| CE II.i.91 | [Adriana to Luciana] Are my discourses dull? |
| CE II.i.92 | [Adriana to Luciana] If voluble and sharp discourse be marred |
| CE III.i.109 | [Antipholus of Ephesus to Balthasar] I know a wench of excellent discourse |
| CE III.ii.169 | [Antipholus of Syracuse alone, of Luciana] Of such enchanting presence and discourse |
| Cym III.vii.63 | [Belarius to disguised Innogen] Discourse is heavy, fasting [i.e. is burdensome when one is hungry] |
| H5 I.i.43 | [Canterbury to Ely, of the King] List his discourse of war, and you shall hear / A fearful battle rendered you in music |
| MM I.i.4 | [Duke to Escalus] Of government the properties to unfold / Would seem in me t'affect speech and discourse |
| MM I.ii.184 | [Claudio to Lucio, of Isabella] she hath prosperous art / When she will play with reason and discourse |
| MV III.v.42 | [Lorenzo to Launcelot] discourse [will] grow commendable in none only but parrots |
| MW II.ii.218 | [Ford as Brook to Falstaff] you are a gentleman of ... admirable discourse |
| R2 II.iii.6 | [Northumberland to Bolingbroke] your fair discourse hath been as sugar |
| R3 III.vii.19 | [Buckingham to Richard] [I] left nothing fitting for your purpose / Untouched, or slightly handled in discourse |
| R3 V.iii.100 | [Derby to Richmond] the fearful time / Cuts off the ... ample interchange of sweet discourse |
| Sonn.147.11 | [] My thoughts and my discourse as mad men's are |
| TC I.i.56 | [Troilus to Pandarus, of Cressida] Handlest in thy discourse, O, that her hand |
| TC II.ii.117 | [Hector to Troilus] is your blood / So madly hot that no discourse of reason ... / Can qualify the same? |
| Tem V.i.304 | [Prospero to Alonso, of the night] I'll waste / With such discourse as ... shall make it / Go quick away |
| TG I.iii.31 | [Panthino to Antonio, of Proteus at the Emperor's court] There shall he ... / Hear sweet discourse |
| TG II.iv.107 | [Valentine to Proteus] Leave off discourse of disability |
| TG II.iv.138 | [Valentine to Proteus] There is ... no discourse, except it be of love |
| TG V.ii.15 | [Thurio to Proteus, of Silvia] How likes she my discourse? |
| TG V.iv.164 | [Valentine to Duke] I dare be bold / With our discourse to make your grace to smile |
| TN I.iv.25 | [Orsino to Viola as Cesario, of Olivia] Surprise her with discourse of my dear faith |