| 1H4 II.iv.264 | [Falstaff to Prince Hal] thou knowest I am as valiant as Hercules |
| 1H6 II.iii.18 | [Countess to and of Talbot] I thought I should have seen some Hercules |
| 3H6 II.i.53 | [Messenger to Richard] Hercules himself must yield to odds |
| AC III.vii.67 | [Soldier to Canidius] By Hercules, I think I am i'th' right |
| AC IV.iii.17 | [Second soldier to all] 'Tis the god Hercules, whom Antony loved |
| AYL I.ii.197 | [Rosalind to Orlando] Now Hercules be thy speed, young man! |
| Cor IV.i.17 | [Coriolanus to Volumnia] If you had been the wife of Hercules, / Six of his labours you'd have done |
| Cor IV.vi.101 | [Menenius to all] As Hercules did shake down mellow fruit |
| Cym IV.ii.114 | [Guiderius to Belarius, of Cloten] not Hercules / Could have knocked out his brains, for he had none |
| Cym IV.ii.311 | [Innogen alone, seeing Cloten's body] The brawns of Hercules |
| Ham I.ii.153 | [Hamlet alone, of Claudius] My father's brother, but no more like my father / Than I to Hercules |
| Ham II.ii.360 | [Rosencrantz to Hamlet, of the boy plyers 'carrying it way'] Hercules and his load too |
| LLL I.ii.64 | [Mote to Armado, answering the question about which great men have been in love] Hercules, master |
| LLL IV.iii.316 | [Berowne to all] For valour, is not Love a Hercules |
| LLL V.i.123 | [Holofernes to all, of who shall present the characters] the page, Hercules |
| LLL V.ii.533 | [King reading about who presents a character] Armado's page, Hercules |
| MA II.i.232 | [Benedick to Don Pedro, of Beatrice] She would have made Hercules have turned spit |
| MA II.i.338 | [Don Pedro to Leonato] I will in the interim undertake one of Hercules' labours |
| MA III.iii.132 | [Borachio to Conrade] the shaven Hercules in the smirched worm-eaten tapestry |
| MA IV.i.316 | [Beatrice to Benedick, of men] He is now as valiant as Hercules that only tells a lie and swears it |
| MND IV.i.111 | [Hippolyta to Theseus] I was with Hercules and Cadmus once |
| MND V.i.47 | [Theseus to all] In glory of my kinsman, Hercules |
| MV II.i.32 | [Morocco to Portia] If Hercules and Lichas play at dice |
| MV III.ii.60 | [Portia to Bassanio] Go, Hercules |
| MW I.iii.6 | [Host to Falstaff] Discard, bully Hercules |
| TNK I.i.66 | [Theseus to the Queens] Hercules our kinsman - Then weaker than your eyes – laid by his club |
| TNK II.iv.2 | [Theseus to and of Arcite] I have not seen, / Since Hercules, a man of tougher sinews |