| 2H6 II.i.199 | [King to all, of the conspirators] we ... poise the cause in Justice' equal scales |
| AW II.iii.153 | [King to Bertram, of Helena] poising us in her defective scale [i.e. adding my weight to make good her deficiency] |
| Oth I.iii.324 | [Iago to Roderigo] If the beam of our lives had not one scale of reason to poise another of sensuality |
| RJ I.ii.94 | [Benvolio to Romeo, of Rosaline] Herself poised with herself in either eye |
| TC I.iii.339 | [Nestor to Ulysses, of Hector's challenge] Our imputation shall be oddly poised / In this willed action |
| TC IV.i.66 | [Diomedes to Paris] Both merits poised, each weighs nor less nor more |
| TNK I.i.86 | [Second Queen to Hippolyta] That equally canst poise sternness with pity |