| CE II.i.103 | [Adriana to Luciana, of her husband's actions] Unfeeling fools can with such wrongs dispense |
| Luc.1070 | [Lucrece to herself] I ... with my trespass never will dispense, / Till life to death acquit my forced offence |
| Luc.1704 | [Lucrece to all, of the rape] May my pure mind with the foul act dispense |
| MM III.i.138 | [Claudio to Isabella] What sin you do to save a brother's life, / Nature dispenses with the deed so far / That it becomes a virtue |