| 1H4 III.i.170 | [Mortimer to Hotspur, of crossing Glendower] do not use it oft, let me entreat you |
| 1H4 III.i.7 | [Glendower to Hotspur] sit--good cousin Hotspur-- / For by that name as oft as Lancaster doth speak of you / His cheek looks pale |
| 1H4 III.ii.24 | [Prince Hal to Henry] many tales devised, / Which oft the ear of greatness needs must hear |
| 1H4 III.iii.83 | [Hostess to all, of Falstaff] I have heard the Prince tell him I know not how oft, that that ring was copper |
| 1H6 I.iv.3 | [Boy to Master Gunner, of the English] I ... oft have shot at them |
| 2H4 II.ii.104 | [Poins to Prince Henry, reading Falstaff's letter] as oft as he has occasion to name himself |
| 2H6 I.i.183 | [Salisbury to York and Warwick] Oft have I seen the haughty Cardinal |
| 2H6 II.i.92 | [Wife to all, of Simpcox being called to St Alban's shrine] Most true, forsooth; and many time and oft / Myself have heard a voice to call him so |
| 2H6 II.iv.89 | [Duchess to Stanley] Death, at whose name I oft have been afeard |
| 2H6 III.ii.161 | [Warwick to all] Oft have I seen a timely-parted ghost / Of ashy semblance |
| 2H6 IV.i.136 | [Suffolk to all] Great men oft die by vile Besonians |
| 2H6 IV.iv.1 | [Queen to herself] Oft have I heard that grief softens the mind |
| 2H6 IV.vii.75 | [Say to rebels] Great men have reaching hands: oft have I struck / Those that I never saw, and struck them dead |
| 2H6 V.i.151 | [Richard to all] Oft have I seen a hot o'erweening cur / Run back and bite, because he was withheld |
| 2H6 V.ii.54 | [Young Clifford alone] beauty, that the tyrant oft reclaims |
| 3H6 I.iv.11 | [York to all] Three times did Richard make a lane to me ... / And full as oft came Edward to my side |
| 3H6 I.iv.128 | [York to Queen] 'Tis beauty that doth oft make women proud |
| 3H6 II.i.148 | [Richard to and of Warwick] Oft have I heard his praises in pursuit |
| 3H6 V.ii.20 | [Warwick alone] The wrinkles in my brows, now filled with blood, / Were likened oft to kingly sepulchres |
| AC III.vi.18 | [Caesar to Agrippa and Maecenas, of Cleopatra] She ... / That day appeared, and oft before gave audience |
| AC III.xiii.82.2 | [Cleopatra to Thidias, of her hand] Your Caesar's father oft ... / Bestowed his lips on that unworthy place |
| AC IV.xiv.139 | [Antony to his soldiers] I have led you oft |
| AW I.i.103 | [Helena to herself] full oft we see / Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly |
| AW I.i.212 | [Helena alone] Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie |
| AW I.ii.56 | [King to all, of Bertram's father] his good melancholy oft began / On the catastrophe and heel of pastime |
| AW II.i.137 | [Helena to King] He that of greatest works is finisher / Oft does them by the weakest minister |
| AW II.i.142 | [Helena to King] Oft expectation fails, and most oft there / Where most it promises, and oft it hits / Where hope is coldest and despair most fits |
| AW II.iii.138 | [King to Bertram, of honour] on every grave / A lying trophy, and as oft is dumb / Where dust and damned oblivion is the tomb |
| AW III.ii.122 | [Helena alone] Whence honour but of danger wins a scar, / As oft it loses all |
| AW V.iii.63 | [King to Bertram] Oft our displeasures, to ourselves unjust, / Destroy our friends and after weep their dust |
| AW V.iii.82 | [King to Bertram, of a ring] mine eye, / While I was speaking, oft was fastened to't |
| AYL II.ii.8 | [Second Lord to Duke Frederick] the roynish clown at whom so oft / Your grace was wont to laugh is also missing |
| AYL III.iv.42 | [Corin to Rosalind as Ganymede and Celia as Aliena] you have oft inquired / After the shepherd that complained of love |
| AYL III.v.106 | [Silvius to Phebe, of Rosalind as Ganymede] I have met him oft |
| AYL IV.iii.135 | [Celia as Aliena to Oliver, of Orlando] Was't you that did so oft contrive to kill him? |
| AYL V.iv.80 | [Jaques to Touchstone, of a nobleman] how oft did you say his beard was not well cut? |
