| 2H6 IV.ix.25 | [Messenger to King, of the Duke of York] with a puissant and a mighty power |
| 3H6 II.i.206 | [Messenger to Warwick] The Queen is coming with a puissant host |
| 3H6 V.i.6 | [Second Messenger to Warwick, of Montague's whereabouts] By this at Daintry, with a puissant troop |
| 3H6 V.ii.31 | [Somerset to Warwick] The Queen from France hath brought a puissant power |
| E3 III.i.54 | [King John to all] At sea we are as puissant as the force / Of Agamemnon |
| E3 IV.iv.63 | [Prince Edward to Audley, of King John] that same king / Hath but the puissant legion of one king |
| E3 IV.vi.38 | [Philip to King John, of Prince Edward and his men] Some twenty naked starvelings with small flints / Hath driven back a puissant host of men |
| H5 I.ii.116 | [Ely to King Henry, of his predecessors] with your puissant arm renew their feats |
| H5 IV.i.40 | [Pistol to disguised King Henry] Trail'st thou the puissant pike? [i.e. are you in the infantry?] |
| JC III.i.33 | [Metellus to Caesar] Most high, most mighty, and most puissant Caesar |
| KL V.iii.214 | [Edgar to Albany, of Kent] His grief grew puissant |
| R3 IV.iv.434 | [Ratcliffe to King Richard] on the western coast / Rideth a puissant navy |