| 1H4 III.i.176 | [Worcester to Hotspur, of Hotspur's behaviour] Though sometimes it show greatness, courage, blood - / And that's the dearest grace it renders you |
| 1H4 IV.iv.31 | [Archbishop to Sir Michael] the King hath drawn ... many more corrivals and dear men / Of estimation and command in arms |
| Per IV.vi.178 | [Marina to Boult] For what thou professest, a baboon ... / Would own a name too dear |
| TC V.iii.27 | [Hector to Cassandra and Andromache] the dear man / Holds honour far more precious-dear than life |
| TNK I.iv.9 | [Theseus to Queens, of their dead husbands] honour them / With treble ceremony; rather than a gap / Should be in their dear rites |