| CE I.ii.19 | [Antipholus of Syracuse to First Merchant, of Dromio of Syracuse] A trusty villain, sir, that very oft, / ... Lightens my humour with his merry jests |
| CE V.i.56 | [Adriana to Abbess, of Antipholus of Ephesus] some love that drew him oft from home |
| Cor II.ii.69.2 | [Coriolanus to all] Yet oft, / When blows have made me stay, I fled from words |
| Cor IV.i.24 | [Coriolanus to Cominius] thou hast oft beheld / Heart-hardening spectacles |
| Cym I.vi.14 | [Queen to Cornelius] our great king himself doth woo me oft / For my confections |
| Cym II.iii.67 | [Cloten alone] 'Tis gold / Which buys admittance--oft it doth |
| Cym II.iv.162 | [Posthumus to Iachimo, of Innogen] Me of my lawful pleasure she restrained / And prayed me oft forbearance |
| Cym III.iii.52 | [Belarius to Guiderius and Arviragus, of goings-on at court] hath as oft a sland'rous epitaph / As record of fair act |
| Cym III.iii.65 | [Belarius to Guiderius and Arviragus] My fault being nothing--as I have told you oft |
| Cym IV.ii.112 | [Belarius to Arviragus] the defect of judgement / Is oft the cause of fear |
| Cym V.v.249 | [Cornelius to Cymbeline] The queen, sir, very oft importuned me / To temper poisons for her |
| E3 I.i.112 | [King Edward to Lorraine] I shall be scarred / As oft as I dispose myself to rest / Until my colours be displayed in France |
| H5 Epil.chorus.13 | [Chorus, of another play] Which oft our stage hath shown |
| H5 IV.i.243 | [King Henry to himself, of ceremony] What drink'st thou oft, instead of homage sweet, / But poisoned flattery |
| H5 V.ii.356 | [Queen Isabel to all] fell jealousy, / Which troubles oft the bed of blessed marriage |
| H8 I.ii.160 | [Surveyor to King Henry] a holy monk, ‘that oft’, says he, / ‘Hath sent to me’ |
| H8 I.ii.81 | [Wolsey to King Henry] What we oft do best, / By sick interpreters, once weak ones, is / Not ours, or not allowed |
| H8 II.iv.164 | [King Henry to Wolsey] You ever / Have wished the sleeping of this business, never desired / It to be stirred, but oft have hindered, oft, / The passages made toward it |
| Ham I.i.139 | [Horatio to Ghost] you spirits oft walk in death |
| Ham I.iii.40 | [Laertes to Ophelia] The canker galls the infants of the spring / Too oft before their buttons be disclosed |
| Ham I.iii.72 | [Polonius to Laertes] the apparel oft proclaims the man |
| Ham I.iii.76 | [Polonius to Laertes] For loan oft loses both itself and friend |
| Ham I.iii.91 | [Polonius to Ophelia, of Hamlet] 'Tis told me he hath very oft of late / Given private time to you |
| Ham I.iv.23 | [Hamlet to Horatio] So oft it chances in particular men |
| Ham II.i.105 | [Polonius to Ophelia] This is the very ecstasy of love, / Whose violent property fordoes itself ... / As oft as any passion under heaven |
| Ham III.i.46 | [Polonius to Claudius] We are oft to blame in this ... that with devotion's visage / And pious action we do sugar o'er / The devil himself |
| Ham III.ii.197 | [First Player as King to his Queen] what we do determine oft we break |
| Ham III.iii.59 | [Claudius alone] oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself / Buys out the law |
| Ham V.i.186 | [Hamlet to Horatio, of Yorick's skull] Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft |
| JC III.i.116.2 | [Cassius to all, of future retellings of Caesar's murder] So oft as that shall be, / So often shall the knot of us be called / The men that gave their country liberty |
| JC III.ii.77 | [Antony to all] The evil that men do lives after them, / The good is oft interred with their bones |
| KJ IV.ii.204 | [King John to Hubert] Why urgest thou so oft young Arthur's death? |
| KJ IV.ii.219 | [King John to Hubert] How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds / Make deeds ill done! |
| KL I.ii.72 | [Edmund to Gloucester, of Edgar] I have heard him oft maintain it to be fit that, sons at perfect age and fathers declined, the father should be as ward to the son |
| KL I.iv.343 | [Albany to Gonerill] Striving to better, oft we mar what's well |
