| 1H6 V.iv.93 | [Richard as if to Pucelle] Thou foul accursed minister of hell! |
| 2H6 III.i.355 | [York alone, of creating rebellion] for a minister of my intent |
| 2H6 V.ii.34 | [Young Clifford to himself] O war... / Whom angry heavens do make their minister |
| AC III.vi.88 | [Caesar to Octavia] the high gods ... makes his ministers / Of us |
| AC V.ii.4 | [Cleopatra to all, of Caesar] he's but Fortune's knave, / A minister of her will |
| Cym V.iii.72 | [Posthumus alone, of death] hath moe ministers than we / That draw his knives i'th' war |
| H8 I.i.108 | [Norfolk to Buckingham, of Wolsey] What his high hatred would effect wants not / A minister in his power |
| Ham I.iv.39 | [Hamlet to himself, on seeing the Ghost] Angels and ministers of grace defend us! |
| KL III.ii.21 | [Lear to the storm] yet I call you servile ministers |
| Mac I.v.46 | [Lady Macbeth alone] take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers [i.e. agents of murder] |
| Mac V.vi.107 | [Malcolm to all, of Macbeth] the cruel ministers / Of this dead butcher |
| MM V.i.115 | [Isabella as if to the heavens] O you blessed ministers above |
| MW IV.ii.206 | [Mistress Page to Mistress Ford, of Falstaff] If ... the poor unvirtuous fat knight shall be any further afflicted, we two will still be the ministers |
| Oth V.ii.8 | [Othello to himself, of the light] If I quench thee, thou flaming minister, / I can again thy former light restore |
| R3 I.iv.223 | [First Murderer to Clarence] Who made thee ... a bloody minister / When gallant-springing brave Plantagenet ... was struck dead by thee? |
| Tem I.ii.131 | [Prospero to Miranda, of Antonio's plan] The ministers for th'purpose hurried thence / Me and thy crying self |
| Tem I.ii.275 | [Prospero to Ariel, of Sycorax] she did confine thee, / By help of her more potent ministers |
| Tem III.iii.62 | [Ariel to Alonso, Sebastian, and Antonio] I and my fellows / Are ministers of Fate |
| Tem III.iii.88 | [Prospero to Ariel] with good life / And observation strange, my meaner ministers / Their several kinds have done |
| Tim II.ii.136 | [Timon to Flavius] that unaptness [was] made your minister / Thus to excuse yourself [or: prompt] |