| 1H4 V.ii.60 | [Vernon to Hotspur] And, which became him like a prince indeed, / He made a blushing cital of himself |
| 1H6 III.ii.54 | [] ot to Pucelle, of Bedford] Becomes it thee to taunt his valiant age |
| 1H6 V.iii.170 | [Suffolk to Reignier] Set this diamond safe / In golden palaces, as it becomes |
| 2H4 II.i.64 | [Lord Chief Justice to Falstaff, of a brawl] Doth this become your place, your time, and business? |
| 2H4 III.i.82 | [Warwick to King Henry IV, of prophecies] Such things become the hatch and brood of time |
| 2H4 V.v.51 | [King Henry V to Falstaff] How ill white hairs become a fool and jester |
| 2H6 II.i.27 | [Suffolk to Gloucester, of showing malice to the Cardinal] no more than well becomes / So good a quarrel and so bad a peer |
| 3H6 II.ii.85 | [Queen to Edward] Becomes it thee to be thus bold in terms / Before thy sovereign |
| AC I.iv.21 | [Caesar to Lepidus, of Antony's behaviour] Say this becomes him - /As his composure must be rare indeed / Whom these things cannot blemish |
| AC I.v.60 | [Cleopatra as if to Antony] Be'st thou sad or merry, / The violence of either thee becomes, / So does it no man else |
| AC II.vi.79 | [Pompey to Enobarbus] Enjoy thy plainness; / It nothing ill becomes thee |
| AC IV.xv.79 | [Cleopatra to Charmian and Iras] impatience does / Become a dog that's mad |
| AW III.vi.64 | [Bertran to Parolles] the Duke shall ... extend to you what further becomes his greatness |
| AYL I.i.67 | [Orlando to Oliver] allow me such exercises as may become a gentleman |
| AYL I.i.74 | [Orlando to Oliver] I will no further offend you than becomes me for my good |
| AYL III.iv.3 | [Celia as Aliena to Rosalind as Ganymede] tears do not become a man |
| AYL V.iv.205 | [Rosalind as Epilogue] to beg will not become me |
| Cor II.i.118 | [Menenius to all] Brings 'a victory in his pocket, the wounds become him [i.e. provided he brings victory] |
| Cor III.iii.56 | [Menenius to Plebeians, of Coriolanus] Do not take / His rougher accents for malicious sounds, / But ... such as become a soldier |
| Cym I.ii.26 | [Posthumus to Innogen] more tenderness / Than doth become a man |
| Cym III.i.53 | [Cymbeline to Lucius, of the Roman tribute] which to shake off / Becomes a warlike people |
| Cym V.v.22 | [Cymbeline to Belarius, Guiderius, and Arviragus] I ... will fit you / With dignities becoming your estates |
| H5 III.v.55.2 | [Constable to French King, of defeating the English] This becomes the great |
| H8 V.iii.63 | [Cranmer to Gardiner] Love and meekness, lord, / Become a churchman better than ambition |
| Ham IV.vii.77 | [Claudius to Laertes] youth no less becomes / The light and careless livery that it wears / Than settled age his sables and his weeds |
| Ham V.ii.396 | [Fortinbras to all, of the deaths] Such a sight as this / Becomes the field, but here shows much amiss |
| JC I.ii.144 | [Cassius to Brutus, of the sounds in the latter's name] Sound them, it doth become the mouth as well |
| JC III.i.202 | [Antony to dead Caesar] Had I as many eyes as thou hast wounds, / Weeping as fast as they stream forth thy blood, / It would become me better than to close / In terms of friendship with thine enemies |
| JC III.i.229 | [Antony to Brutus] I may ... in the pulpit, as becomes a friend, / Speak in the order of his funeral |
| KL V.iii.33 | [Edmund to Captain] to be tender-minded / Does not become a sword |
| LLL IV.ii.30 | [Nathaniel to Holofernes] it would ill become me to be vain, indiscreet, or a fool, |
| LLL IV.iii.254 | [King to Berowne] beauty's crest becomes the heavens well |
| MA II.i.307 | [Don Pedro to Beatrice] to be merry best becomes you |
| MA III.iv.63 | [Margaret to Beatrice] Doth not my wit become me rarely? |
| Mac I.vii.46 | [Macbeth to Lady Macbeth] I dare do all that may become a man |
| Mac III.iv.63 | [Lady Macbeth to Macbeth] these flaws and starts ... would well become / A woman's story at a winter's fire |
| MND II.ii.65 | [Hermia to Lysander, of sleeping apart from each other] Such separation as may well be said / Becomes a virtuous bachelor and a maid |
| MV V.i.57 | [Lorenzo to Jessica] soft stillness and the night / Become the touches of sweet harmony |
| MW I.i.217 | [Slender to Shallow, of loving Anne] I hope, sir, I will do as it shall become one that would do reason |
