| 1H4 I.i.53 | [Westmorland to King Henry] brave Archibald, / That ever valiant and approved Scot |
| 1H4 IV.i.7 | [Hotspur to Douglas] a braver place / In my heart's love hath no man than yourself |
| 1H4 V.i.89 | [Prince Hal to King Henry, of Hotspur] I do not think a braver gentleman ... is now alive / To grace this latter age with noble deeds |
| 1H4 V.ii.86 | [Hotspur to all] If [we] die, brave death when princes die with us! |
| 1H4 V.iv.86 | [Prince Hal to dead Hotspur, completing his 'And food for -'] For worms, brave Percy |
| 1H6 I.iv.28 | [Talbot to all] The Duke of Bedford had a prisoner / Called the brave Lord Ponton de Santrailles |
| 1H6 III.ii.101 | [Talbot to Burgundy] And now no more ado, brave Burgundy |
| 1H6 III.ii.134 | [Talbot to all, of Bedford] A braver soldier never couched lance |
| 1H6 III.iii.41 | [Pucelle to Burgundy] Brave Burgundy, undoubted hope of France |
| 1H6 III.iii.86 | [Charles to Burgundy] Welcome, brave Duke |
| 1H6 III.iv.16 | [King to Talbot] Welcome, brave captain and victorious lord! |
| 1H6 IV.iii.34 | [Lucy to Richard] God take mercy on brave Talbot's soul |
| 1H6 IV.vi.24 | [Talbot to John, as if to the Bastard] that pure blood of mine / Which thou didst force from Talbot, my brave boy |
| 1H6 V.iii.146 | [Reignier to Suffolk] Welcome, brave Earl, into our territories |
| 2H6 I.i.73 | [Gloucester to all] Brave peers of England |
| 2H6 IV.ii.60 | [Cade to all] Be brave then; for your captain is brave, and vows reformation |
| 2H6 V.i.144 | [York to Clifford, of Salisbury and Warwick] Call hither to the stake my two brave bears |
| 2H6 V.ii.20 | [York to Clifford] With thy brave bearing should I be in love |
| 3H6 I.iv.66 | [Queen to Clifford and Northumberland] Brave warriors |
| 3H6 II.i.108 | [Warwick to Edward and Richard] at Wakefield ... / Where your brave father breathed his latest gasp |
| 3H6 II.i.208 | [Warwick to all] Why then it sorts, brave warriors |
| 3H6 II.i.35 | [Edward to Richard] we, the sons of brave Plantagenet |
| 3H6 IV.vii.86 | [Edward to all] Come on, brave soldiers; doubt not of the day |
| 3H6 V.iv.52 | [Oxford to Richmond] O brave young Prince! |
| 3H6 V.iv.67 | [Edward to all] Brave followers, yonder stands the thorny wood |
| 3H6 V.vii.10 | [Edward to all] The two brave bears, Warwick and Montague |
| 3H6 V.vii.8 | [Edward to all, of the two Northumberlands] two braver men / Ne'er spurred their coursers at the trumpet's sound |
| AC I.v.38 | [Cleopatra to Alexas] How goes it with my brave Mark Antony? |
| AC III.xiii.164 | [Cleopatra to Antony] The next Caesarion smite, / Till by degrees the memory of my womb, / Together with my brave Egyptians all ... / Lie graveless |
| AC IV.vii.4 | [Scarus to Antony, of their deeds in the battle] O my brave emperor, this is fought indeed! [or: sense 3] |
| AC IV.xiv.98 | [Antony alone] My queen and Eros / Have by their brave instruction got upon me / A nobleness in record |
| AC IV.xv.85 | [Cleopatra to Charmian and Iras] what's brave, what's noble, / Let's do't after the high Roman fashion |
| AC V.ii.333.2 | [Caesar to all, of the death of Cleopatra] Bravest at the last |
| AW I.ii.28 | [King to Bertram, of Bertram's father] He ... was / Discipled of the bravest |
| AYL III.iii.90 | [Touchstone to Sir Oliver] O brave Oliver |
| Cor I.iv.25 | [Martius to Lartius] Advance, brave Titus |
| Cor IV.ii.38 | [Volumnia to Brutus] You have done a brave deed |
| Cor V.i.31 | [Menenius to all, of Cominius] this brave fellow |
| Cym I.ii.97 | [Innogen to Queen, of Cloten] Your son's my father's friend, he takes his part / To draw upon an exile. O brave sir! |
| Cym IV.ii.319 | [Innogen alone, of the body she believes to be Posthumus] this most bravest vessel of the world |
| E3 II.ii.200 | [King Edward to those outside] Warwick, my son, Derby, Artois, and Audley, / Brave warriors all, where are you all this while? |
| E3 III.iv.75.1 | [Derby to Prince Edward] Welcome, brave Prince! |
| H5 IV.ii.3.2 | [Orleans to all, of their mood] O brave spirit! |
| H5 IV.vi.7 | [Exeter to King Henry, of York covered in blood] In which array, brave soldier, doth he lie |
| H5 IV.viii.94 | [King Henry to all] the brave Sir Guichard Dauphin |
| H8 IV.i.40 | [Second Gentleman to First Gentleman, of Surrey] A bold brave gentleman |
| Ham IV.vii.87 | [Claudius to Laertes, of Lamord] [he] to such wondrous doing brought his horse / As had he been incorpsed and demi-natured / With the brave beast |
| JC II.i.314 | [Brutus to Ligarius] O, what a time have you chose out, brave Caius, / To wear a kerchief! |
