| Ham III.ii.259 | [Hamlet to Ophelia] It would cost you a groaning to take off mine edge [i.e. satisfying my sexual appetite would end up with you groaning in labour] |
| MM I.iv.60 | [Lucio to Isabella, of Angelo] a man ... [who] doth rebate and blunt his natural edge / With profits of the mind |
| R2 I.iii.296 | [Bolingbroke to John of Gaunt] who can ... cloy the hungry edge of appetite / By bare imagination of a feast |
| TS I.ii.72 | [Petruchio to Hortensio, of marrying a rich wife whatever her qualities] She moves me not, or not removes at least / Affection's edge in me |