| 1H6 V.iii.195 | [Suffolk alone, as if to himself] when thou comest to kneel at Henry's feet, / Thou mayst bereave him of his wits with wonder |
| 2H6 I.i.81 | [Gloucester to all] did my brother Bedford toil his wits / To keep by policy what Henry got? |
| KL I.iv.165 | [Fool singing] wise men are grown foppish / And know not how their wits to wear |
| KL III.ii.67.2 | [Lear to Fool] My wits begin to turn |
| KL III.iv.155.1 | [disguised Kent to Gloucester] His wits begin t'unsettle |
| KL III.iv.55 | [Edgar as Poor Tom to Lear] Bless thy five wits! |
| KL III.vi.4 | [disguised Kent to Gloucester, of lear] All the power of his wits have given way to his impatience |
| KL III.vi.56 | [Edgar as Poor Tom to Lear] Bless thy five wits! |
| KL III.vi.85 | [disguised Kent to Gloucester, of Lear] trouble him not; his wits are gone |
| KL IV.i.56 | [Edgar as Poor Tom to Gloucester, of himself] Tom hath been scared out of his good wits |
| KL IV.vii.41 | [Cordelia to sleeping Lear] 'Tis wonder that thy life and wits at once / Had not concluded all |
| LC.161 | For when we rage, advice is often seen / By blunting us to make our wits more keen |
| LLL I.i.27 | [Dumaine to all] dainty bits / Make rich the ribs but bankrupt quite the wits |
| LLL II.i.54 | [Princess to all, of Longaville] Such short-lived wits do wither as they grow [or: wit, sense 6] |
| LLL V.ii.264 | [King to ladies] Farewell, mad wenches. You have simple wits |
| LLL V.ii.268 | [Rosaline to all, of the lords] Well-liking wits they have; gross, gross; fat, fat |
| LLL V.ii.64 | [Rosaline to Princess, of Berowne] I would make him ... spend his prodigal wits in bootless rhymes |
| LLL V.ii.85 | [Boyet to ladies] Muster your wits |
| Luc.1816 | [of Brutus] armed his long-hid wits advisedly |
| Luc.290 | [of Lucrece and Tarquin] That eye which looks on her confounds his wits |
| Luc.859 | [of an old man] useless barns the harvest of his wits |
| MA I.i.61 | [Beatrice to Leonato, of Benedick] four of his five wits went halting off, and now is the whole man governed with one |
| MA III.v.10 | [Dogberry to Leonato, of Verges] his wits are not so blunt as ... I would desire they were |
| MM V.i.33 | [Angelo to Duke, of Isabella] her wits, I fear me, are not firm |
| Oth I.i.93.2 | [Brabantio to Roderigo] What, have you lost your wits? |
| Oth I.iii.352 | [Iago to Roderigo] not too hard for my wits |
| Oth IV.i.271 | [Lodovico to Iago, of Othello] Are his wits safe? |
| R3 I.ii.115 | [Richard to Anne] leave this keen encounter of our wits |
| RJ I.iv.47 | [Mercutio to Romeo] Take our good meaning, for our judgement sits / Five times in that ere once in our five wits |
| RJ II.iv.66 | [Mercutio to Benvolio] My wits faint. |
| RJ II.iv.72 | [Mercutio to Romeo] thou hast more of the wild goose in one of thy wits than ... I have in my whole five |
| RJ IV.i.47 | [Friar Laurence to Juliet, of her grief] It strains me past the compass of my wits |
| Sonn.141.9 | [] But my five wits, not my five senses can / Dissuade one foolish heart from serving thee |
| TG I.i.44 | [Proteus to Valentine] eating love / Inhabits in the finest wits of all |
| Tim IV.iii.89 | [Alcibiades to Timandra, of Timon] Pardon him, sweet Timandra, for his wits / Are drowned and lost in his calamities |
| Tit IV.iv.10 | [Saturninus to all, of Titus] what and if / His sorrows have so overwhelmed his wits? |
| TN III.iv.13 | [Maria to Olivia, of Malvolio] the man is tainted in's wits |
| TN IV.ii.58 | [Feste as Sir Topas to Malvolio] Thou shalt hold the opinion of Pythagoras ere I will allow of thy wits |
| TN IV.ii.86 | [Feste to Malvolio] how fell you besides your five wits? |
| TN V.i.294 | [Olivia to feste, of not reading a letter as a madman] Prithee, read i'thy right wits |
| TNK I.i.118 | [Third Queen to Emilia] Extremity that sharpens sundry wits / Makes me a fool |
| TS I.i.176 | [Tranio to Lucentio] If you love the maid, / Bend thoughts and wits to achieve her |
| Ven.249 | [] Being mad before, how doth she now for wits? |