| 2H4 IV.i.13 | [Archbishop to Hastings and Mowbray, of Northumberland] He is retired to ripe his growing fortunes / To Scotland |
| AYL II.vii.26 | [Jaques to all, reporting Touchstone] from hour to hour we ripe, and ripe |
| KJ II.i.472 | [Queen Eleanor to King John, of Arthur] yon green boy shall have no sun to ripe / The bloom that promiseth a mighty fruit |
| MND II.ii.124 | [Lysander to Helena] Things growing are not ripe until their season; / So I, being young, till now ripe not to reason |