| 1H4 I.iii.174 | [Hotspur to Northumberland and Worcester, of King Henry] this canker Bolingbroke [also: sense 2] |
| 1H4 IV.ii.29 | [Falstaff alone, of those in his command] the cankers of a calm world and a long peace |
| 2H6 I.ii.18 | [Gloucester to Duchess] Banish the canker of ambitious thoughts! |
| E3 I.ii.27 | [King David to Lorraine, of the horses] never shall ... rusting canker have the time to eat / Their light-borne snaffles [i.e. the cancer of rust] |
| Ham V.ii.69 | [Hamlet to Horatio, of Claudius] is't not to be damned / To let this canker of our nature come / In further evil? |
| KJ V.ii.14 | [Salisbury to Lewis the Dauphin] I am not glad that such a sore of time / Should ... heal the inveterate canker of one wound / By making many |
| Tem I.ii.416 | [Prospero to Miranda, of Ferdinand] he's something stained / With grief, that's beauty's canker |
| Tim IV.iii.50 | [Timon to Alcibiades] The canker gnaw thy heart / For showing me again the eyes of man! |