| Cor IV.v.71 | [Coriolanus to Aufidius] The painful service, / The extreme dangers ... are requited |
| E3 IV.ii.44 | [Percy to King Edward] by the fruitful service of your peers / And painful travail of the Queen herself, / That, big with child, was every day in arms |
| LLL II.i.23 | [Princess to Boyet, of the King's vow to allow no women to the court] Till painful study shall outwear three years [also: uncomfortable] |
| Per Chorus.III.15 | [Gower alone, of searching for Pericles] By many a dern and painful perch |
| Sonn.25.9 | [] The painful warrior famoused for worth |
| Tem III.i.1 | [Ferdinand alone] There be some sports are painful [or: sense 2] |
| TS V.ii.148 | [Katherina to Widow, of her husband's role] commits his body / To painful labour |