| 1H4 I.ii.154 | [Falstaff to Prince Hal] the poor abuses of the time want countenance |
| 1H4 I.ii.199 | [Prince Hal alone, of himself as the sun] Being wanted, he may be more wondered at |
| 1H4 I.iii.130 | [Hotspur to Northumberland and Worcester, of Mortimer] let my soul / Want mercy if I do not join with him [i.e. I'll be damned if I don't join with him] |
| 1H4 V.i.79 | [King Henry to Worcester] never yet did insurrection want / Such water-colours to impaint his cause |
| 1H6 I.i.116 | [Third Messenger to all, of Talbot] He wanted pikes to set before his archers |
| 1H6 I.i.143 | [Bedford to all, of Talbot] such a worthy leader, wanting aid, / Unto his dastard foemen is betrayed |
| 1H6 I.i.75 | [First Messenger to all, of the generals] One would have lingering wars with little cost; / Another would fly swift, but wanteth wings |
| 1H6 I.i.82 | [Exeter to all, of the news from France] Were our tears wanting to this funeral, / These tidings would call forth her flowing tides |
| 1H6 I.ii.9 | [Alen??on to all, of the English] They want their porridge and their fat bull-beeves |
| 1H6 I.iv.86 | [Talbot to himself] Heaven, be thou gracious to none alive / If Salisbury wants mercy at thy hands! |
| 1H6 V.iv.46 | [Pucelle to the English] Because you want the grace that others have, / You judge it straight a thing impossible / To compass wonders but by help of devils |
| 2H4 IV.iv.8 | [King Henry IV to all] we want a little personal strength |
| 2H4 V.iii.28 | [Davy to guests] What you want in meat, we'll have in drink |
| 2H4 V.iii.54 | [Shallow to Bardolph] If thou wantest anything and wilt not call, beshrew thy heart |
| 2H6 III.i.168 | [Gloucester to all] I shall not want false witness to condemn me |
| 2H6 III.ii.126 | [Warwick to King] The commons, like an angry hive of bees / That want their leader |
| 2H6 V.i.171 | [King to Salisbury] Why art thou old and wantest experience? |
| 2H6 V.ii.22 | [Clifford to York] Nor should thy prowess want praise and esteem, / But that 'tis shown ignobly and in treason |
| 3H6 II.vi.102 | [Edward to Warwick] never will I undertake the thing / Wherein thy counsel and consent is wanting |
| 3H6 IV.i.121 | [George to Edward] though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage / I may not prove inferior to yourself |
| 3H6 IV.vi.57 | [Warwick to George, of the succession] therein Clarence shall not want his part |
| AC II.ii.72 | [Antony to Caesar, of Fulvia] her impatience--which not wanted / Shrewdness of policy too |
| AC II.vi.11 | [Pompey to all] I do not know / Wherefore my father should revengers want, / Having a son and friends |
| AC IV.xiv.53 | [Antony alone] Dido and her Aeneas shall want troops |
| AC V.ii.97 | [Cleopatra to Dolabella] Nature wants stuff / To vie strange forms with fancy |
| AW I.i.70.2 | [Lafew to Countess, of Bertram at court] He cannot want the best / That shall attend his love [unclear meaning: ?he will not lack the best experience there if he shows a loving behaviour] |
| AW II.iv.4 | [Clown to Helena, of her mother] she's very well and wants nothing i'th'world |
| AYL III.ii.23 | [Corin to Touchstone] he that wants money, means, and content is without three good friends |
| AYL III.iii.58 | [Touchstone to Audrey and Jaques] by how much defence is better than no skill, by so much is a horn more precious than to want |
| CE I.i.8 | [Duke to Egeon, of merchants] wanting guilders to redeem their lives |
| CE II.ii.160 | [Antipholus of Syracuse to Luciana] every word by all my wit being scanned, / Wants wit in all one word to understand |
| CE II.ii.57 | [Dromio of Syracuse to Antipholus of Syracuse] I think the meat wants that I have |
| Cym III.v.115 | [Cloten to Pisanio] thou shouldst neither want my means for thy relief, nor my voice for thy preferment |
| Cym V.iv.187 | [Posthumus to First Gaoler] there are none want eyes to direct them the way I am going, but such as wink, and will not use them |
