| 2H4 IV.ii.49 | [Hastings to Prince John] heir from heir shall hold this quarrel up / Whiles England shall have generation |
| KL I.i.117 | [Lear to Cordelia] he that makes his generation messes / To gorge his appetite [i.e. who eats his children] |
| R2 V.v.8 | [Richard alone, of his brain and soul] these two beget / A generation of still-breeding thoughts |
| Tem III.iii.34 | [Gonzalo to all, of the island people] Their manners are more gentle, kind, than of / Our human generation you shall find / Many |
| WT II.i.148 | [Antigonus to Leontes, of Antigonus' daughters] Fourteen they shall not see / To bring false generations |