| 1H6 IV.i.7 | [Gloucester to Governor of Paris, of Henry] Esteem ... none your foes but such as shall pretend / Malicious practices against his state |
| 2H6 III.i.46 | [Suffolk to Queen, of Gloucester] The Duchess by his subornation ... began her devilish practices |
| AYL II.iii.26 | [Adam to Orlando, of Oliver] I overheard him, and his practices |
| Cor IV.i.33.1 | [Coriolanus to Volumnia, of himself] be caught / With cautelous baits and practice |
| H5 II.ii.90 | [King Henry to all, of Cambridge] this man / Hath ... sworn unto the practices of France, / To kill us |
| H8 III.ii.29.1 | [Surrey to all, of Wolsey] How came / His practices to light? |
| H8 V.i.128 | [King Henry to Cranmer] Your enemies are many, and not small; their practices / Must bear the same proportion |
| Ham IV.vii.66 | [Claudius to Laertes, of Hamlet] even his mother shall uncharge the practice |
| Ham V.ii.311 | [Laertes to Hamlet] The foul practice / Hath turned itself on me |
| KJ IV.iii.63 | [Salisbury to Bastard, of Arthur's apparent murder] The practice, and the purpose, of the King |
| KL I.ii.178 | [Edmund alone, of Edgar] on whose foolish honesty / My practices ride easy |
| KL II.i.72 | [Edmund to Gloucester, as if Edgar to Edmund] thy suggestion, plot, and damned practice [F; Q pretence] |
| KL II.iv.110 | [Lear to Gloucester, of Regan and Cornwall] this remotion of the Duke and her / Is practice only [i.e. is merely a stratagem] [F; Q practise] |
| MM V.i.123 | [Duke to Isabella] This needs must be a practice |
| MM V.i.237.1 | [Angelo to Duke] Let me have way ... / To find this practice out |
| Oth III.iv.137 | [Desdemona to Emilia, of Othello] some unhatched practice ... / Hath puddled his clear spirit |
| PP.18.9 | [Pilgrim, advising a lover] Smooth not thy tongue with filed talk, / Lest she some subtle practice smell |
| Tit V.ii.77 | [Tamora to Chiron and Demetrius] I'll find some cunning practice out of hand / To scatter and disperse the giddy Goths |
| WT III.ii.165 | [Leontes to all, of Camillo and Polixenes] He ... to my kingly guest / Unclasped my practice |