| 1H4 IV.iii.22 | [Vernon to Hotspur] Your uncle Worcester's horse came but today, / And now their pride and mettle is asleep |
| 1H4 V.iv.23 | [Prince Hal to King Henry, of Lancaster] this boy / Lends mettle to us all! |
| AC I.ii.143 | [Antony to Enobarbus, of Cleopatra] I do not think there is mettle in death ... she hath such a celerity in dying |
| H5 III.i.27 | [King Henry to yeomen] show us here / The mettle of your pasture |
| JC II.i.134 | [Brutus to all] do not stain ... th'insuppressive mettle of our spirits |
| TC I.iii.258 | [Aeneas to Agamemnon] every Greek of mettle, let him know / What Troy means fairly shall be spoke aloud |