
| Tim IV.iii.378 | [Timon to Apemantus] I am sick of this false world, and will love naught / But even the mere necessities upon't [i.e. the absolute requirements] |
| Tim IV.iii.402 | [First Bandit to other Bandits] The mere want of gold |
| Tim V.iv.14 | [First Senator to Timon] When thy first griefs were but a mere conceit |
| TN II.i.9 | [Sebastian to Antonio] my determinate voyage is mere extravagancy |
| TNK I.ii.42.1 | [Arcite to Palamon] here were to be strangers, and / Such things to be, mere monsters |
| TNK II.i.112 | [Arcite to Palamon] I see two comforts rising, two mere blessings, / If the gods please |
| TNK IV.ii.26 | [Emilia alone, of Arcite] Palamon / Is but his foil; to him, a mere dull shadow |
| TNK IV.ii.44 | [Emilia alone, of Palamon] Lie there, Arcite; / Thou art a changeling to him, a mere gypsy |
| TNK IV.ii.52 | [Emilia alone] What a mere child is fancy |
| WT II.iii.2 | [Leontes alone] It is but weakness / To bear the matter thus, mere weakness |
| WT III.ii.139 | [Leontes to all] There is no truth at all i'th' oracle! / The sessions shall proceed: this is mere falsehood |
| WT III.ii.142 | [Servant to Leontes] The Prince your son, with mere conceit and fear / Of the Queen's speed, is gone |