| Ham V.ii.223 | [Hamlet to Laertes] I am punished with a sore distraction |
| Tem III.iii.91 | [Prospero to Ariel] these, mine enemies, are all knit up / In their distractions |
| TN V.i.311 | [Orsino to Olivia, of Malvolio's letter] This savours not much of distraction |
| TN V.i.65 | [Viola as Cesario to Orsino, of Antonio's behaviour] I know not what 'twas, but distraction |
| TNK IV.iii.1 | [Doctor to Gaoler, of the Gaoler's Daughter] Her distraction is more at some time of the moon than at other some, is it not? |