| 1H4 I.i.101 | [King Henry to all] we must neglect / Our holy purpose to Jerusalem |
| 1H4 I.i.28 | [King Henry to all] But this our purpose now is twelve month old |
| 1H4 I.iii.215 | [Worcester to Hotspur] You start away / And lend no ear unto my purposes |
| 1H4 II.iii.8 | [Hotspur to himself, reading from a letter] The purpose you undertake is dangerous |
| 1H4 IV.i.41 | [Hotspur to Worcester] the King is certainly possessed / Of all our purposes |
| 1H4 IV.iii.111 | [Hotspur to Blunt, of King Henry] in the morning early shall mine uncle / Bring him our purposes |
| 1H4 V.i.4 | [Prince Hal to King Henry] The southern wind / Doth play the trumpet to his purposes |
| 1H6 I.i.133 | [Third Messenger to all, of Falstaff's position in relation to Talbot's forces] placed behind / With purpose to relieve and follow them [i.e. as support forces] |
| 1H6 V.i.36 | [King to Ambassadors] Your purpose is both good and reasonable |
| 1H6 V.iv.22 | [Pucelle to all, of the Shepherd] You have suborned this man / Of purpose to obscure my noble birth |
| 2H4 II.ii.171 | [Prince Henry to Poins] in everything the purpose must weigh with the folly |
| 2H4 IV.i.173 | [Archbishop to Westmorland] To us and to our purposes confined |
| 2H4 IV.ii.56 | [Prince John to Archbishop] My father's purposes have been mistook |
| 2H4 IV.v.209 | [King Henry IV to Prince Henry] I ... had a purpose now / To lead out many to the Holy Land |
| 2H4 V.ii.5 | [Warwick to Lord Chief Justice, of King Henry IV] to our purposes he lives no more |
| 2H6 III.i.256 | [Suffolk to Queen, of Gloucester] His guilt should be but idly posted over / Because his purpose is not executed |
| 3H6 III.ii.133 | [Richard alone, of those standing between him and the crown] A cold premeditation for my purpose! |
| AC I.iii.14 | [Antony to Cleopatra] I am sorry to give breathing to my purpose |
| AC I.iii.67 | [Antony to Cleopatra] be prepared to know / The purposes I bear |
| AC II.ii.150 | [Antony to Caesar] May I never / To this good purpose ... / Dream of impediment! |
| AC II.iv.8 | [Lepidus to Maecenas and Agrippa] My purposes do draw me much about |
| AC II.vi.116 | [Menas to Enobarbus, of Antony's marriage to Octavia] I think the policy of that purpose made more in the marriage than the love of the parties |
| AC II.vi.4 | [Casesar to Pompey] therefore have we / Our written purposes before us sent |
| AC II.vi.51 | [Antony to Pompey] thanks to you, / That called me timelier than my purpose hither |
| AC V.ii.131 | [Caesar to Cleopatra] you shall bereave yourself / Of my good purposes |
| AC V.ii.334 | [Caesar to all, of Cleopatra] She levelled at our purposes |
| AW III.ii.70 | [Second Lord to Countess, of Bertram's intention to be a soldier] Such is his noble purpose |
| AW III.v.69.1 | [Helena to Widow, of Diana] Maybe the amorous Count solicits her / In the unlawful purpose? |
| AW III.vii.29 | [Widow to Helena] Now I see / The bottom of your purpose |
| AW IV.i.19 | [First Lord to all] so we seem to know is to know straight our purpose |
| AW IV.i.35 | [Parolles to himself, of recovering his drum] knowing I had no such purpose |
| AW IV.i.84 | [Parolles to all] all the secrets of our camp I'll show, / Their force, their purposes |
| AYL I.i.130 | [Oliver to Charles, of Orlando's intention to wrestle] I had myself notice of my brother's purpose herein |
| AYL IV.ii.6 | [Jaques to Lord, of processing in with a deer] Have you no song, forester, for this purpose? |
| CE IV.i.98 | [Antipholus of Ephesus to Dromio of Syracuse] I sent thee for a rope, / And told thee to what purpose, and what end |
| Cor I.vi.50 | [Cominius to Martius] We have at disadvantage fought, and did / Retire to win our purpose |
| Cor II.i.232 | [Sicinius to Brutus, of Coriolanus not begging the citizens' voices] I wish no better / Than have him hold that purpose and to put it / In execution |
