| Cym IV.i.23 | [Cloten alone] out, sword, and to a sore purpose! [also: violent, harsh] |
| H5 I.ii.26 | [King Henry to Canterbury, of the blood shed in a wrongful war] a sore complaint / 'Gainst him whose wrongs give edge unto the swords |
| MV V.i.307 | [Gratiano to all] I'll fear no other thing / So sore as keeping safe Nerissa's ring |