| 1H4 V.iv.72 | [Prince Hal to Hotspur] all the budding honours on thy crest / I'll crop to make a garland for my head |
| 1H6 I.i.80 | [First Messenger to nobles] Cropped are the flower-de-luces in your arms |
| 1H6 II.iv.41 | [Vernon to all] he upon whose side / The fewest roses are cropped from the tree / Shall yield the other |
| E3 III.iii.40 | [Prince Edward to King Edward, of King John] I feared he would have cropped our smaller power |
| Per I.i.142 | [Pericles alone] lest my life be cropped |
| R2 II.i.134 | [John of Gaunt to King Richard] thy unkindness be like crooked age, / To crop at once a too-long withered flower |
| R3 I.ii.247 | [Richard alone, of his killing Edward, son of Henry VI] That cropped the golden prime of this sweet prince |