| Ham III.i.45 | [Polonius to Ophelia] Read on this book, / That show of such an exercise may colour / Your loneliness |
| Oth III.iv.41 | [Othello to Desdemona] Much castigation, exercise devout |
| R3 III.vii.63 | [Catesby to Buckingham, of Richard] in no worldly suits would he be moved / To draw him from his holy exercise |
| WT III.ii.239 | [Leontes to all, of visiting the chapel] So long as nature / Will bear up with this exercise, so long / I daily vow to use it [also: sense 1] |