| 2H4 I.ii.132 | [Falstaff to Lord Chief Justice] the wise may make some dram of a scruple, or indeed a scruple itself [second instance] |
| AW II.iii.220 | [Lafew to Parolles, of the insults Parolles deserves] I will not bate thee a scruple |
| MA V.i.93 | [Antonio to Leonato, of Claudio and Don Pedro] I know ... what they weigh, even to the utmost scruple |
| MM I.i.37 | [Duke to Angelo] Nature never lends / The smallest scruple of her excellence |
| MV IV.i.327 | [Portia as Balthasar to Shylock, of weighing Antonio's flesh] the division of the twentieth part / Of one poor scruple |
| TC IV.i.71 | [Diomedes to Paris, of Helen] for every scruple / Of her contaminated carrion weight / A Trojan hath been slain |
| TN II.v.2 | [Fabian to Sir Toby] If I lose a scruple of this sport, let me be boiled to death with melancholy |
| TN III.iv.79 | [Malvolio alone] no dram of a scruple, no scruple of a scruple ... can come between me and the full prospect of my hopes [also: doubt] |