| AC V.ii.178 | [Cleopatra to Caesar] when we fall, / We answer others' merits in our name [i.e. bad deserts] |
| KL V.iii.45 | [Albany to Edmund, of the captives] to use them / As we shall find their merits and our safety / May equally determine |
| LLL IV.i.21 | [Princess to all] my beauty will be saved by merit! [or: sense 3] |