| 1H6 II.iv.68 | [Richard to Somerset] Hath not thy rose a canker |
| 2H4 II.ii.88 | [Poins to Prince Henry, of the Page] O that this blossom could be kept from cankers! |
| Ham I.iii.39 | [Laertes to Ophelia] The canker galls the infants of the spring |
| MND II.ii.3 | [Titania to her train] Some to kill cankers in the muskrose buds |
| RJ II.iii.26 | [Friar alone] Full soon the canker death eats up that plant |
| Sonn.35.4 | [] loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud |
| Sonn.70.7 | [] For canker vice the sweetest buds doth love |
| Sonn.95.2 | [of shame] like a canker in the fragrant rose |
| Sonn.99.13 | [of a rose] A vengeful canker eat him up to death |
| TG I.i.43 | [Proteus to Valentine] in the sweetest bud / The eating canker dwells |
| TG I.i.46 | [Valentine to Proteus] the most forward bud / Is eaten by the canker ere it blow |
| Ven.656 | [Venus to Adonis, of solicitude] This canker that eats up Love's tender spring |