| 2H4 IV.v.171 | [Prince Henry to King Henry IV, of the crown] if it did ... swell my thoughts to any strain of pride [or: height] |
| Cym IV.ii.24.2 | [Belarius to himself, of Arviragus] O noble strain! [or: ancestry] |
| H5 II.iv.51 | [French King to all, of King Henry] he is bred out of that bloody strain / That haunted us in our familiar paths |
| JC V.i.59 | [Brutus to Octavius] if thou wert the noblest of thy strain |
| KL V.iii.41 | [Albany to Edmund] you have showed today your valiant strain [or: ancestry] |
| MA II.i.351 | [Don Pedro to all, of Benedick] he is of a noble strain [or: lineage] |
| MW II.i.82 | [Mistress Page to Mistress Ford, of Falstaff] unless he know some strain in me that I know not myself, he would never have boarded me in this fury |
| MW III.iii.174 | [Mistress Page to Mistress Ford, of Falstaff] I would all of the same strain were in the same distress |
| TC II.ii.155 | [Paris to all, of giving up Helen] Can it be / That so degenerate a strain as this / Should once set footing in your generous bosoms? |
| Tim I.i.254 | [Apemantus to all] The strain of man's bred out / Into baboon and monkey |
| Tim IV.iii.214 | [Apemantus to Timon, of an imaginary patron] Praise his most vicious strain / And call it excellent |