| E3 I.ii.3 | [Countess alone, as if to Montague] I fear thou want'st / The lively spirit sharply to solicit / With vehement suit the king in my behalf |
| E3 III.iii.204 | [King Edward to Prince Edward] Now wants there nought but knighthood, which deferred / We leave till thou hast won it in the field |
| H5 III.vii.70 | [Constable to Dauphin, of losing some of the stars on his armour] my sky shall not want |
| H8 I.i.107 | [Norfolk to Buckingham, of Wolsey] What his high hatred would effect wants not / A minister in his power |
| H8 III.ii.308 | [Wolsey to all] If I blush, / It is to see a nobleman want manners |
| Ham I.ii.150 | [Hamlet alone] a beast that wants discourse of reason / Would have mourned longer |
| Ham III.ii.49 | [Hamlet to Players, quoting a gentleman] My coat wants a cullison |
| Ham III.iv.131 | [Hamlet to Ghost] what I have to do / Will want true colour |
| Ham IV.v.91 | [Claudius to Gertrude, of Ophelia] Her brother ... wants not buzzers to infect his ear |
| JC I.iii.58 | [Cassius to Casca] those sparks of life / That should be in a Roman you do want, / Or else you use not |
| KJ III.iv.13 | [Lewis the Dauphin to King Philip, of the English advance] Such temperate order in so fierce a cause, / Doth want example |
| KJ IV.iii.127 | [Bastard to Hubert] if thou wantest a cord, the smallest thread ... / Will serve to strangle thee |
| KL I.i.224 | [Cordelia to Lear] I want that glib and oily art / To speak and purpose not |
| KL III.vi.23 | [Edgar as Poor Tom to an imaginary Gonerill or Regan] Want'st thou eyes at trial, madam? |
| KL IV.iv.20.1 | [Cordelia to all, of Lear] seek for him, / Lest his ungoverned rage dissolve the life / That wants the means to lead it |
| LLL IV.ii.78 | [Holofernes to Nathaniel, of the people] If their sons be ingenious, they shall want no instruction [F ingennous] |
| LLL IV.iii.235 | [Berowne to King, of his lady] Where nothing wants that want itself doth seek |
| Luc.1455 | [of Hecuba] Her blue blood changed to black in every vein, / Wanting the spring that those shrunk pipes had fed |
| Luc.42 | [] meaner men should vaunt / That golden hap which their superiors want |
| Luc.557 | [of Lucrece and Tarquin] Her sad behaviour feeds his vulture folly, / A swallowing gulf that even in plenty wanteth |
| Luc.97 | [of Tarquin] poorly rich so wanteth in his store / That cloyed with much he pineth still for more |
| Mac III.vi.8 | [Lennox to Lord] Who cannot want the thought how monstrous / It was for Malcolm and for Donalbain / To kill their gracious father? |
| Mac IV.ii.9 | [Lady Macduff to Ross, of her husband] He wants the natural touch |
| MND I.i.54 | [Theseus to Hermia, of Lysander and Demetrius] wanting your father's voice, / The other must be held the worthier |
| MND II.i.101 | [Titania to Oberon] The human mortals want their winter cheer |
| MV V.i.205 | [Portia to Bassanio] What man is there so much unreasonable ... wanted the modesty / To urge the thing held as a ceremony? |
| MW II.ii.247 | [Ford as Brook to Falstaff] Want no money, Sir John; you shall want none. |
| MW IV.iv.37 | [Ford to all] there want not many that do fear / In deep of night to walk by this Herne's Oak |
| MW V.v.135 | [Falstaff to all, of what Evans has said] Have I laid my brain in the sun and dried it, that it wants matter to prevent so gross o'erreaching as this? |
| Per I.iv.11 | [Cleon to Dionyza] Who wanteth food and will not say he wants it [first instance] |
| Per I.iv.16 | [Cleon to Dionyza] if heaven slumber while their creatures want |
| Per I.iv.19 | [Cleon to Dionyza] wanting breath to speak, help me with tears |
| R2 II.iii.10 | [Northumberland to Bolingbroke] what a weary way / From Ravenspurgh to Cotswold will be found / In Ross and Willoughby, wanting your company |
| R2 III.iii.179 | [King Richard to all] Down, down I come like glistering Phaethon, / Wanting the manage of unruly jades |
| R2 III.iii.203 | [King Richard to York] Tears show their love, but want their remedies |
