| 1H6 V.v.69 | [Suffolk to all, of Margaret] Her peerless feature, joined with her birth, / Approves her fit to none but for a king |
| 2H4 I.ii.161 | [Falstaff to Lord Chief Justice, of his body] if I did say of wax, my growth would approve the truth |
| 2H6 III.ii.22 | [King to all, of Gloucester] from true evidence ... / He be approved in practice culpable |
| AC I.i.60 | [Demetrius to Philo, of Antony] I am full sorry / That he approves the common liar [i.e. proves what the liar says to be true] |
| AW I.ii.10 | [First Lord to King, of Austria] His love and wisdom, / Approved so to your majesty |
| AW I.iii.223 | [Helena to Countess, of her father's prescriptions] Amongst the rest / There is a remedy, approved, set down |
| AW III.vii.13 | [Widow to Helena] you have showed me that which well approves / Y'are great in fortune |
| Cor IV.iii.9 | [Volsce to Roman] your favour is well approved by your tongue [F appeared] |
| Cym IV.ii.380 | [Lucius to disguised Innogen, of her adopted name Fidele] Thou dost approve thyself the very same |
| Cym V.v.245 | [Cornelius to Pisanio] I left out one thing ... / Which must approve thee honest |
| E3 I.i.48 | [King Edward to Artois] [I] will approve fair Isabel's descent [i.e. prove it valid] |
| E3 III.iii.118 | [Prince Edward to King John, of John's words] that approves thee, tyrant, what thou art |
| H8 II.iii.74 | [Lord Chamberlain to Anne] I shall not fail t'approve the fair conceit / The King hath of you |
| Ham I.i.29 | [Marcellus to Barnardo, of Horatio and the Ghost] if again this apparition come, / He may approve our eyes and speak to it |
| KL I.i.184 | [Kent to Gonerill and Regan] your large speeches may your deeds approve |
| KL II.ii.158 | [Kent alone] Good King, that must approve the common saw |
| KL II.iv.178 | [Regan to Cornwall, of the trumpet-call announcing Gonerill] This approves her letter |
| KL III.v.9 | [Edmund to Cornwall, of Gloucester's letter] which approves him an intelligent party to the advantages of France |
| MA IV.i.297 | [Beatrice to Benedick, of Claudio] Is he not approved in the height a villain |
| Mac I.vi.4 | [Banquo to King] The temple-haunting martlet, does approve / By his loved mansionry that the heaven's breath / Smells wooingly here |
| MND II.ii.74 | [Puck to himself, of his search for an Athenian] On whose eyes I might approve / This flower's force in stirring love |
| MV III.ii.79 | [Bassanio to himself] In religion, / What damned error but some sober brow / Will bless it and approve it with a text |
| Oth II.iii.58 | [Iago alone] If consequence do but approve my dream |
| Sonn.147.7 | [] I desperate now approve / Desire is death |
| Sonn.70.5 | [] slander doth but approve, / Thy worth the greater |
| TC III.ii.172 | [Troilus to Cressida] True swains in love shall ... / Approve their truths by Troilus |
| TG V.iv.43 | [Proteus to Silvia] 'tis the curse in love, and still approved, / When women cannot love where they're beloved! [i.e. it is confirmed by experience] |
| Tit II.i.35 | [Chiron to Demetrius, of his fitness for Lavinia's love] that my sword upon thee shall approve |
| TNK IV.iii.95 | [Doctor to Wooer] I have seen it approved |
| WT IV.ii.27 | [Polixenes to Camillo, of Florizel] Kings are no less unhappy, their issue not being gracious, than they are in losing them when they have approved their virtues |