| Cym I.vii.70 | [Iachimo to Innogen, of Posthumus' companion] who knows / By history, report, or his own proof, / What woman is |
| Cym III.iii.27 | [Guiderius to Belarius] Out of your proof you speak |
| Ham III.ii.179 | [Second Player as Queen to her King] what my love is, proof hath made you know |
| JC II.i.21 | [Brutus alone] 'tis a common proof, / That lowliness is young ambition's ladder |
| R3 II.iii.43 | [Third Citizen to other Citizens] men's minds mistrust / Ensuing danger; as by proof we see / The water swell before a boisterous storm |
| RJ I.i.170 | [Benvolio to Romeo] Alas that love, so gentle in his view, / Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof! |
| Sonn.129.11 | [of lust] A bliss in proof |
| TN III.i.121 | [Viola as Cesario to Olivia] 'tis a vulgar proof / That very oft we pity enemies |