| 1H4 I.ii.205 | [Prince Hal alone] nothing pleaseth but rare accidents |
| AC V.i.31.2 | [Agrippa to all, of Antony] A rarer spirit never / Did steer humanity |
| Cym I.vii.16 | [Iachimo to himself, of Innogen] If she be furnished with a mind so rare |
| Cym III.v.78 | [Cloten alone, of Innogen's preference for Posthumus] slanders so her judgement / That what's else rare is choked |
| Cym IV.ii.208 | [Belarius as if to disguised Innogen] Thou diedst a most rare boy |
| Cym V.iv.133 | [Posthumus alone, of his book] O rare one |
| Cym V.v.160 | [Iachimo to Cymbeline, of Posthumus] the best of all / Amongst the rar'st of good ones |
| Cym V.v.382.2 | [Cymbeline to Cornelius] O rare instinct! |
| KL I.iv.260 | [Lear to Gonerill] My train are men of choice and rarest parts |
| Mac V.vi.64 | [Macduff to Macbeth] We'll have thee, as our rarer monsters are, / Painted upon a pole |
| Per Chorus.IV.37 | [Gower alone] Cleon's wife, with envy rare |
| Per III.ii.105.2 | [First Gentleman to all, of Thaisa's recovery] Most rare |
| Sonn.21.7 | []With April's first-born flowers and all things rare, / That heaven's air in this huge rondure hems |
| Tem IV.i.123 | [Ferdinand to Prospero] So rare a wondered father and a wise |
| Tem V.i.27 | [Prospero to Ariel] The rarer action is / In virtue than in vengeance |
| TNK I.iii.63 | [Emilia to Hippolyta] elements / That ... effect / Rare issues by their operance |
| WT I.ii.367.2 | [Camillo to Polixenes, responding to 'What is the news i'th'court?'] None rare, my lord |
| WT IV.ii.42 | [Camillo to Polixenes, of the Shepherd] who hath a daughter of most rare note |
| WT IV.iv.32 | [Florizel to Perdita, of the gods] Their transformations / Were never for a piece of beauty rarer |
| WT V.ii.95 | [Third Gentleman to all, of Hermione's status] newly performed by that rare Italian master, Julio Romano |