| Cor II.ii.150 | [Menenius to Coriolanus] We recommend to you, Tribunes of the People / Our purpose to them |
| Cor III.i.148 | [Coriolanus to Brutus] Purpose so barred, it follows / Nothing is done to purpose |
| Cor IV.v.122 | [Aufidius to Coriolanus] I had purpose / Once more to hew thy target from thy brawn |
| Cym I.v.136 | [Posthumus to Iachimo] you bear a graver purpose |
| Cym I.v.39 | [Frenchman to Posthumus, of the latter's quarrel] it had been pity you should have been put together, with so mortal a purpose as then each bore |
| Cym III.iv.121 | [Pisanio to Innogen] My purpose would prove well |
| Cym III.iv.29 | [Posthumus to Pisanio, of meeting Innogen at Milford Haven] she hath my letter for the purpose |
| Cym V.i.22 | [Posthumus alone, to the gods] Hear patiently my purpose |
| Cym V.v.253 | [Cornelius to Cymbeline, of the Queen] dreading that her purpose / Was of more danger |
| Cym V.v.284 | [Pisanio to Cymbeline, of Cloten] away he posts / With unchaste purpose |
| Cym V.v.411 | [Posthumus to Cymbeline, of taking a soldier's role] 'twas a fitment for / The purpose I then followed |
| Cym V.v.59 | [Cornelius to Cymbeline, of the Queen] she ... opened (in despite / Of heaven and men) her purposes |
| H5 II.chorus.15 | [Chorus] The French ... with pale policy / Seek to divert the English purposes |
| H5 II.ii.106 | [King Henry to Scroop] Treason and murder ever kept together, / As two yoke-devils sworn to either's purpose |
| H5 II.ii.151 | [Scroop to King Henry] Our purposes God justly hath discovered |
| H5 III.ii.15 | [Pistol to all] If wishes would prevail with me, / My purpose should not fail with me |
| H8 I.ii.209.1 | [Surveyor to King Henry, of Buckingham] he would outgo / His father by as much as a performance / Does an irresolute purpose |
| H8 V.ii.13 | [Cranmer to himself, of his situation] This is of purpose laid by some that hate me |
| Ham I.ii.30 | [Claudius to all, of the King of Norway] scarcely hears / Of this his nephew's purpose |
| Ham II.ii.451 | [Hamlet to First Player, quoting lines from a play about Pyrrhus] whose sable arms, / Black as his purpose, did the night resemble |
| Ham III.i.27 | [Claudius to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, of Hamlet and the Players] drive his purpose into these delights |
| Ham III.ii.198 | [First Player as King to his Queen] Purpose is but the slave to memory |
| Ham III.ii.205 | [First Player as King to his Queen] What to ourselves in passion we propose, / The passion ending, doth the purpose lose |
| Ham III.iv.112 | [Ghost to Hamlet] This visitation / Is but to whet thy almost blunted purpose |
| Ham IV.iii.49 | [Claudius to Hamlet] if thou knewest our purposes |
| Ham IV.vii.161 | [Claudius to Laertes, of killing Hamlet by poison] If he by chance escape your venomed stuck, / Our purpose may hold there |
| Ham V.ii.173 | [Hamlet to Osrick, of fighting Laertes] the King hold his purpose, I will win for him an I can |
| Ham V.ii.195 | [Hamlet to Lord] I am constant to my purposes |
| Ham V.ii.378 | [Horatio to all] So shall you hear / Of ... purposes mistook / Fallen on th'inventors' heads |
| JC I.iii.35 | [Cicero to Casca] men may construe things after their fashion, / Clean from the purpose of the things themselves |
| JC II.i.178 | [Brutus to Cassius, of being moderate] This shall make / Our purpose necessary, and not envious |
| JC II.i.225 | [Brutus to all] Let not our looks put on our purposes |
| JC III.i.17 | [Cassius to Brutus] I fear our purpose is discoverèd |
| JC III.i.23 | [Brutus to Cassius] Popilius Lena speaks not of our purposes |
| KJ II.i.28 | [Austria to Arthur, of England] secure / And confident from foreign purposes |
| KJ II.i.580 | [Bastard alone, of commodity] Makes it take head from all indifferency, / From all direction, purpose, course, intent |
| KJ III.i.274 | [Cardinal Pandulph to King Philip] The better act of purposes mistook / Is to mistake again |
