| 1H4 I.ii.183 | [Poins to Prince Hal, of one of their companions] if he fight longer than he sees reason, I'll forswear arms |
| 1H4 II.ii.15 | [Falstaff to himself, of Poins] I have forsworn his company hourly any time this two-and-twenty years |
| 2H4 II.iv.199 | [Hostess to all] I'll forswear keeping house afore I'll be in these tirrits and frights! |
| 2H4 IV.iii.121 | [Falstaff alone, of possible sons] the first human principle I would teach them should be to forswear thin potations |
| 2H4 V.iv.21 | [Doll to First Beadle] if you be not swinged I'll forswear half-kirtles |
| 3H6 I.i.251 | [Queen to King] The northern lords that have forsworn thy colours / Will follow mine |
| AYL III.ii.398 | [Rosalind as Ganymede to Orlando, of one in love] then entertain him, then forswear him [i.e. rebuff him] |
| AYL III.ii.401 | [Rosalind as Ganymede to Orlando, of driving her suitor] to forswear the full stream of the world |
| AYL V.iv.55 | [Touchstone to Duke Senior] I press in here ... to swear and to forswear, according as marriage binds and blood breaks |
| Cor V.iii.80 | [Coriolanus to Volumnia] The thing I have forsworn to grant [i.e. sworn not to grant] |
| LLL IV.iii.295 | [Berowne to all] we have forsworn our books |
| LLL IV.iii.62 | [Longaville reading from a paper] A woman I forswore |
| LLL V.ii.410 | [Berowne to Rosaline, of giving up flowery words] I do forswear them |
| MND II.i.62 | [Titania to Fairy, of Oberon] I have forsworn his bed and company |
| Oth IV.ii.158 | [Desdemona to Iago] Comfort forswear me! |
| R2 IV.i.210 | [Richard to all] All pomp and majesty I do forswear |
| RJ I.i.223 | [Romeo to Benvolio, of the object of his love] She hath forsworn to love |
| Tem IV.i.91.1 | [Ceres to Iris, of Venus and her son] Her and her blind boy's scandalled company / I have forsworn |
| TG III.i.212 | [Valentine to Proteus, of Silvia] Hath she forsworn me? |
| TG III.ii.4 | [Thurio to Duke, of Silvia] she hath ... / Forsworn my company |
| Tim IV.iii.134 | [Timon to Phrynia and Timandra, of the gold he has] Enough to make a whore forswear her trade |
| TN I.iii.85 | [Sir Andrew to Sir Toby, of eating beef doing harm to one's wit] An I thought that, I'd forswear it |
| TN III.iv.246 | [Sir Toby to Viola as Cesario] meddle you must ... or forswear to wear iron about you |
| TS IV.ii.26 | [Tranio as Lucentio to Hortensio] I will with you, if you be so contented, / Forswear Bianca and her love for ever |
| TS IV.ii.35 | [Hortensio to Tranio as Lucentio, of Lucentio as Cambio] Would all the world but he had quite forsworn! |
| WT I.ii.361 | [Camillo alone, of poisoning Polixenes] Let villainy itself forswear't |