| 1H6 II.iii.74 | [Talbot to Countess] nor misconster / The mind of Talbot as you did mistake / The outward composition of his body |
| AW I.i.200 | [Helena to Parolles] the composition that your valour and fear makes in you |
| KJ I.i.88 | [Queen Eleanor to King John, of the Bastard] Do you not read some tokens of my son / In the large composition of this man? |
| KL II.ii.19 | [disguised Kent to Oswald, describing him] art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar ... and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch |
| R2 II.i.73 | [John of Gaunt to King Richard, of 'aged'] how that name befits my composition |
| Sonn.45.9 | [] Until life's composition be recured |