| 1H4 II.iii.22 | [Hotspur to himself] my Lord of York commends the plot |
| 2H4 III.ii.146 | [Shallow to Falstaff] I commend you well |
| 2H6 V.i.54 | [Buckingham to York] I commend this kind submission |
| AW IV.iii.80 | [Second Lord to Messenger, of letters of commendation about Bertram from the Duke to the King] They shall be no more than needful there, if they were more than they can commend [i.e. even if they praised him more, they would still be needed] |
| AYL II.ii.12 | [Second Lord to Duke Frederick] Your daughter and her cousin much commend / The parts and graces of the wrestler |
| JC II.i.146 | [Metellus Cimber to all, of Cicero] his silver hairs / Will purchase us a good opinion / And buy men's voices to commend our deeds |
| LLL IV.ii.112 | [Nathaniel reading Berowne's letter to Rosaline] Well- learned is that tongue that well can thee commend |
| Luc.a9 | [] after supper every one commended the virtues of his own wife |
| Mac IV.i.39 | [Hecat to Witches] I commend your pains |
| MV IV.i.158 | [Clerk reading Bellario's letter, of Portia as Balthasar] his own learning, the greatness whereof I cannot enough commend |
| MW II.i.136 | [Page to himself, of Pistol] I will not believe such a Cataian, though the priest o'th'town commended him for a true man |
| Per II.v.21 | [Simonides to himself, of Thaisa] Well, I do commend her choice |
| Per II.v.29 | [Pericles to Simonides] It is your grace's pleasure to commend, / Not my desert |
| PP.5.8 | [Pilgrim, of his love] Well-learned is that tongue that well can thee commend |
| Sonn.69.4 | [of tongues] Uttering bare truth, even so as foes commend [i.e. even your enemies admire you] |
| TC I.ii.106 | [Cressida to Pandarus] I had as lief Helen's golden tongue had commended Troilus for a copper nose |
| TC I.iii.243 | [Aeneas to all] what the repining enemy commends, / That breath fame blows; that praise, sole pure, transcends |
| TC IV.i.79 | [Paris to Diomedes] We'll not commend what we intend to sell |
| TG III.i.102 | [Valentine to Duke, of women] Flatter and praise, commend, extol their graces |
| TG IV.ii.3 | [Proteus alone] now I must be ... unjust to Thurio; / Under the colour of commending him |
| TG IV.ii.39 | [Musicians' song, of Silvia] all our swains commend her |
| TN II.v.148 | [Malvolio, reading the letter supposedly from Olivia] Remember who commended thy yellow stockings |
| TN II.v.159 | [Malvolio to himself] She did commend my yellow stockings of late |
| TN III.iv.47 | [Malvolio to Olivia, quoting from the letter] Remember who commended thy yellow stockings |
| TS II.i.175 | [Petruchio alone, of Katherina] Say she be mute and will not speak a word, / Then I'll commend her volubility |