| KJ III.iii.47 | [King John to Hubert] idle merriment, / A passion hateful to my purposes |
| KJ IV.ii.48 | [Pembroke to King John, of himself] that am the tongue of these / To sound the purposes of all their hearts |
| KJ IV.ii.77 | [Salisbury to Pembroke] The colour of the King doth come and go / Between his purpose and his conscience |
| KJ IV.iii.63 | [Salisbury to all, of Arthur's death] The practice, and the purpose, of the King |
| KJ V.i.76 | [Bastard to King John, of the French] They saw we had a purpose of defence |
| KJ V.vii.86 | [Salisbury to Bastard, of peace offers] As we with honour and respect may take, / With purpose presently to leave this war |
| KL I.i.36 | [Lear to all] we shall express our darker purpose |
| KL I.ii.84 | [Edmund to Gloucester, of Edgar] if you violently proceed against him, mistaking his purpose |
| KL I.iv.235 | [Gonerill to Lear] I do beseech you / To understand my purposes aright |
| KL I.iv.273 | [Lear to Gonerill, as if to Nature] Suspend thy purpose if thou didst intend / To make this creature fruitful |
| KL I.iv.69 | [Lear to Third Knight, of the servants' neglect] which I have rather blamed as mine own jealous curiosity than as a very pretence and purpose of unkindness [F; Q purport] |
| KL II.i.110 | [Cornwall to Gloucester] Make your own purpose / How in my strength you please |
| KL II.i.49 | [Edmund to Gloucester, of Edgar] how loathly opposite I stood / To his unnatural purpose |
| KL II.iv.3 | [Gentleman to Lear, of Regan and Cornwall] The night before there was no purpose in them / Of this remove |
| KL IV.v.20 | [Regan to Oswald, of Gonerill] Might not you / Transport her purposes by word? |
| KL V.i.1 | [Edmund to Gentleman] Know of the Duke if his last purpose hold |
| KL V.iii.116 | [Albany to Herald, of disguised Edgar] Ask him his purposes |
| LLL II.i.109 | [Princess to King] Vouchsafe to read the purpose of my coming |
| LLL IV.i.29 | [Princess to Forester, of shooting at a deer] If wounding, then it was to show my skill, / That more for praise than purpose meant to kill |
| LLL V.i.130 | [Holofernes to all, of Mote as Hercules] His enter and exit shall be strangling a snake; and I will have an apology for that purpose |
| LLL V.ii.122 | [Boyet to Princess, of the Lords] Their purpose is to parley, court, and dance |
| LLL V.ii.177 | [Rosaline to Boyet] If they do speak our language, 'tis our will / That some plain man recount their purposes |
| LLL V.ii.736 | [King to Princess] The extreme parts of time extremely forms / All causes to the purpose of his speed |
| Luc.1047 | [Lucrece] I feared by Tarquin's falchion to be slain, / Yet for the selfsame purpose seek a knife |
| Luc.113 | [of Tarquin] Far from the purpose of his coming thither / He makes excuses for his being there |
| Luc.220 | [Tarquin, of Collatine] Will he not wake ... this vile purpose to prevent? |
| MA V.iv.104 | [Benedick to Don Pedro] since I do purpose to marry, I will / think nothing to any purpose that the world can say against it [second instance] |
| Mac I.v.44 | [Lady Macbeth alone, as if to spirits] Stop up the access and passage to remorse, / That no compunctious visitings of nature / Shake my fell purpose |
| Mac I.vi.21 | [King to Lady Macbeth, of Macbeth] We coursed him at the heels and had a purpose / To be his purveyor |
| Mac II.ii.52.2 | [Lady Macbeth to Macbeth] Infirm of purpose! |
| Mac IV.i.144 | [Macbeth to himself] The flighty purpose never is o'ertook / Unless the deed go with it |
| Mac IV.i.153 | [Macbeth to himself, of destroying Macduff's family] This deed I'll do before this purpose cool |
| MM I.i.73 | [Angelo to Duke] The heavens give safety to your purposes! |
| MM I.iii.4 | [Duke to Friar Thomas] Why I desire thee / To give me secret harbour hath a purpose / More grave and wrinkled than the aims and ends / Of burning youth |