| JC II.i.322 | [Ligarius to Brutus] Brave son, derived from honourable loins! |
| JC III.i.204 | [Antony to dead Caesar] Here wast thou bayed, brave hart |
| JC V.iii.80 | [Titinius to dead Cassius] Why didst thou send me forth, brave Cassius? |
| KJ II.i.1 | [King Philip to Austria] Before Angiers well met, brave Austria |
| KJ V.ii.44 | [Lewis the Dauphin to Salisbury] O, what a noble combat hast thou fought / Between compulsion and a brave respect! |
| KJ V.vi.13 | [Hubert to Bastard] Brave soldier, pardon me |
| LLL V.ii.663 | [Princess to Armado] Speak, brave Hector |
| Mac I.ii.16 | [Captain to Duncan] brave Macbeth--well he deserves that name |
| Mac I.ii.5 | [Malcolm to Captain] Hail, brave friend! |
| MM IV.iii.15 | [Pompey alone] brave Master Shoe-tie the great traveller |
| MND III.ii.70 | [Hermia to Demetrius, of Lysander] And hast thou killed him sleeping? O, brave touch! |
| Oth I.iii.288 | [First Senator to Othello] Adieu, brave Moor |
| Oth II.i.38 | [Montano to all] Let's to the sea-side ... to throw out our eyes for brave Othello |
| Oth V.i.31 | [Othello to himself] O brave Iago, honest and just |
| R2 II.iii.99 | [York to Bolingbroke] brave Gaunt, thy father |
| R3 I.ii.239 | [Richard alone, of Anne] Hath she forgot already that brave prince, Edward |
| R3 I.iv.224 | [First Murderer to Clarence] gallant-springing brave Plantagenet, / That princely novice |
| RJ III.i.116 | [Benvolio to Romeo] brave Mercutio is dead! |
| RJ III.i.145 | [Benvolio to Prince, of Tybalt] That slew thy kinsman, brave Mercutio |
| Sonn.15.8 | [] When I perceive that men ... wear their brave state out of memory |
| TC I.ii.186 | [Pandarus to Cressida] That's Aeneas; is not that a brave man? |
| TC I.ii.201 | [Pandarus to Cressida] There's a brave man, niece. - O brave Hector! Look how he looks! There's a countenance! Is't not a brave man? |
| TC I.ii.214 | [Pandarus to Cressida, of Paris passing by] Why, this is brave now. |
| TC I.ii.228 | [Pandarus to Cressida] Brave Troilus, the prince of chivalry! |
| TC II.ii.204 | [Troilus to Hector] I presume brave Hector would not lose / So rich advantage of a promised glory |
| TC III.iii.140 | [Ulysses to all] They clap the lubber Ajax on the shoulder, / As if his foot were on brave Hector's breast |
| TC V.i.66 | [Acvhilles to Hector] Welcome, brave Hector |
| TC V.iii.35 | [Hector to Troilus] doubt thou not, brave boy, / I'll stand today for thee, and me, and Troy |
| Tem I.ii.206.2 | [Prospero to Ariel] My brave spirit! |
| Tem I.ii.412 | [Miranda to Prospero, of Ferdinand] It carries a brave form |
| Tem I.ii.439.1 | [Ferdinand to Prospero, of who was on the wrecked ship] the Duke of Milan / And his brave son being twain |
| Tem I.ii.440 | [Prospero to himself, of Ferdinand's mention of 'the Duke of Milan and his brave son'] The Duke of Milan / And his more braver daughter could control thee |
| Tem II.i.185 | [Gonzalo to Antonio and Sebastian] You are gentlemen of brave mettle |
| Tem II.ii.115 | [Caliban to himself, of Stephano] That's a brave god, and bears celestial liquor |
| Tem III.ii.104.2 | [Stephano to Caliban, of Miranda] Is it so brave a lass? |
| Tem V.i.261 | [Caliban to himself, of the people he sees] O Setebos, these be brave spirits indeed! |
| Tim I.ii.54 | [Apemantus to Timon, of Second Lord] A brave fellow. |
| Tim IV.iii.91 | [Alcibiades to Timon] I have but little gold of late, brave Timon |
| Tit IV.ii.135 | [Aaron to Chiron and Demetrius] Why, so, brave lords |
| Tit V.i.9 | [First Goth to Lucius] Brave slip, sprung from the great Andronicus |
| TNK II.iv.22 | [Hippolyta to all, of disguised Arcite] his body / And fiery mind illustrate a brave father |
| TNK III.i.78 | [Palamon to Arcite] brave souls in shades / That have died manly |
| TNK III.i.81.1 | [Palamon to Arcite] thou art brave and noble |
| TNK III.vi.233.2 | [Pirithous to Emilia, of persuading Thesus] Urge it home, brave lady |
| TNK III.vi.43 | [Palamon to Arcite] thou art so brave an enemy / That no man but thy cousin's fit to kill thee |
| TNK IV.ii.73 | [Mesenger to Theseus, of the Knights] Six braver spirits / Than these they have brought - I never saw |
| TNK V.i.167 | [Emilia to herself] this battle shall confound / Both these brave knights |
| TNK V.iii.115 | [Theseus to Emilia, of Arcite talking about Palamon] He speaks now of as brave a knight as e'er / Did spur a noble steed |
| TNK V.iii.4 | [Emilia to all] Every blow that falls / Threats a brave life |
| TNK V.iv.95.2 | [Palamon to dead Arcite] Thy brave soul seek Elysium! |
| WT V.i.135 | [Leontes to Florizel] I lost ... the society, / Amity too, of your brave father |