| AYL I.i.36 | [Orlando to Oliver] What prodigal portion have I spent |
| E3 III.iii.123 | [Audley to French peers] why do you follow him / That is so prodigal to spend your lives? |
| H8 V.v.12 | [King Henry to Godparents] you've been too prodigal |
| Ham I.iii.36 | [Laertes to Ophelia] The chariest maid is prodigal enough / If she unmask her beauty to the moon |
| LLL V.ii.64 | [Rosaline to Princess, of Berowne] I would make him ... spend his prodigal wits in bootless rhymes |
| MV I.i.129 | [Bassanio to Antonio] the great debts / Wherein my time, something too prodigal, / Hath left me gaged |
| MV II.v.15 | [Shylock to Jessica, of going to supper] I'll go in hate to feed upon / The prodigal Christian |