| AW II.i.56 | [Parolles to Bertram] though the devil lead the measure |
| AYL V.iv.176 | [Duke Senior to all] heaped in joy, to th'measures fall |
| AYL V.iv.43 | [Touchstone to all] I have trod a measure |
| E3 III.ii.63 | [Third Frenchman to all] Three ways these dreadful ministers of wrath / Do tread the measures of their tragic march [i.e. advance in a steady march] |
| H5 V.ii.135 | [King Henry to Katherine, of dancing] I have no strength in measure |
| H8 I.iv.106 | [King Henry to Wolsey, of the ladies] I have ... a measure / To lead 'em once again |
| LLL V.ii.187 | [Boyet to masked Rosaline, of the King's party] they have measured many a mile / To tread a measure with you [second instance] |
| LLL V.ii.222 | [masked King to masked Rosaline, of holding hands] More measure of this measure! [second instance] |
| MA II.i.65 | [Beatrice to Hero] wooing, wedding, and repenting, is as a Scotch jig, a measure, and a cinquepace |
| MW V.v.79 | [Evans as a Satyr to all] twenty glow-worms shall our lanterns be, / To guide our measure round about the tree |
| Per II.iii.103 | [Simonides to Pericles, of the ladies of Tyre] their measures are ... excellent |
| R2 I.iii.291 | [John of Gaunt to Bolingbroke] Suppose ... thy steps no more / Than a delightful measure |
| R2 III.iv.7 | [Queen Isabel to Second Lady, of dancing] My legs can keep no measure in delight [punned in next line] |
| R3 I.i.8 | [Richard alone] Our dreadful marches [are changed] to delightful measures |
| RJ I.iv.10 | [Benvolio to Romeo, of the Capulets] We'll measure them a measure and be gone [second instance] |
| RJ I.v.50 | [Romeo to himself, of Juliet] The measure done, I'll watch her place of stand |
| Ven.1148 | [Venus to dead Adonis, of love] Teaching decrepit age to tread the measures |
| WT IV.iv.727 | [Autolycus to Shepherd] Hath not my gait in it the measure of the court? |