| 2H4 epilogue.7 | [Epilogue] But to the purpose, and so to the venture |
| 2H4 IV.i.138 | [Westmorland to the rebel leaders, of what he has been saying] this is mere digression from my purpose |
| AW V.iii.241 | [King to Parolles] Come, come, to th'purpose |
| AYL V.ii.51 | [Rosalind as Ganymede to Orlando] Know of me then, for now I speak to some purpose |
| Cor II.i.81 | [Menenius to Sicinius and Brutus] When you speak best unto the purpose, it is not worth the wagging of your beards |
| Cor III.ii.89.1 | [Menenius to Coriolanus, of the Citizens] they have pardons, being asked, as free / As words to little purpose |
| Cym II.iii.55 | [Cymbeline to all, of Lucius] Albeit he comes on angry purpose now |
| Cym IV.i.23 | [Cloten alone] My horse is tied up safe, out, sword, and to a sore purpose! |
| Cym V.v.178.2 | [Cymbeline to Iachimo] to th'purpose [i.e. come to the point] |
| H5 III.vii.65 | [Constable to Dauphin, of the Dauphin's aphorism] Yet do I not use my horse for my mistress, or any such proverb so little kin to the purpose |
| Ham II.ii.278 | [Hamlet to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern] [say] ... anything but to th'purpose |
| Ham III.ii.20 | [Hamlet to Players] anything so o'erdone is from the purpose of playing |
| JC III.i.146 | [Cassius to Brutus] my misgiving still / Falls shrewdly to the purpose |
| KL II.iv.176.2 | [Regan to Lear] Good sir, to the purpose |
| MA II.iii.18 | [Benedick alone, of Claudio] He was wont to speak plain and to the purpose |
| MM II.i.111 | [Escalus to Pompey] Come, you are a tedious fool. To the purpose. |
| RJ II.iv.43 | [Mercutio to Benvolio] Thisbe [had] a grey eye or so, but not to the purpose |
| TC I.iii.264 | [Aeneas to Agamemnon, of Priam] He bade me take a trumpet, / And to this purpose speak |
| TG IV.i.53 | [First Outlaw to Valentine] But to the purpose |
| TN I.iii.19 | [Maria to Sir Toby, of why he is praising Sir Andrew] What's that to the purpose? |
| WT I.ii.100 | [Hermione to Leontes] But once before I spoke to th'purpose? |