| AYL II.vii.46 | [Jaques to Duke Senior] weed your better judgements / Of all opinion that grows rank in them |
| H5 V.ii.45 | [Burgundy to King Henry and the French King, of peace] her fallow leas / The darnel, hemlock, and rank fumitory / Doth root upon |
| H5 V.ii.50 | [Burgundy to King Henry and the French King, of the meadow] Wanting the scythe, all uncorrected, rank, / Conceives by idleness |
| H8 V.i.52 | [Gardiner to Lovell, of Cranmer] He's a rank weed ... / And we must root him out |
| Ham I.ii.136 | [Hamlet alone, of the world] Things rank and gross in nature / Possess it merely |
| Ham III.iv.153 | [Hamlet to Gertrude] do not spread the compost on the weeds / To make them ranker [Q2; F ranke] |
| Ham IV.iv.22 | [Captain to Hamlet, of the contested land] Nor will it yield to Norway or the Pole / A ranker rate, should it be sold in fee |
| Sonn.118.12 | [of ills] brought to medicine a healthful state / Which rank of goodness would by ill be cured |