| 1H4 V.iv.64 | [Prince Hal to Hotspur] Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere |
| AC II.vii.14 | [First Servant to Second Servant] To be called into a huge sphere |
| AC IV.xv.10 | [Cleopatra to all] O sun, / Burn the great sphere thou mov'st in |
| AC V.ii.84 | [Cleopatra to Dolabella, of Antony] his voice was propertied / As all the tuned spheres |
| AW I.i.88 | [Helena alone, of Bertram] In his bright radiance and collateral light / Must I be comforted, not in his sphere |
| AYL II.vii.6 | [Duke Senior to First Lord] We shall have shortly discord in the spheres |
| Ham I.v.17 | [Ghost to Hamlet, of what his tale would do] Make thy two eyes like stars start from their spheres |
| Ham IV.vii.15 | [Claudius to Laertes] as the star moves not but in his sphere |
| KJ V.vii.74 | [Bastard to Lords] you stars that move in your right spheres, / Where be your powers? |
| MND II.i.153 | [Oberon to Puck] certain stars shot madly from their spheres |
| MND II.i.7 | [Fairy to Puck] I do wander everywhere / Swifter than the moon's sphere |
| MND III.ii.61 | [Demetrius to Hermia] you ... look ... as clear, / As yonder Venus in her glimmering sphere |
| RJ II.ii.17 | [Romeo to himself, of Juliet's eyes] Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven, / Having some business, do entreat her eyes / To twinkle in their spheres till they return |
| TN III.i.107.1 | [Olivia to Viola as Cesario, of his pursuing his own suit] I had rather hear you to solicit that / Than music from the spheres [i.e. heavenly music] |