| JC I.ii.103 | [Cassius to Brutus, reporting Caesar's challenge] Leap in with me into this angry flood |
| KJ V.iv.53 | [Salisbury to Melun, of the rebel lords] like a bated and retired flood ... run on in obedience / Even to our ocean, to our great King John |
| LC.44 | [of the woman] Of folded schedules had she many a one, / Which she ... gave the flood |
| Luc.653 | [Lucrece to Tarquin] there falls into thy boundless flood / Black lust |
| R3 I.iv.45 | [Clarence to Keeper] I passed ... the melancholy flood [i.e. the River Styx] |
| TNK IV.i.95 | [Wooer to all, of the Gaoler's Daughter] She saw me, and straight sought the flood |