| KL II.ii.72 | [disguised Kent to Cornwall, of Oswald] Such smiling rogues as these, / Like rats, oft bite the holy cords atwain |
| KL III.vi.58 | [disguised Kent to Lear] where is the patience now / That you so oft have boasted to retain? |
| KL IV.i.19 | [Gloucester to Old Man] Full oft 'tis seen / Our means secure us, and our mere defects / Prove our commodities |
| KL V.iii.72.1 | [Regan to Gonerill] Jesters do oft prove prophets |
| LC.102 | [of the man] if men moved him, was he such a storm / As oft twixt May and April is to see |
| LC.15 | [of the woman] Oft did she heave her napkin to her eyne |
| LLL V.ii.549 | [Costard as Pompey, of Pompey] oft in field, with targe and shield |
| LLL V.ii.830 | [Rosaline to Berowne] Oft have I heard of you |
| Luc.131 | [] Despair to gain doth traffic oft for gaining |
| Luc.146 | [] Honour for wealth; and oft that wealth doth cost / The death of all, and all together lost |
| Luc.174 | [] honest fear, bewitched with lust's foul charm, / Doth too too oft betake him to retire |
| Luc.38 | [] For by our ears our hearts oft tainted be |
| Luc.70 | [of two colours] oft they interchange each other's seat |
| MA II.iii.130 | [Claudio to Leonato and Don Pedro, quoting Beatrice talking about Benedick] I ... that have so oft encountered him with scorn |
| MM I.iv.78 | [Lucio to Isabella] Our doubts are traitors / And make us lose the good we oft might win |
| MM II.i.254 | [Escalus to Elbow, of his being questioned so much about his length of service] they do you wrong to put you so oft upon't |
| MM II.i.270 | [Escalus to Justice] Mercy is not itself, that oft looks so |
| MM II.iv.117 | [Isabella to Angelo] it oft falls out / To have what we would have, we speak not what we mean |
| MM III.i.18 | [disguised Duke to Claudio] Thy best of rest is sleep, / And that thou oft provok'st |
| MM IV.i.14 | [disguised Duke to Mariana] music oft hath such a charm / To make bad good |
| MM IV.ii.147 | [Provost to disguised Duke, of Barnardine] We have very oft awaked him |
| MND I.i.239 | [Helena alone] therefore is love said to be a child / Because in choice he is so oft beguiled |
| MND III.ii.389 | [Oberon to Puck] I with the morning's love have oft made sport |
| MV I.i.144 | [Bassanio to Antonio, of finding lost arrows] by adventuring both / I oft found both |
| MV III.iii.22 | [Antonio to Solanio, of Shylock] I oft delivered from his forfeitures / Many |
| Oth I.iii.127 | [Othello to all, of Desdemona] Her father loved me, oft invited me |
| Oth I.iii.7 | [Second Senator to all] in these cases where the aim reports / 'Tis oft with difference |
| Oth II.i.101 | [Iago to Cassio, of Emilia] would she give you so much of her lips / As of her tongue she oft bestows on me, / You'd have enough |
| Oth II.i.170 | [Iago to himself, as if to Cassio] it had been better you had not kissed your three fingers so oft |
| Oth II.iii.262 | [Iago to Cassio] Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit and lost without deserving. |
| Oth III.iii.99 | [Othello to Iago, of Cassio going between Othello and Desdemona] [he] went between us very oft |
| Oth IV.i.17 | [Iago to Othello, of honour] They have it very oft that have it not |
| Oth IV.i.85 | [Iago to Othello, of Cassio] I will make him tell the tale anew, / Where, how, how oft, how long ago, and when / He hath, and is again, to cope your wife |
| Per Chorus.IV.12 | [Gower alone] That monster envy, oft the wrack / Of earned praise |
| Per V.i.159 | [Marina to Pericles, of a report of her birth] As my good nurse Lychorida hath oft / Delivered weeping |
| Per V.iii.53.1 | [Pericles to Thaisa, of Helicanus] I have named him oft |
| PP.18.41 | [] Have you not heard it said full oft, / A woman's nay doth stand for nought? |
| R3 I.iii.105 | [Queen Elizabeth to Richard] I will acquaint his majesty / Of those gross taunts that oft I have endured |
| R3 II.ii.3 | [Girl to Duchess of York] Why do you weep so oft, and beat your breast |
