| 1H4 V.iv.94 | [Prince Hal to dead Hotspur] If thou wert sensible of courtesy / I should not make so dear a show of zeal |
| 2H4 I.i.193 | [Morton to Northumberland] your son had ... / But shadows and the shows of men, to fight |
| 2H4 V.v.13 | [Falstaff to Shallow, of their clothes] this poor show doth better |
| 2H6 I.i.239 | [York alone] I will ... make a show of love to proud Duke Humphrey |
| 2H6 III.i.225 | [Queen to all, of the King] Gloucester's show / Beguiles him |
| 2H6 III.i.54 | [Suffolk to Queen, of Gloucester] in his simple show he harbours treason |
| AC III.xiii.30 | [Enobarbus to himself] like enough, high-battled Caesar will ... be staged to th'show / Against a sworder |
| AW II.i.150 | [Helena to King] with us that square our guess by shows |
| H5 I.ii.72 | [Canterbury to King Henry, of Hugh Capet] To find his title with some shows of truth |
| Ham III.ii.145.4 | [stage direction for dumb show, of the Queen and King] She kneels, and makes show of protestation unto him |
| JC I.ii.34 | [Cassius to Brutus] I have not from your eyes that gentleness / And show of love as I was wont to have |
| LC.92 | [of the man] Small show of man was yet upon his chin |
| Luc.1507 | [of a painting of Sinon] the painter laboured ... [to] give the harmless show / An humble gait |
| Luc.1514 | [of a painting of Sinon] He entertained a show so seeming just |
| Luc.1580 | [of Lucrece] Losing her woes in shows of discontent |
| Luc.1810 | [] Brutus ... / Began to clothe his wit in state and pride, / Burying in Lucrece' wound his folly's show |
| MV II.vii.20 | [Morocco to himself] A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross |
| MV III.ii.73 | [Bassanio to himself] So may the outward shows be least themselves |
| Oth I.i.52 | [Iago to Roderigo, of some servants] throwing but shows of service on their lords, / Do well thrive by them |
| Per II.iii.6 | [Simonides to Knights] every worth in show commends itself |
| RJ V.i.48 | [Romeo alone, of the things on an apothecary's shelves] thinly scattered, to make up a show |
| TN II.iv.116 | [Viola as Cesario to Orsino] Our shows are more than will [i.e. we show more passion than we feel] |