| 2H4 IV.v.189 | [King Henry IV to Prince Henry, of getting the crown] all the soil of the achievement goes / With me into the earth |
| H8 I.ii.26 | [Queen Katherine to Wolsey, of King Henry] Whose honour heaven shield from soil! |
| Ham I.iii.15 | [Laertes to Ophelia, of Hamlet] Perhaps he loves you now, / And now no soil nor cautel doth besmirch / The virtue of his will |
| Ham I.iv.20 | [Hamlet to Horatio, of outsiders' views of the Danes] They clepe us drunkards and with swinish phrase / Soil our addition |
| Ham II.i.40 | [Polonius to Reynaldo] a thing a little soiled i'th' working |
| JC I.ii.42 | [Brutus to Cassius] Conceptions only proper to myself, / Which give some soil ... to my behaviours |
| LLL II.i.47 | [Maria to Princess, of Longaville's wit] The only soil of his fair virtue's gloss |
| MA III.ii.5 | [Don Pedro to Claudio, of Claudio's offer to escort him] that would be as great a soil in the new gloss of your marriage |
| TC II.ii.149 | [Paris to Priam, of Helen] I would have the soil of her fair rape / Wiped off in honourable keeping her |
| TC V.ii.137 | [Ulysses to Troilus, of Cressida] What hath she done ... that can soil our mothers? |
| Tim III.v.16 | [Alcibiades to Senators, of his friend's transgression] Nor did he soil the fact with cowardice |
| TNK IV.ii.59 | [Emilia to herself] my unspotted youth must now be soiled / With blood of princes |