| 1H4 III.i.138 | [Glendower to all] Break with your wives of your departure hence [i.e. break the news] |
| 1H6 I.iii.81 | [Gloucester to Winchester] we shall meet and break our minds at large [also: crack our skulls against each other] |
| AC I.ii.178 | [Antony to Enobarbus] I shall break / The cause of our expedience to the Queen |
| H5 V.ii.242 | [King Henry to Katherine] break thy mind to me in broken English |
| Mac I.vii.48 | [Lady Macbeth to Macbeth, of telling her the plot] What beast was't then / That made you break this enterprise to me? |
| TG I.iii.44 | [Antonio to Panthino, of Proteus] now will we break with him [i.e. reveal the matter] |
| TG III.i.59 | [Duke to Valentine] I am to break with thee of some affairs / That touch me near |