| AYL II.vii.141 | [Jaques to all] All the world's a stage, / And all the men and women merely players |
| H8 I.iii.6 | [Lord Chancellor to Sands] all the good our English / Have got by the late voyage is but merely / A fit or two o'th' face |
| LC.174 | [of the man] Thought characters and words merely but art |
| MM V.i.451.1 | [Isabella to Duke] Thoughts are no subjects, / Intents but merely thoughts. Mariana: Merely, my lord |
| Oth I.iii.331 | [Iago to Roderigo, of love] It is merely a lust of the blood |
| R2 IV.i.296 | [Richard to Bolingbroke] these external manners of laments / Are merely shadows to the unseen grief / That swells with silence in the tortured soul |