| 1H4 IV.ii.18 | [Falstaff alone, of his soldiers] such a commodity of warm slaves as had as lief hear the devil as a drum |
| 2H4 I.ii.40 | [Falstaff to Page] I had as lief they would put ratsbane in my mouth as offer to stop it with security |
| 2H4 III.ii.217 | [Bullcalf to Bardolph, of going to war] I had as lief be hanged, sir, as go |
| AC II.vii.12 | [Second Servant to First Servant] I had as lief have a reed that will do me no service as a partisan I could not heave |
| AYL I.i.136 | [Oliver to Charles, of Orlando] I had as lief thou didst break his neck as his finger |
| AYL III.ii.247 | [Jaques to Orlando] I thank you for your company, but ... I had as lief have been myself alone |
| AYL IV.i.46 | [Rosalind as Ganymede to Orlando] an you be so tardy come no more in my sight; I had as lief be wooed of a snail |
| Cor IV.v.181 | [Third Servignman to others] I would not be a Roman, of all nations. I had as lief be a condemned man |
| H5 III.vii.57 | [Constable to Dauphin, of the latter preferring a horse to a mistress] I had as lief have my mistress a jade |
| Ham III.ii.3 | [Hamlet to Players, of a speech] if you mouth it as many of your players do, I had as lief the town crier spoke my lines |
| JC I.ii.95 | [Cassius to Brutus] I had as lief not be as live to be / In awe of such a thing as I myself |
| MA II.iii.82 | [Benedick to Don Pedro, of Balthasar] I had as lief have heard the night-raven |
| MM I.ii.132 | [Lucio to Claudio] I had as lief have the foppery of freedom as the morality of imprisonment |
| MM I.ii.33 | [First Gentleman to Lucio] I had as lief be a list of an English kersey as be piled, as thou art piled, for a French velvet |
| MW III.i.59 | [Evans to Page] I had as lief you would tell me of a mess of porridge |
| MW IV.ii.107 | [John to Robert, of a chest carrying Falstaff] I had as lief bear so much lead. |
| R2 V.ii.49 | [Aumerle to Duchess of York, of who are the ‘violets’] God knows I had as lief be none as one |
| RJ II.iv.198 | [Nurse to Romeo, of Juliet and Paris] she, good soul, had as lief see a toad, a very toad, as see him |
| TC I.ii.105 | [Cressida to Pandarus] I had as lief Helen's golden tongue had commended Troilus for a copper nose |
| TN III.ii.30 | [Sir Andrew to Fabian] I had as lief be a Brownist as a politician |
| TNK I.i.102 | [Hippolyta to Second Queen] I had as lief trace this good action with you / As that whereto I am going |
| TS I.i.129 | [Gremio to Hortensio, of Katherina] I had as lief take her dowry with this condition--to be whipped at the high-cross |