| Ham I.i.96 | [Horatio to Marcellus and Barnardo, of young Fortinbras] Of unimproved mettle hot and full |
| JC I.i.61 | [Flavius to Marullus, of the people] See where their basest mettle be not moved |
| JC I.ii.293 | [Brutus to Cassius, of Casca] He was quick mettle when he went to school |
| JC I.ii.306 | [Cassius alone, of Brutus] Thy honourable mettle may be wrought / From that it is disposed |
| JC IV.ii.24 | [Brutus to Lucilius] hollow men, like horses hot at hand, / Make gallant show and promise of their mettle |
| KL I.i.69 | [Regan to Lear] I am made of that self mettle as my sister |
| Mac I.vii.73 | [Macbeth to Lady Macbeth] thy undaunted mettle should compose / Nothing but males |
| R2 I.ii.23 | [Duchess of Gloucester to John of Gaunt] That mettle ... that fashioned thee [F; QQ mettall] |