| 2H4 IV.ii.82 | [Archbishop to Mowbray] Against ill chances men are ever merry, / But heaviness foreruns the good event |
| 2H4 IV.v.9 | [Clarence to Prince Henry] I am here, brother, full of heaviness |
| AC IV.xv.33 | [Cleopatra to all] Our strength is all gone into heaviness [also: weightiness] |
| E3 V.i.130 | [Salisbury to King Edward, of the army surrounding Prince Edward] to see the occasion with our eyes / Did thrice so much increase our heaviness |
| Luc.1283 | [Maid to Lucrece, of herself] She would request to know your heaviness |
| MV II.viii.52 | [Solanio to Salerio, of Antonio] let us ... quicken his embraced heaviness / With some delight or other |
| RJ III.iv.11 | [Lady Capulet to Paris, of Juliet] Tonight she's mewed up to her heaviness |
| RJ III.v.108 | [Lady Capulet to Juliet, of Capulet] who, to put thee from thy heaviness, / Hath sorted out a sudden day of joy |
| Tem V.i.200.1 | [Prospero to Alonso] Let us not burden our remembrances with / A heaviness that's gone |
| Tit III.ii.49 | [Marcus to Titus, of Young Lucius] the tender boy in passion moved / Doth weep to see his grandsire's heaviness |