| 1H4 I.iii.287 | [Worcester to Hotspur, of the rebellion] No further go in this / Than I by letters shall direct your course |
| 1H4 II.iii.23 | [Hotspur alone, on the rebellion] my Lord of York commends the plot, and the general course of the action |
| 1H4 III.i.39 | [Glendower to Hotspur] all the courses of my life do show / I am not in the roll of common men |
| 1H6 IV.i.132 | [Gloucester to all] Let me persuade you take a better course |
| 1H6 V.iv.156 | [Reignier aside to Charles] you do not well in obstinacy / To cavil in the course of this contract |
| 2H4 I.i.159 | [Northumberland to Lord Bardolph and Morton] each heart being set / On bloody courses |
| 2H4 II.i.81 | [Lord Chief Justice to Falstaff] Are you not ashamed to enforce a poor widow to so rough a course to come by her own? |
| 2H4 IV.ii.103 | [Hastings to Westmorland, of the soldiers] Like youthful steers unyoked they take their courses |
| 2H4 IV.iii.48 | [Falstaff to all, of having his capture of Colevile sung in a ballad] to the which course if I be enforced ... believe not the word of the noble |
| 2H4 IV.iv.90 | [Westmorland to King Henry IV] Here at more leisure may your highness read, / With every course in his particular |
| 2H4 IV.v.213 | [King Henry IV to Prince Henry] Be it thy course to busy giddy minds / With foreign quarrels |
| 3H6 III.i.25 | [King to himself] Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, / For wise men say it is the wisest course |
| 3H6 V.vi.22 | [King to Richard] Thy father, Minos, that denied our course |
| AC III.xi.9 | [Antony to all] I have myself resolved upon a course / Which has no need of you |
| AC III.xiii.78.2 | [Thidias to Cleopatra, of her proposal] 'Tis your noblest course |
| AC V.ii.130 | [Caesar to Cleopatra] if you seek / To lay on me a cruelty by taking / Antony's course, you shall bereave yourself / Of my good purposes |
| AW II.v.58 | [Bertram to Helena] You must not marvel, Helen, at my course |
| AW IV.iv.36 | [Helena to Diana and Widow] Whate'er the course, the end is the renown |
| AW V.iii.214 | [Bertram to King] all impediments in fancy's course / Are motives of more fancy |
| AW V.iii.98 | [Bertram to King, of a Florentine woman] I could not answer in that course of honour / As she had made the overture |
| CE IV.iii.95 | [Courtesan alone, of telling Adriana what has happened] This course I fittest choose |
| Cor I.i.67 | [Menenius to Citizens] the Roman state, whose course will on / The way it takes |
| Cor III.i.325 | [First Senator to Brutus and Sicinius, of dealing with Coriolanus] The other course / Will prove too bloody |
| Cor IV.i.35 | [Volumnia to Coriolanus] Determine on some course / More than a wild exposture to each chance / That starts i'th' way before thee |
| Cym III.iv.113 | [Pisanio to Innogen] I have considered of a course |
| Cym III.iv.148 | [Pisanio to Innogen] you should tread a course / Pretty, and full of view |
| Cym V.i.3 | [Posthumus alone, as if to married men] If each of you should take this course |
| E3 III.i.71 | [Mariner to King John, of the English navy] Majestical the order of their course |
| E3 III.iii.34 | [King Edward to Prince Edward] in all thy warlike course / Hast thou not seen the usurping King of France? |
| H5 Epil.chorus.4 | [Chorus, of the author's treatment of the characters] Mangling by starts the full course of their glory |
| H5 V.chorus.4 | [Chorus to the audience] admit th'excuse / Of time, of numbers, and due course of things |
| H8 I.i.189 | [Buckingham to Norfolk] the Emperor thus desired / That he would please to alter the King's course / And break the foresaid peace |
| H8 II.ii.35 | [Norfolk to Lord Chamberlain and Suffolk, of the King's divorce] is not this course pious? |