| MM I.iii.54 | [Duke to Friar Thomas] Hence shall we see, / If power change purpose, what our seemers be |
| MM II.i.13 | [Escalus to Angelo] the resolute acting of your blood / Could have attained th'effect of your own purpose |
| MM II.i.142 | [Pompey to Froth, of Escalus] look upon his honour; 'tis for a good purpose |
| MM II.iv.148 | [Angelo to Isabella] My words express my purpose |
| MM III.i.164 | [disguised Duke to Claudio] Angelo had never the purpose to corrupt her |
| MM IV.v.2 | [Duke to Friar Peter] The provost knows our purpose and our plot |
| MM IV.vi.4.1 | [Isabella to Mariana] I am advised ... to veil full purpose |
| MM V.i.102 | [Isabella to Duke, of Angelo] His purpose surfeiting |
| MM V.i.310 | [Escalus to disguised Duke] we will know his purpose |
| MM V.i.393 | [Duke to Isabella, of Claudio] It was the swift celerity of his death ... / That brained my purpose |
| MND IV.i.160 | [Demetrius to Theseus, of Hermia and Lysander ]fair Helen told me ... / Of this their purpose hither to this wood |
| MV I.i.133 | [Bassanio to Antonio] from your love I have a warranty / To unburden all my plots and purposes |
| MV I.i.91 | [Gratiano to Antonio, of the way some men behave] With purpose to be dressed in an opinion / Of wisdom |
| MV I.iii.95 | [Antonio to Bassanio, of Shylock]The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose |
| MV III.ii.227 | [Lorenzo to Bassanio] My purpose was not to have seen you here |
| MV IV.i.244 | [Portia as Balthasar to all] the intent and purpose of the law / Hath full relation to the penalty |
| MW II.ii.217 | [Ford as Brook to Falstaff] here is the heart of my purpose |
| MW IV.iv.75 | [Ford to all, of Falstaff] He'll tell me all his purpose |
| MW IV.vi.3 | [Fenton to Host] Assist me in my purpose |
| MW V.v.196 | [Mistress Page to Page] I knew of your purpose |
| Oth I.i.12 | [Iago to Roderigo, of Othello] loving his own pride and purposes |
| Oth I.iii.385 | [Iago alone, of Othello] The better shall my purpose work on him |
| Oth I.iii.39 | [Messenger to Duke, of the Turkish fleet] bearing with frank appearance / Their purposes toward Cyprus |
| Oth II.iii.227 | [Iago to Othello, of the fugitive] He, swift of foot, / Outran my purpose |
| Oth III.iii.313 | [Emilia to Iago, of the handkerchief] If it be not for some purpose of import, / Give't me again |
| Oth III.iii.33 | [Cassio to Desdemona] I am very ill at ease, / Unfit for mine own purposes |
| Oth IV.ii.213 | [Iago to Roderigo, of his qualities] I mean purpose, courage, and valour |
| Oth V.ii.318 | [Cassio to Othello, of Iago and the handkerchief] he dropped it for a special purpose / Which wrought to his desire |
| Per IV.i.8.1 | [Dionyza to Leonine] be / A soldier to thy purpose |
| Per IV.ii.142 | [Marina to Bawd] Diana, aid my purpose! |
| Per IV.vi.197 | [Boult to Marina, of Pandar and Bawd] I will make them acquainted with your purpose |
| Per V.i.251 | [Pericles to all] My purpose was for Tarsus |
| R2 I.iii.188 | [King Richard to Bolingbroke and Mowbray] never by advised purpose meet / To plot, contrive, or complot any ill / 'Gainst us |
| R2 I.iii.253 | [John of Gaunt to Bolingbroke] to what purpose dost thou hoard thy words |
| R2 V.ii.34 | [York to Duchess of York] had not God for some strong purpose steeled / The hearts of men, they must perforce have melted |
| R2 V.ii.55 | [Aumerle to York, of going to Oxford] If God prevent not, I purpose so |
| R3 III.i.171 | [Buckingham to Catesby] sound thou Lord Hastings / How doth he stand affected to our purpose |
| R3 III.iv.15 | [Hastings to all, of Richard] for his purpose in the coronation, / I have not sounded him |
| R3 III.v.57 | [Richard to Lord Mayor, of Hastings] I would have had you heard / The traitor speak, and timorously confess / The manner and the purpose of his treason |
