| 1H6 II.iv.111 | [Richard to Somerset, of his rose] Or flourish to the height of my degree |
| 1H6 III.i.20 | [Gloucester to Winchester] Thou art ... wanton, more than well beseems / A man of thy profession and degree |
| 1H6 V.i.29 | [Exeter to himself] What, is my lord of Winchester installed, / And called unto a cardinal's degree? |
| 2H6 V.i.73 | [King to Iden] what is thy degree? |
| E3 IV.v.104 | [King John to Salisbury] Say ... of what degree thou art |
| H5 IV.vii.133 | [King Henry to Fluellen, of Williams] It may be his enemy is a gentleman of great sort, quite from the answer of his degree |
| KL V.iii.109 | [Herald reading a proclamation] If any man of quality or degree |
| LLL V.ii.504 | [Costard to Berowne, of Pompey] I know not the degree of the Worthy, but I am to stand for him |
| Mac III.iv.1 | [Macbeth to all] You know your own degrees, sit down |
| MV II.ix.41 | [Arragon to himself] O that estates, degrees, and offices / Were not derived corruptly |
| MW III.iv.47 | [Slender to Anne, of his maintaining her] that I will, come cut and long-tail, under the degree of a squire [i.e. in accordance with the rank of a squire] |
| Oth II.iii.89 | [Iago singing] thou art but of low degree |
| Oth III.iii.228 | [Iago to Othello, of Desdemona] Not to affect many proposed matches / Of her own clime, complexion, and degree |
| R3 III.vii.142 | [Richard to Buckingham] I cannot tell if to depart in silence ... / Best fitteth my degree or your condition |
| R3 III.vii.187 | [Buckingham to Richard, of Queen Elizabeth and King Edward] [a] widow ... / Seduced the pitch and height of his degree |
| TC I.iii.101 | [Ulysses to all] when degree is shaked ... / The enterprise is sick |
| TC I.iii.104 | [Ulysses to all] How could communities, / Degrees in schools ... / But by degree, stand in authentic place? [first instance; i.e. academic rankings] |
| TC I.iii.83 | [Ulysses to all] Degree being vizarded, / Th'unworthiest shows as fairly in the mask |
| Tim IV.i.19 | [Timon alone] Degrees, observances, customs, and laws, / Decline to your confounding contraries |
| Tim V.i.206 | [Timon to Senators, of the Athenians] in the sequence of degree / From high to low throughout |
| TN I.iii.104 | [Sir Toby to Sir Andrew, of Olivia] she'll not match above her degree |
| TN I.iii.111 | [Sir Andrew to Sir Toby, of being as good as any man] under the degree of my betters |
| TN III.iv.78 | [Malvolio alone, of Olivia addressing him] Not 'Malvolio', nor after my degree, but 'fellow'! |
| WT II.i.85 | [Leontes to Hermione] O thou thing / Which I'll not call a creature of thy place, / Lest barbarism ... / Should a like language use to all degrees |