| H8 II.iv.216 | [Lincoln to King Henry] I ... did entreat your highness to this course / Which you are running here |
| H8 III.ii.243 | [Wolsey to all] Follow your envious courses, men of malice |
| H8 V.iii.35 | [Cranmer to all] I have laboured ... that my teaching / And the strong course of my authority / Might go one way |
| Ham I.i.37 | [Barnardo to Horatio] When yond same star that's westward from the pole / Had made his course t'illume that part of heaven / Where now it burns |
| Ham I.ii.93 | [Claudius to Hamlet] to persever / In obstinate condolement is a course / Of impious stubbornness |
| Ham II.ii.596 | [Hamlet alone, of Claudius] If 'a do blench, / I know my course |
| JC II.i.162 | [Brutus to Cassius] Our course will seem too bloody |
| JC III.ii.263.1 | [Antony alone] Mischief, thou art afoot, / Take thou what course thou wilt |
| KJ III.i.178 | [Cardinal Pandulph to King John] meritorious shall that hand be called ... / That takes away by any secret course / Thy hateful life |
| KL I.i.187 | [Kent to all, of himself and his banishment] He'll shape his old course in a country new |
| KL I.ii.83 | [Edmund to Gloucester] If it shall please you to suspend your indignation against my brother till you can derive from him better testimony of his intent, you should run a certain course |
| KL I.iii.27 | [Gonerill to Oswald] I'll write straight to my sister / To hold my very course |
| KL I.iv.203 | [Gonerill to Lear] [I] now grow fearful ... / That you protect this course and put it on / By your allowance |
| KL I.iv.338 | [Gonerill to Albany] This milky gentleness and course of yours |
| KL II.ii.166 | [disguised Kent alone, of Cordelia] Who hath most fortunately been informed / Of my obscured course |
| KL II.iv.90.1 | [Gloucester to Lear] You know the fiery quality of the Duke, / How unremovable and fixed he is / In his own course |
| KL III.v.21 | [Edmund to Cornwall] I will persever in my course of loyalty, though the conflict be sore between that and my blood |
| KL III.vii.53 | [Gloucester to Cornwall] I am tied to the stake, and I must stand the course |
| KL IV.ii.94.1 | [Messenger to Albany, of Edmund leaving Gonerill and Cornwall at Gloucester's house] [he] quit the house on purpose that their punishment / Might have the freer course |
| KL V.i.3 | [Edmund to a gentleman] Know of the Duke if his last purpose hold / Or whether since he is advised by aught / To change the course |
| LLL II.i.25 | [Princess to Boyet, of the King] Therefore to's seemeth it a needful course ... / To know his pleasure |
| Luc.1765 | [Lucretius as if to time] cease thou thy course and last no longer, / If they surcease to be that should survive! |
| Luc.328 | [] those bars which stop the hourly dial, / Who with a ling'ring stay his course doth let |
| Luc.500 | [] But nothing can affection's course control |
| MA IV.i.155 | [Friar to all] I have only silent been so long, / And given way unto this course of fortune / By noting of the lady |
| MA IV.i.210 | [Friar to all, of his plan causing the slander of Hero to change to remorse] But not for that dream I on this strange course |
| MA V.iv.6 | [Leonato to all] Margaret was in some fault for this ... as it appears / In the true course of all the question. |
| MM IV.iii.147 | [disguised Duke to Isabella] Trust not my holy order / If I pervert your course |
| MM V.i.35.1 | [Angelo to Duke, of Isabella] She hath been a suitor to me for her brother, / Cut off by course of justice |
| MV IV.i.8 | [Antonio to Duke, of Shylock] Your grace hath ta'en great pains to qualify / His rigorous course |
| Oth I.iii.111 | [First Senator to Othello] Did you by indirect and forcèd courses / Subdue and poison this young maid's affections? |
