| 3H6 IV.v.17 | [Edward to all] Stand you thus close to steal the Bishop's deer? |
| Cym I.vii.139.1 | [Iachimo to Innogen] I ... will continue fast to your affection, / Still close as sure |
| JC I.iii.131 | [Casca to Cassius] Stand close awhile, for here comes one in haste |
| KL III.ii.57 | [Lear as if to a criminal] Close pent-up guilts, / Rive your concealing continents |
| Mac III.v.7 | [Hecat to Witches, of herself] The close contriver of all harms |
| Oth III.iii.122 | [Othello to Iago, of Iago's pauses] in a man that's just, / They're close dilations ... / That passion cannot rule [or: involuntary] |
| R3 I.i.158 | [Richard alone] another secret close intent |
| Tim IV.iii.143 | [Timon to Phrynia and Timandra, of anyone who wants to convert them] Let your close fire predominate his smoke [i.e. if 'fire' = infection; or: ardent, if 'fire' = passion] |
| Tit IV.ii.117 | [Aaron to Chiron, of skin colour] that will betray with blushing / The close enacts and counsels of thy heart |
| TNK III.v.13 | [Schoolmaster to all] there are you / Close in the thicket |
| TNK IV.i.129 | [Gaoler's Daughter to First Friend] I keep close for all this, / Close as a cockle [i.e. keep myself to myself] |
| TNK V.i.122 | [Palamon praying to Venus] him I do not love that tells close offices / The foulest way |
| WT III.iii.120 | [Shepherd to Clown, of the gold in Perdita's box] Up with't, keep it close |