| CE III.i.61 | [Adriana to all] Who is that at the door that keeps all this noise? |
| H5 I.ii.274 | [King Henry to Ambassador] tell the Dauphin I will keep my state |
| H8 I.iii.10 | [Lord Chamberlain to Sands, of the effect of France upon the English] they keep state so |
| JC I.ii.159 | [Cassius to Brutus, of Junius Brutus] would have brooked / Th'eternal devil to keep his state in Rome |
| MM I.iii.10 | [Duke to Friar Thomas] assemblies / Where youth and cost a witless bravery keeps |
| RJ II.iii.31 | [Friar to Romeo] Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye |
| RJ V.iii.16 | [Paris as if to Juliet] The obsequies that I for thee will keep / Nightly shall be to strew thy grave and weep |