| 2H4 III.ii.294 | [Falstaff alone, of Shallow] This same starved justice hath done nothing but prate to me of the wildness of his youth |
| CE II.ii.202 | [Luciana to Dromio of Syracuse] Why pratest thou to thyself, and answerest not? |
| Cor III.iii.83.2 | [Coriolanus to Brutus] What do you prate of service? |
| Cor V.iii.159 | [Volumnia to and of Coriolanus] he lets me prate / Like one i'th' stocks |
| E3 III.iii.137 | [Philip to King John] Father, range your battles, prate no more |
| Ham V.i.276 | [Hamlet to Laertes] if thou prate of mountains |
| Mac II.i.58 | [Macbeth alone] Thy very stones prate of my whereabout |
| MW I.iv.118 | [Mistress Quickly to Caius] We must give folks leave to prate |
| MW III.iii.44 | [Falstaff to Mistress Ford] I cannot cog, I cannot prate, |
| Oth I.ii.6.2 | [Iago to Othello, of Roderigo] he prated / And spoke such scurvy and provoking terms / Against your honour |
| Oth II.i.218 | [Iago to Roderigo, of Desdemona and Othello] will she love him still for prating? |
| Oth II.iii.145 | [Cassio to Roderigo] Dost thou prate, rogue? |
| R3 I.iii.349 | [First Murderer to Richard] We will not stand to prate; / Talkers are no good doers |
| Tem II.i.268 | [Antonio to Sebastian] lords that can prate / As amply and unnecessarily / As this Gonzalo |
| TNK V.i.119 | [Palamon to Venus] I am / To those that prate and have done, no companion |
| WT III.ii.40 | [Hermione to all, of herself] here standing / To prate and talk for life and honour |