| R2 III.iv.13 | [Queen Isabel to Ladies] joy, being altogether wanting |
| R2 III.iv.18 | [Queen Isabel to Ladies] For what I have I need not to repeat, / And what I want it boots not to complain |
| R3 I.i.16 | [Richard alone] I, that am rudely stamped, and want love's majesty |
| R3 II.ii.42 | [Queen Elizabeth to Duchess of York] Why wither not the leaves that want their sap? |
| R3 III.vii.124 | [Buckingham to Richard] This noble isle doth want her proper limbs |
| R3 V.iii.13 | [King Richard to Norfolk] the King's name is a tower of strength, / Which they upon the adverse faction want |
| RJ II.ii.155 | [Romeo alone, of Juliet's absence] A thousand times the worse, to want thy light! |
| RJ II.ii.78 | [Romeo to Juliet] My life were better ended by their hate / Than death prorogued, wanting of thy love |
| RJ V.iii.15 | [Paris to himself, of Juliet's tomb] Which with sweet water nightly I will dew; / Or, wanting that, with tears distilled by moans |
| Sonn.38.1 | [] How can my Muse want subject to invent |
| Sonn.69.2 | [] Those parts of thee that the world's eye doth view / Want nothing that the thought of hearts can mend |
| TC III.ii.174 | [Troilus to Cressida] their rhymes, / Full of protest, of oath, and big compare, / Want similes |
| TC III.iii.25 | [Calchas to Agamemnon, of the Trojans and Antenor] their negotiations all must slack, / Wanting his manage |
| Tem epilogue.13 | [Prospero to audience] Now I want / Spirits to enforce, art to enchant |
| Tem III.iii.26 | [Antonio to all, of their vision] what does else want credit, come to me / And I'll be sworn 'tis true |
| Tem III.iii.39 | [Alonso to all, of the spirits] Although they want the use of tongue, a kind / Of excellent dumb discourse |
| Tem IV.i.58 | [Prospero to Ariel] Bring a corollary, / Rather than want a spirit [i.e. bring too many rather than too few] |
| TG I.ii.95 | [Lucetta to Julia] There wanteth but a mean to fill your song |
| TG II.iv.110 | [Silvia to Proteus] duty never yet did want his meed |
| TG II.vi.12 | [Proteus alone] he wants wit that wants resolved will / To learn his wit t'exchange the bad for better |
| TG III.i.147 | [Duke reading Valentine's letter] Because myself do want my servants' fortune |
| Tim II.i.5 | [Senator alone] If I want gold, steal but a beggar's dog / And give it Timon, why, the dog coins gold |
| Tim II.ii.210 | [Flavius to Timon] That now they are at fall, want treasure |
| Tim III.ii.39 | [Lucius to Servilius] He cannot want fifty five hundred talents |
| Tim III.ii.8 | [Lucius to First Stranger, of Timon] He cannot want for money |
| Tim IV.iii.417 | [Bandits to Timon] We are not thieves, but men that much do want. |
| Tit II.i.26 | [Demetrius to Chiron] thy years want wit, thy wit wants edge |
| Tit III.ii.5 | [Titus to Marcus] Thy niece and I, poor creatures, want our hands |
| Tit V.ii.18 | [Titus to disguised Tamora] How can I grace my talk, / Wanting a hand to give it action? |
| TNK I.i.108 | [Third Queen to Emilia] sorrow wanting form / Is pressed with deeper matter |
| TNK I.i.222.1 | [Pirithous to Theseus] the feast's solemnity / Shall want till your return |
| TNK III.iii.52.1 | [Arcite to Palamon] Get off your trinkets; you shall want naught |
| TNK III.vi.209 | [Pirithous to Theseus] by your most noble soul, / Which cannot want due mercy, I beg first |
| TNK III.vi.216 | [Theseus to Emilia] you have pity, / But want the understanding where to use it |
| TS III.ii.245 | [Baptista to all] though bride and bridegroom wants / For to supply the places at the table, / You know there wants no junkets at the feast |
| TS III.ii.5 | [Baptista to Tranio as Lucentio] What mockery will it be / To want the bridegroom when the priest attends |
| TS induction.1.102 | [Lord to Servants, of the Players] Let them want nothing that my house affords |
| WT IV.ii.13 | [Polixenes to Camillo] Better not to have had thee than thus to want thee |
| WT IV.iv.591 | [Camillo to Florizel] That you may know you shall not want, one word |