| 1H6 III.i.37 | [Winchester to all, of Gloucester] no one should sway but he |
| 1H6 III.ii.135 | [Talbot to Burgundy, of Bedford] A gentler heart did never sway in court |
| 3H6 II.vi.14 | [Clifford alone, as if to the King] hadst thou swayed as kings should do |
| 3H6 III.iii.76 | [Queen to Lewis] usurpers sway the rule awhile |
| AYL III.ii.4 | [Orlando alone, of Rosalind] Thy huntress' name that my full life doth sway |
| Cor II.i.196.1 | [Coriolanus to Volumnia, of the patricians] I had rather be their servant in my way / Than sway with them in theirs [i.e. hold sway over them] |
| JC II.i.20 | [Brutus alone, of Caesar] I have not known when his affections swayed / More than his reason |
| KJ I.i.13 | [Chatillon to King John, of the countries ruled by John] lay aside the sword / Which sways usurpingly these several titles |
| KJ II.i.344 | [King Philip to King John, of his rule] That sways the earth this climate overlooks |
| KL I.ii.50 | [Gloucester reading Edgar's supposed letter] the oppression of aged tyranny, who sways not as it hath power but as it is suffered |
| MA IV.i.199 | [Friar to Leonato] let my counsel sway you in this case |
| MV I.iii.90 | [Antonio to Shylock, of Jacob's strategy with the sheep] swayed and fashioned by the hand of heaven |
| MV IV.i.51 | [Shylock to Duke] affection, / Master of passion, sways it to the mood / Of what it likes or loathes |
| TC V.ii.114 | [Cressida to herself] Minds swayed by eyes are full of turpitude |
| Tim III.vi.111 | [Lucullus to Lords, of Timon] He's but a mad lord, and naught but humours sways him |
| TN IV.i.51 | [Olivia to Sebastian] Let thy fair wisdom, not thy passion, sway / In this uncivil and unjust extent / Against thy peace |
| TN IV.iii.17 | [Sebastian alone, of Olivia being mad] yet if 'twere so, / She could not sway her house |