| AC II.vii.19 | [Antony to Lepidus, of those estimating the flow of the Nile] They know ... if dearth / Or foison follow |
| Cor I.i.65 | [Menenius to Citizens] For your wants, / Your suffering in this dearth |
| Cor I.i.70 | [Menenius to Citizens] For the dearth, / The gods, not the patricians, make it |
| Cor I.ii.10 | [Aufidius to all, reading a letter about the Romans] The dearth is great |
| KL I.ii.144 | [Edmund to Edgar, of a writer] the effects he writes of succeed unhappily, as of ... dearth |
| R2 III.iii.163 | [King Richard to Aumerle, of their tears] make a dearth in this revolting land |
| Sonn.14.4 | [of astronomy] not to tell ... / Of plagues, of dearths, or season's quality |
| TG II.vii.16 | [Julia to Lucetta] Pity the dearth that I have pined in / By longing for that food |