| 1H4 II.iv.482 | [Falstaff to Prince Hal] If I become not a cart as well as another man, a plague on my bringing up |
| 2H4 II.i.190 | [Falstaff to Gower, of the former's manners] if they become me not, he was a fool that taught them me |
| 2H4 V.ii.50 | [King Henry V to his brothers] be sad ... / For, by my faith, it very well becomes you |
| 2H6 V.i.96 | [York to King] That head of thine doth not become a crown |
| AC I.i.49 | [Antony to and of Cleopatra] Whom everything becomes - to chide, to laugh, / To weep |
| AC II.ii.2 | [Lepidus to Enobarbus] 'tis a worthy deed, / And shall become you well, to entreat your captain / To soft and gentle speech |
| AC II.iv.5.1 | [Lepidus to Maecenas and Agrippa] your soldier's dress, / Which will become you both |
| AYL III.ii.236 | [Rosalind as Ganymede to Celia as Aliena, of Orlando lying on the ground] Though it be pity to see such a sight, it well becomes the ground |
| AYL III.v.114 | [Phebe to Silvius, of Rosalind as Ganymede] his pride becomes him |
| Cor I.iii.40 | [Volumnia to Virgilia, of blood] It more becomes a man / Than gilt his trophy |
| Cor III.i.159 | [Coriolanus to Brutus and Sicinius] Your dishonour / Mangles true judgement, and bereaves the state / Of that integrity which should become't |
| Cor III.i.59 | [Cominius to all] This paltering / Becomes not Rome, nor has Coriolanus / Deserved this so dishonoured rub [or: sense 1] |
| Cym IV.iv.15 | [Guiderius to Belarius] a doubt / In such a time nothing becoming you, / Nor satisfying us |
| Cym V.v.407 | [Cymbeline to all, of the unknown soldier] He would have well becomed this place, and graced / The thankings of a king |
| E3 II.i.281 | [King Edward to Warwick] Like as the wind doth beautify a sail, / And as a sail becomes the unseen wind |
| E3 II.i.396 | [Warwick to Countess] The lion doth become his bloody jaws, / And grace his foragement by being mild / When vassal fear lies trembling at his feet |
| E3 IV.vi.60 | [Audley to Esquire, of Prince Edward] in the crimson bravery of my blood / I may become him with saluting him |
| H5 I.ii.8.1 | [Canterbury to King Henry] God and His angels guard your sacred throne, / And make you long become it! |
| H5 III.i.3 | [King Henry to all] there's nothing so becomes a man / As modest stillness and humility |
| H5 III.iii.6 | [King Henry to all] I am a soldier, / A name that in my thoughts becomes me best |
| H5 IV.ii.38 | [Grandpr?š to all, of the English] Yon island carrions, desperate of their bones, / Ill-favouredly become the morning field |
| H5 V.ii.58 | [Burgundy to all] [we] Have lost ... / The sciences that should become our country |
| H8 V.iii.133 | [King Henry to Cranmer, of any councillor] he had better starve / Than but once think this place becomes thee not |
| Ham IV.v.173 | [Ophelia to Laertes] O, how the wheel becomes it! |
| KJ II.i.141 | [Blanche to and of Austria] well did he become that lion's robe / That did disrobe the lion of that robe! |
| KJ III.i.50 | [Constance to Arthur, if he were ugly] nor thou / Become thy great birth, nor deserve a crown |
| KJ V.i.55 | [Bastard to King John] Away, and glister like the god of war / When he intendeth to become the field |
| KL II.iv.148 | [Lear to Regan, of his kneeling] Do you but mark how this becomes the house |
| KL IV.iii.24.1 | [Gentleman to disguised Kent, of Cordelia] Sorrow would be a rarity most beloved / If all could so become it |
| LC.111 | [of the man] Whether the horse by him became his deed, / Or he his manage, by th'well doing steed |
| LLL II.i.46 | [Maria to Princess, of Longaville] Nothing becomes him ill that he would well |
| Mac I.ii.44 | [Duncan to Captain] So well thy words become thee as thy wounds |
| Mac I.iv.9 | [Malcolm to Duncan, of Cawdor] Nothing in his life / Became him like the leaving it |
| MM II.ii.62 | [Isabella to Angelo] No ceremony that to great ones longs, / Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword ... / Become them with one half so good a grace / As mercy does |
| MM III.ii.245 | [disguised Duke to Escalus, of Angelo] If his own life answer the straitness of his proceeding, it shall become him well |
| MV II.viii.45 | [Salerio to Solanio, reporting Antonio's words to Bassanio] employ your chiefest thoughts / To courtship and such fair ostents of love / As shall conveniently become you |
| MV IV.i.185 | [Portia as Balthasar to Shylock, of mercy] it becomes / The throned monarch better than his crown |
| R3 III.vii.168 | [Richard to all] The royal tree hath left us royal fruit, / Which, mellowed by the stealing hours of time, / Will well become the seat of majesty |
| Sonn.132.6 | []">not the morning sun of heaven / Better becomes the grey cheeks of th'East ... / As those two mourning eyes become thy face |
| Tem III.ii.105 | [Caliban to Stephano, of Miranda] She will become thy bed |
| Tim V.i.193 | [First Senator to Timon] These words become your lips as they pass through them |
| TN I.iii.96 | [Sir Andrew to Sir Toby, of his hair] it becomes me well enough, does't not? |
| TN II.v.169 | [Malvolio, reading the letter supposedly from Olivia] thy smiles become thee well |
| TNK IV.ii.31 | [Emilia alone, of Palamon's deficiencies] Yet these that we count errors may become him |
| TNK V.iii.50 | [Emilia alone, of Palamon] Melancholy / Becomes him nobly |
| TS II.i.252 | [Petruchio to Katherina] Did ever Dian so become a grove / As Kate this chamber with her princely gait? |
| TS IV.v.32 | [Petruchio to Katherina, of Vincentio imagined as a woman] What stars do spangle heaven with such beauty / As those two eyes become that heavenly face? |
| TS V.ii.120 | [Petruchio to Katherina] that cap of yours becomes you not |
| WT I.ii.282 | [Camillo to Leontes, of the latter's suspicions] You never spoke what did become you less / Than this |
| WT IV.iv.393 | [disguised Polixenes to Florizel] Methinks a father / Is at the nuptial of his son a guest / That best becomes the table |