| 1H4 I.i.33 | [King Henry to all] let me hear ... / What yesternight our Council did decree / In forwarding this dear expedience |
| 1H4 IV.i.34 | [Hotspur to Worcester, of Northumberland] nor did he think it meet / To lay so dangerous and dear a trust / On any soul removed but on his own |
| H5 V.ii.344 | [French King to King Henry, of the treaty between France and England] this dear conjunction / Plant neighbourhood ... / In their sweet bosoms |
| KL III.i.19 | [disguised Kent to Gentleman] I ... dare upon the warrant of my note / Commend a dear thing to you |
| KL IV.iii.51 | [disguised Kent to Gentleman] Some dear cause / Will in concealment wrap me up awhile |
| R3 I.iv.213 | [First Murderer to Clarence, of God's law] thou hast broke it in such dear degree |
| RJ V.ii.19 | [Friar Laurence to Friar John, of his letter to Romeo] The letter was not nice, but full of charge, / Of dear import |
| RJ V.iii.32 | [Romeo to Balthasar, of Juliet's ring] that I must use / In dear employment |