| 2H4 V.ii.87 | [Lord Chief Justice to King Henry V] Be you contented, wearing now the garland, ... / To trip the course of law |
| 2H6 III.i.237 | [Cardinal to all, of Gloucester] 'Tis meet he be condemned by course of law |
| AW IV.iii.21 | [Second Lord to First Lord] the common course of all treasons |
| Cym III.v.120 | [Cloten to Pisanio] thou canst not in the course of gratitude but be a diligent follower of mine |
| Cym IV.ii.10 | [disguised Innogen to Belarius, Guiderius, and Arviragus] Stick to your journal course: the breach of custom / Is breach of all |
| H5 I.i.24 | [Canterbury to Ely, of King Henry and his love of the Church] The courses of his youth promised it not |
| H5 I.i.54 | [Canterbury to Ely, of King Henry] his addiction was to courses vain, / His companies ... rude, and shallow |
| H5 II.i.97 | [Pistol to Bardolph] Sword is an oath, and oaths must have their course |
| Ham III.iii.83 | [Hamlet to himself] in our circumstance and course of thought |
| KJ I.i.113 | [Robert Faulconbridge to King John, of the Bastard] he came into the world / Full fourteen weeks before the course of time |
| KJ II.i.580 | [Bastard alone, of commodity] Makes it take head from all indifferency, / From all direction, purpose, course, intent |
| KL I.i.132 | [Lear to Gonerill and Regan] Ourself by monthly course ... shall our abode / Make with you by due turn |
| KL III.vii.100 | [Third Servant to Second Servant, of Regan] If she live long, / And in the end meet the old course of death [i.e. die in the normal way] |
| MM II.i.179 | [Escalus to Elbow, of Froth] because he hath some offences in him that thou wouldst discover ... let him continue in his courses till thou know'st what they are |
| MM III.ii.215 | [disguised Duke to Escalus] it is as dangerous to be aged in any kind of course as it is virtuous to be constant in any undertaking |
| MM IV.ii.173 | [disguised Duke to Provost] You know the course is common |
| MV III.iii.26 | [Antonio to Solanio] The Duke cannot deny the course of law |
| MV IV.i.196 | [Portia as Balthasar to Shylock] That in the course of justice none of us / Should see salvation |
| Oth I.ii.86 | [Brabantio to Othello] To prison, till fit time / Of law and course of direct session / Call thee to answer |
| Oth IV.i.281 | [Iago to Lodovico, of Othello's behaviour] You shall observe him, / And his own courses will denote him so |
| Per IV.i.38 | [Dionyza to Marina, of Pericles] He will ... / Blame both my lord and me that we have taken / No care to your best courses |
| R2 I.ii.14 | [Duchess of Gloucester to John of Gaunt, of Edward's seven sons] Some of those seven are dried by nature's course |
| R3 I.iv.190 | [Clarence to Murderers] who pronounced / The bitter sentence of poor Clarence' death / Before I be convict by course of law? |
| R3 IV.iv.105 | [Queen Margaret to Queen Elizabeth] Thus hath the course of justice wheeled about |
| Sonn.19.11 | [of Time] Him in thy course untainted do allow / For beauty's pattern to succeeding men |
| TC I.iii.87 | [Ulysses to all, of the heavens] Observe ... / Insisture, course, proportion, season, form |
| TC I.iii.9 | [Agamemnon to all, of a pine tree] knots ... divert his grain / Tortive and errant from his course of growth |
| Tim III.iii.41 | [Servant alone, of the way life is affecting Timon] this is all a liberal course allows |
| WT III.ii.6 | [Leontes to all] we so openly / Proceed in justice, which shall have due course, / Even to the guilt or the purgation |