| 2H6 V.i.120 | [York to Queen] The sons of York ... / Shall be their father's bail, and bane to those / That for my surety will refuse the boys |
| Cym V.iii.58 | [Posthumus to Lord] Two boys, an old man twice a boy ... was the Romans' bane |
| Mac V.iii.59 | [Macbeth to Doctor] I will not be afraid of death and bane / Till Birnan forest come to Dunsinane |
| TC IV.ii.92 | [Pandarus to Cressida, of Troilus' reaction to her being exchanged] 'twill be his bane, he cannot bear it |
| Tit V.iii.72 | [Marcus to all, of the need for unity] Lest Rome herself be bane unto herself [also: sense 3] |
| Ven.372 | [Venus to Adonis] nothing but my body's bane would cure thee |