| 2H6 I.iii.33 | [Suffolk to Peter] We'll hear more of your matter before the King |
| 3H6 III.iii.258 | [Warwick alone, of Edward] Matter of marriage was the charge he gave me |
| AC II.vii.56.2 | [Pompey aside to Menas] The matter? |
| AW IV.v.74 | [Lafew to Countess] there is no fitter matter |
| Cym IV.iii.28.1 | [Cymbeline to all] I am amazed with matter |
| H8 I.i.126 | [Buckingham to Norfolk, of Wolsey] I read in's looks / Matter against me |
| LLL I.i.198 | [Costard to Berowne, of Armado's letter] The matter is to me, sir, as concerning Jaquenetta |
| MM IV.v.3 | [Duke to Friar Peter] The matter being afoot |
| MM V.i.91 | [Duke to Isabella] The matter. Proceed |
| MW IV.vi.14 | [Fenton to Host, of Anne's letter] The mirth whereof so larded with my matter / That neither singly can be manifested / Without the show of both |
| Oth I.i.84 | [Brabantio to Roderigo] What is the matter there? |
| Oth I.ii.38.2 | [Othello to Cassio] What is the matter, think you? |
| Oth V.ii.47 | [Desdemona to Othello] What's the matter? |
| RJ I.iii.8 | [Lady Capulet to Juliet] This is the matter |
| TC II.iii.184 | [Ulysses to Agamemnon, of Achilles] the proud lord, / That ... never suffers matter of the world / Enter his thoughts |
| TG II.v.19 | [Speed to Launce, of Proteus and Julia] how stands the matter with them? |
| TN I.v.203 | [Viola as Cesario to Olivia] my words are as full of peace as matter |
| TN III.i.85 | [Viola as Cesario to Olivia] My matter hath no voice, lady, but to your own most pregnant and vouchsafed ear |
| TNK II.ii.43 | [Third Countryman to the others, of the schoolmaster] The matter's too far driven between him / And the tanner's daughter to let slip now [i.e. the love affair] |
| WT I.ii.166 | [Polixenes to Leontes, of Florizel] If at home, sir, / He's all my exercise, my mirth, my matter [i.e. my serious as well as my pleasureable moments] |
| WT IV.iv.679 | [Autolycus to himself, of the arrival of the Clown and Shepherd] Here is more matter for a hot brain |
| WT V.ii.103 | [Second Gentleman to other Gentlemen, of Paulina] I thought she had some great matter there in hand |