| 2H6 III.i.194 | [Gloucester to King] thy decay I fear |
| Cor III.i.78 | [Coriolanus to First Senator] so shall my lungs / Coin words till their decay |
| KJ I.i.28 | [King John to Chatillon] Be thou the ... sullen presage of your own decay |
| KJ IV.iii.154 | [Bastard to Hubert] vast confusion waits ... / The imminent decay of wrested pomp |
| Luc.808 | [Lucrece to herself] The light will show charactered in my brow / The story of sweet chastity's decay |
| MW V.v.143 | [Falstaff to all] This is enough to be the decay of lust and late-walking through the realm |
| PP.14.4 | [Pilgrim, of his love] She ... daffed me to a cabin hanged with care, / To descant on the doubts of my decay |
| R3 IV.iv.409 | [King Richard to Queen Elizabeth, of her daughter] Without her, follows ... / Death, desolation, ruin, and decay |
| Sonn.80.14 | [] The worst was this: my love was my decay |