| AC III.vii.47 | [Enobarbus to Antony] you ... / Give up yourself merely to chance and hazard |
| AC III.vii.8 | [Enobarbus to himself] If we should serve with horse and mares together, / The horse were merely lost |
| AC III.xiii.62.1 | [Cleopatra to Thidias] Mine honour was not yielded, / But conquered merely |
| AW IV.iii.20 | [Second Lord to First Lord, responding to ‘what things are we!’] Merely our own traitors |
| AYL III.ii.383 | [Rosalind as Ganymede to Orlando] Love is merely a madness |
| AYL III.ii.402 | [Rosalind as Ganymede to Orlando] to live in a nook merely monastic |
| Cor III.i.303 | [Brutus to Sicinius, responding to the latter's ‘This is clean kam’] Merely awry |
| Ham I.ii.137 | [Hamlet alone, of the world] Things rank and gross in nature / Possess it merely |
| Ham II.ii.257 | [Guildenstern to Hamlet] the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream |
| JC I.ii.39 | [Brutus to Cassius] if I have veiled my look, / I turn the trouble of my countenance / Merely upon myself |
| LC.316 | [of the man] Thus merely with the garment of a grace, / The naked and concealed fiend he covered |
| MA II.iii.213 | [Don Pedro aside to Leonato, of Beatrice meeting Benedick] that's the scene that I would see, which will be merely a dumb-show |
| MM III.i.11 | [disguised Duke to Claudio] Merely, thou art death's fool |
| MM V.i.451.1 | [Duke to Mariana] Thoughts are no subjects, / Intents but merely thoughts. Mariana: Merely, my lord |
| MV IV.i.336 | [Portia as Balthasar to all, of Shylock] He shall have merely justice and his bond |
| R2 II.i.243 | [Northumberland to Ross, of King Richard's flatterers] they will inform / Merely in hate 'gainst any of us all |
| Tem I.i.54 | [Antonio to all] We are merely cheated of our lives by drunkards |