| MV III.ii.80 | [Bassanio to himself] In religion, / What damned error but some sober brow / Will bless it and approve it with a text, / Hiding the grossness with fair ornament? |
| MW V.v.124 | [Falstaff to all] the sudden surprise of my powers, drove the grossness of the foppery into a received belief ... that they were fairies |
| TC I.iii.325 | [Nestor to Ulysses, of Hector's challenge] The purpose is perspicuous even as substance / Whose grossness little characters sum up |
| TN III.ii.68 | [Maria to Sir Toby and Fabian, of Malvolio] there is no Christian ... can ever believe such impossible passages of grossness [i.e. flagrantly impossible proceedings] |