| AC IV.xv.90 | [Cleopatra to all] we have no friend / But resolution, and the briefest end |
| KL V.iii.243 | [Edmund to Albany] Quickly send - / Be brief in it - to the castle |
| R3 II.ii.43 | [Queen Elizabeth to all] If you will live, lament; if die, be brief |
| R3 IV.iii.57 | [King Richard to Ratcliffe] We must be brief when traitors brave the field |
| TS III.i.65 | [Hortensio as Licio to Bianca, of playing the lute] I must begin ... / To teach you gamut in a briefer sort |