| R3 III.i.55 | [Richard to Cardinal Bourchier] Oft have I heard of sanctuary men, / But sanctuary children never till now |
| RJ I.iv.75 | [Mercutio to all, of ladies' lips] Which oft the angry Mab with blisters plagues |
| RJ II.iii.77 | [Romeo to Friar Laurence] Thou chidst me oft for loving Rosaline |
| RJ V.iii.121 | [Friar Laurence to himself] How oft tonight / Have my old feet stumbled at graves! |
| RJ V.iii.88 | [Romeo alone] How oft when men are at the point of death / Have they been merry! |
| Sonn.128.1 | [] How oft, when thou, my music, music play'st |
| Sonn.14.8 | [] say with Princes if it shall go well, / By oft predict that I in heaven find [i.e. common signs] [debated reading] |
| Sonn.142.7 | [] sealed false bonds of love as oft as mine |
| Sonn.77.13 | [] [of the contemplative activities referred to] These offices, so oft as thou wilt look, / Shall profit thee |
| Sonn.78.1 | [] So oft have I invoked thee for my Muse |
| TC III.ii.71 | [Cressida to Troilus] to fear the worst oft cures the worst |
| TC III.iii.20 | [Calchas to Agamemnon] Oft have you - often have you thanks therefore - / Desired my Cressid in right great exchange |
| TC III.iii.83 | [Achilles to Ulysses] >Prizes of accident as oft as merit |
| TC IV.iv.136 | [Troilus to Diomedes] This brave shall oft make thee to hide thy head |
| TC IV.v.183 | [Nestor to Hector] I have, thou gallant Trojan, seen thee oft |
| TG II.iv.101 | [Silvia to Valentine, of Proteus] His worth is warrant for his welcome hither, / If this be he you oft have wished to hear from |
| TG II.vi.15 | [Proteus alone, of Julia] Fie, fie, unreverend tongue, to call her bad / Whose sovereignty so oft thou hast preferred |
| TG V.iv.104 | [Julia to Proteus] How oft hast thou with perjury cleft the root! |
| Tim IV.iii.336 | [Titus to Apemantus] oft thou shouldst hazard thy life for thy dinner |
| Tit IV.i.109 | [Marcus to Young Lucius, of fighting] Thy father hath full oft / For his ungrateful country done the like |
| Tit IV.i.18 | [Young Lucius to Marcus] I have heard my grandsire say full oft / Extremity of griefs would make men mad |
| Tit V.i.135 | [Aaron to all] Oft have I digged up dead men from their graves |
| Tit V.ii.158 | [Titus to Lords, of catching Chiron and Demetrius] Oft have you heard me wish for such an hour |
| TN I.ii.50 | [Viola to Cesario] nature with a beauteous wall / Doth oft close in pollution |
| TN I.v.30 | [Feste to himself, of wit] Those wits that think they have thee do very oft prove / fools |
| TN III.i.122 | [Viola as Cesario to Olivia] 'tis a vulgar proof / That very oft we pity enemies |
| TN III.i.39 | [Feste to Viola as Cesario] the fool should be as oft with your master as with my mistress |
| TN III.iii.15 | [Sebastian to Antonio] I can no other answer make but thanks, / And thanks. And ever oft good turns / Are shuffled off with such uncurrent pay |
| TN III.iv.176 | [Sir Toby to Sir Andrew] it comes to pass oft that a terrible oath, with a swaggering accent sharply twanged off |
| TN III.iv.3 | [Olivia to herself, of Viola as Cesario] youth is bought more oft than begged or borrowed |
| TN III.iv.32 | [Olivia to Malvolio] Why dost thou ... kiss thy hand so oft? |
| TNK V.iii.103.1 | [Emilia to herself] our reasons are not prophets / When oft our fancies are |
| TS II.i.53 | [Petruchio to Baptista] to make mine eye the witness / Of that report which I so oft have heard |
| Ven.1068 | [] For oft the eye mistakes, the brain being troubled |
| Ven.567 | [] Things out of hope are compassed oft with vent'ring |
| WT I.ii.158 | [Leontes to Hermione] my dagger muzzled, / Lest it should bite its master and so prove, / As ornaments oft does, too dangerous |
| WT I.ii.262 | [Camillo to Leontes] if ever fearful / To do a thing where I the issue doubted ... 'twas a fear / Which oft infects the wisest |
| WT IV.iv.797 | [Clown to Shepherd, of Autolycus] though authority be a stubborn bear, yet he is oft led by the nose with gold |