| AC I.iii.16 | [Cleopatra to Charmian] It cannot be thus long; the sides of nature / Will not sustain it |
| Cym IV.ii.357 | [Lucius to all] nature doth abhor to make his bed / With the defunct |
| Ham III.ii.19 | [Hamlet to First Player] you o'erstep not the modesty of nature |
| Ham IV.v.163 | [Laertes to all] Nature is fine in love |
| Ham V.ii.69 | [Hamlet to Horatio, of Claudius] this canker of our nature |
| KL II.iv.142 | [Regan to Lear] Nature in you stands on the very verge / Of his confine |
| KL II.iv.261 | [Lear to Regan] Allow not nature more than nature needs [first instance] |
| KL III.ii.48 | [disguised Kent to Lear, of the storm] Man's nature cannot carry / Th'affliction nor the fear |
| KL III.iv.3.1 | [disguised Kent to Lear] The tyranny of the open night's too rough / For nature to endure |
| KL III.iv.67 | [Lear to disguised Kent, of Edgar as Poor Tom] Nothing could have subdued nature / To such a lowness but his unkind daughters |
| KL III.vi.76 | [Lear to all] Is there any cause in nature that makes these hard hearts |
| KL IV.ii.32 | [Albany to Gonerill] nature which contemns its origin |
| Mac IV.iii.67 | [Macduff to Malcolm] Boundless intemperance / In nature is a tyranny |
| Oth I.iii.62 | [Brabantio to Duke] For nature so preposterously to err |
| Oth IV.i.39 | [Othello to Iago] Nature would not invest herself in such shadowing passion without some instruction |
| Per III.ii.24 | [First Gentleman to Cerimon] 'Tis most strange / Nature should be so conversant with pain |
| TC III.iii.175 | [Ulysses to Achilles] One touch of nature makes the whole world kin [i.e. a hint of frailty] |
| Tim II.ii.223 | [Timon to Flavius, of the Senators] nature, as it grows again toward earth, / Is fashioned for the journey, dull and heavy |
| Tim IV.iii.19 | [Timon alone] All's obliquy; / There's nothing level in our cursed natures / But direct villainy |
| Tim IV.iii.6 | [Timon alone] Nor nature ... can bear great fortune / But by contempt of nature [second instance: or sense 2] |
| Tim V.iv.77 | [Alcibiades as if to Timon, of tears] our droplets which / From niggard nature fall |
| TNK I.ii.3 | [Arcite to Palamon] unhardened in / The crimes of nature |