| H8 III.ii.105 | [Surrey to Norfolk, of Wolsey's apparent vexation] I would 'twere something that would fret the string, / The master-cord on's heart! |
| KL I.iv.282 | [Lear to the goddess Nature, of any child of Gonerill's] With cadent tears fret channels in her cheeks |
| R2 III.iii.167 | [King Richard to Aumerle, of their shed tears] they have fretted us a pair of graves / Within the earth [i.e. made for us through wearing away] |
| TS II.i.321 | [Tranio as Lucentio to Baptista, of Katherina] 'Twas a commodity lay fretting by you [also: sense 3] |
| Ven.767 | [Venus to Adonis] Foul cankering rust the hidden treasure frets |