| MW V.ii.11 | [Page to all] The night is dark. Light and spirits will become it well |
| MW V.v.108 | [Mistress Page to all, of Falstaff's horns] Do not these fair yokes / Become the forest better than the town? |
| Per II.i.95.1 | [Pericles to himself, of the Fishermen] How well this honest mirth becomes their labour! |
| Per IV.iii.12 | [Cleon to Dionyza, of toasting Leonine in poison] 't had been a kindness / Becoming well thy fact |
| Per IV.iv.44 | [Gower to audience] No visor does become black villainy / So well as soft and tender flattery |
| R2 I.i.160 | [John of Gaunt to all] To be a make-peace shall become my age |
| R2 II.i.140 | [King Richard to all, as if to John of Gaunt] let them die that age and sullens have; / For both hast thou, and both become the grave |
| R3 V.v.15 | [Richmond to all, of the dead lords] Inter their bodies as becomes their births |
| Tem III.i.28.2 | [Miranda to Ferdinand, of carrying logs] It would become me / As well as it does you |
| TG II.vii.47 | [Julia to Lucetta] To be fantastic may become a youth / Of greater time than I shall show to be |
| TG III.i.227 | [Proteus to Valentine, of Silvia] Wringing her hands, whose whiteness so became them / As if but now they waxed pale for woe |
| TG III.ii.86 | [Proteus to Duke, of wooing Silvia with music] the night's dead silence / Will well become such sweet complaining grievance |
| TG IV.ii.126 | [Silvia to Proteus] your falsehood shall become you well / To worship shadows and adore false shapes |
| Tim I.ii.26 | [Timon to Apemantus] Y'have got a humour there / Does not become a man |
| Tim II.ii.121 | [Apemantus to Fool, of what he has said] That answer might have become Apemantus |
| Tit I.i.350 | [Lucius to all, of Mutius] let us give him burial as becomes |
| Tit III.ii.57 | [Titus to Marcus] A deed of death done on the innocent / Becomes not Titus' brother |
| Tit IV.iv.34 | [Tamora to herself] thus it shall become / High-witted Tamora to gloze with all |
| TN I.ii.55 | [Viola to Captain] Conceal me what I am, and be my aid / For such disguise as haply shall become / The form of my intent |
| TN I.iv.26 | [Orsino to Viola as Cesario] It shall become thee well to act my woes |
| TN V.i.114 | [Olivia to Orsino, responding to his ‘What shall I do?’] Even what it please my lord, that shall become him |
| TNK V.iii.50 | [Emilia to herself, of Palamon] Melancholy / Becomes him nobly |
| TS I.i.15 | [Lucentio to Tranio, of Lucentio acting to fulfil his father's hopes] It shall become to serve all hopes conceived / To deck his fortune with his virtuous deeds |
| TS I.i.230 | [Lucentio to Biondello, of Tranio] Wait you on him, I charge you, as becomes |
| TS I.ii.86 | [Hortensio to Petruchio, of Katherina] Brought up as best becomes a gentlewoman |
| TS IV.ii.121 | [Tranio as Lucentio to Pedant] Go with me, sir, to clothe you as becomes you |
| Ven.968 | [of Venus] Variable passions throng her constant woe, / As striving who should best become her grief |
| WT I.ii.114 | [Leontes to himself, of how Hermione is treating Polixenes]This entertainment ... [may] well become the agent |
| WT II.i.9 | [Mamillius to Ladies] black brows, they say, / Become some women best |
| WT II.ii.32 | [Paulina to Emilia, of telling Leontes about his newborn baby] The office / Becomes a woman best |
| WT III.ii.63 | [Hermione to Leontes, of Polixenes] I loved him as in honour he required / With such a kind of love as might become / A lady like me |
| WT IV.iv.114.1 | [Perdita to Florizel] I would I had some flowers o'th' spring, that might / Become your time of day |
| WT IV.iv.298 | [Mopsa to Dorcas] It becomes thy oath full well / Thou to me thy secrets tell |
| WT IV.iv.524 | [Camillo to Florizel] I'll point you where you shall have such receiving / As shall become your highness |
| WT IV.iv.543 | [Camillo to Florizel, of Perdita] She shall be habited as it becomes / The partner of your bed |
| WT IV.iv.6 | [Perdita to Florizel] To chide at your extremes it not becomes me |
| WT IV.iv.718 | [Autolycus to Clown and Shepherd] Let me have no lying: it becomes none but tradesmen |
| WT V.i.186 | [Lord to Leontes] I speak amazedly, and it becomes / My marvel and my message |