| Oth I.iii.91 | [Othello to all] I will a round unvarnished tale deliver / Of my whole course of love |
| Oth II.i.260 | [Iago to Roderigo, of angering Cassio] either by speaking too loud, or tainting his discipline, or from what other course you please |
| Oth II.iii.328 | [Iago alone] this advice is ... indeed the course / To win the Moor again? |
| Oth II.iii.339 | [Iago alone] How am I then a villain / To counsel Cassio to this parallel course / Directly to his good? |
| Oth III.iv.117 | [Cassio to Desdemona, of not being reconciled to Othello] So shall I clothe me in a forced content, / And shut myself up in some other course / To Fortune's alms |
| Oth IV.i.53 | [Iago to Cassio, of Othello] The lethargy must have his quiet course |
| Per I.i.137 | [Pericles alone] those men / Blush not in actions blacker than the night / Will shun no course to keep them from the light |
| Per I.ii.23 | [Pericles alone, of Antiochus] And what may make him blush in being known, / He'll stop the course by which it might be known |
| Per IV.iii.28.1 | [Cleon to Dionyza, of anyone agreeing to her actions] he did not flow / From honourable courses |
| Per IV.iii.36 | [Dionyza to Cleon] you call my course unnatural |
| Per IV.iv.47 | [Gower] Let Pericles believe his daughter's dead, / And bear his courses to be ordered / By Lady Fortune |
| Per IV.vi.119 | [Boult to Marina] We must take another course with you |
| R2 II.i.213 | [York to King Richard] by bad courses may be understood / That their events can never fall out good |
| R3 I.iv.221 | [Clarence to Murderers, of God] He needs no indirect or lawless course / To cut off those that have offended Him |
| R3 III.i.31 | [Buckingham to all, of the Queen and Prince taking sanctuary] what an indirect and peevish course / Is this of hers! |
| RJ IV.i.5 | [Friar Laurence to Paris] Uneven is the course. I like it not |
| RJ V.iii.27 | [Romeo to Balthasar] do not interrupt me in my course |
| TC V.iii.74 | [Hector to Priam] give me leave / To take that course by your consent and voice, / Which you do here forbid me |
| Tem II.i.292 | [Antonio to Sebastian, of Gonzalo] who / Should not upbraid our course |
| TG II.vii.27 | [Julia to Lucetta, of love] when his fair course is not hindered |
| Tim I.i.49 | [Poet to Painter] No levelled malice / Infects one comma in the course I hold |
| Tim III.iii.41 | [Servant alone] this is all a liberal course allows: / Who cannot keep his wealth must keep his house |
| Tim III.iv.12 | [Lucius's Servant to Philotus] a prodigal course / Is like the sun |
| Tim V.i.101 | [Timon to Poet and Painter, of villains] Confound them by some course |
| Tit II.i.110 | [Aaron to Chiron and Demetrius] A speedier course than ling'ring languishment / Must we pursue |
| Tit IV.i.118 | [Titus to Young Lucius, of not using his dagger] I'll teach thee another course |
| Tit IV.iv.67 | [Aemilius to Saturninus, of Lucius] Who threats in course of this revenge to do / As much as ever Coriolanus did |
| TNK III.vi.304 | [Theseus to Arcite and Palamon] Sleep till the hour prefixed, and hold your course |
| TNK IV.i.127.1 | [Gaoler's Daughter to First Friend, of leaving the other women alone] is't not a wise course? |
| Ven.960 | [] through the flood-gates breaks the silver rain, / and with his strong course opens them again [or: sense 6] |
| WT I.ii.245 | [Leontes to Camillo] thou art a coward ... restraining / From course required |
| WT I.ii.340 | [Leontes to Camillo] Thou dost advise me / Even so as I mine own course have set down |
| WT II.iii.48 | [Paulina to Leontes, of Antigonus] Unless he take the course that you have done |
| WT IV.iv.499 | [Florizel to Camillo] What course I mean to hold / Shall nothing benefit your knowledge |