| R3 III.vii.18 | [Buckingham to Richard] I ... left nothing fitting for your purpose / Untouched |
| R3 V.iii.275 | [Ratcliffe to King Richard, of Surrey] He smiled and said, ‘The better for our purpose’ |
| RJ II.ii.144 | [Juliet to Romeo] If that thy bent of love be honourable, / Thy purpose marriage |
| Sonn.112.13 | [] You are so strongly in my purpose bred / That all the world besides me thinks y'are dead |
| Sonn.126.7 | [of Nature] She keeps thee to this purpose, that her skill / May Time disgrace, and wretched minute kill |
| Sonn.20.12 | [] By adding one thing to my purpose nothing |
| Sonn.21.14 | [] I will not praise that purpose not to sell |
| TC I.iii.128 | [Ulysses to Agamemnon] this neglection of degree it is / That by a pace goes backward in a purpose / It hath to climb |
| TC I.iii.323 | [Ulysses to all] This challenge ... / Relates in purpose only to Achilles |
| TC III.ii.135 | [Cressida to Troilus] 'Twas not my purpose thus to beg a kiss |
| TC III.iii.50 | [Agamemnon to Ulysses] We'll execute your purpose |
| TC IV.i.37 | [Paris to Aeneas, of the King] His purpose meets you |
| TC IV.v.262 | [Ajax to Achilles] let these threats alone, / Till accident or purpose bring you to't |
| TC V.i.35 | [Achilles to Patroclus] I am thwarted quite / From my great purpose in tomorrow's battle |
| TC V.iii.23 | [Cassandra to Hector] It is the purpose that makes strong the vow; / But vows to every purpose must not hold |
| Tem I.ii.129 | [Prospero to Miranda, of Antonio] Fated to th' purpose |
| Tem I.ii.129 | [Prospero to Miranda] one midnight / Fated to th'purpose, did Antonio open / The gates of Milan; and, i'th' dead of darkness, / The ministers for th'purpose hurried thence / Me and thy crying self |
| Tem I.ii.131 | [Prospero to Miranda, of Antonio's plan] The ministers for th'purpose hurried thence / Me and thy crying self |
| Tem I.ii.357 | [Miranda to Caliban] I endowed thy purposes / With words that made them known |
| Tem II.i.228 | [Antonio to Sebastian] If you but knew how you the purpose cherish / Whiles thus you mock it! |
| Tem III.iii.13 | [Antonio aside to Sebastian] Do not, for one repulse, forego the purpose / That you resolved t'effect |
| Tem V.i.29 | [Prospero to Ariel, of the lords] They being penitent, / The sole drift of my purpose doth extend / Not a frown further |
| TG II.vi.42 | [Proteus alone] Love, lend me wings to make my purpose swift |
| Tim III.i.26 | [Lucullus to Flaminius, of Timon] Many a time and often I ha' ... come again to supper to him of purpose to have him spend less |
| Tim IV.iii.391 | [Timon to Apemantus, as if to gold] Thou visible god ... that speakest with every tongue, / To every purpose! |
| Tim V.i.15 | [Painter to Poet, of expressing their loves to Timon] It ... is very likely to load our purposes with what they travail for |
| Tit II.iii.84 | [Lavinia to Bassianus, of Tamora's meeting with Aaron] This valley fits the purpose passing well |
| TN II.iii.160 | [Maria to Sir Toby, of his interpretation of her plan] My purpose is indeed a horse of that colour |
| TN III.iv.250 | [Viola as Cesario to Sir Toby, of her offence to Sir Andrew] It is something of my negligence, nothing of my purpose |
| TNK epilogue.14 | [Epilogue to audience, of the play pleasing them] For to that honest purpose it was meant ye |
| TNK V.ii.30 | [Doctor to Wooer, of the Gaoler's Daughter's age] But that's all one, 'tis nothing to our purpose |
| WT II.iii.150 | [Lord to Leontes] we beg ... that you do change this purpose |
| WT IV.iv.152 | [Florizel to Perdita] you have / As little skill to fear as I have purpose / To put you to't |
| WT IV.iv.39 | [Perdita to Florizel] you must change this purpose / Or I my life |
| WT IV.iv.539 | [Camillo to Florizel] This follows, if you will not change your purpose / But undergo this flight |
| WT V.i.36 | [Paulina to Leontes] the gods / Will have fulfilled their secret purposes |