| 2H6 IV.x.51 | [Iden to Cade] As for words, whose greatness answers words, / Let this my sword report what speech forbears |
| 3H6 V.vi.79 | [Richard to himself, of his crooked body] Let hell make crooked my mind to answer it |
| CE III.i.20 | [Antipholus of Ephesus to Balthasar] Pray God our cheer / May answer my good will |
| Cym IV.ii.192 | [Guiderius to Belarius] All solemn things / Should answer solemn accidents |
| MA V.i.12 | [Leonato to Antonio, of others' grief compared to his] let it answer every strain for strain |
| MM III.ii.244 | [disguised Duke to Escalus, of Angelo] If his own life answer the straitness of his proceeding, it shall become him well |
| R3 I.iii.193 | [Queen Margaret to all, of her woes and of Rutland] Should all but answer for that peevish brat? [i.e. should all that be equivalent to the death of one child] |
| TC I.iii.15 | [Agamemnon to all, of their war records] trial did draw / Bias and thwart, not answering the aim ... / That gave't surmised shape |