All's Well That Ends Well > 2.3 > {Parolles} My lord, you do me most insupportable vexation.
All's Well That Ends Well > 3.5 > {Mariana} He's shrewdly vexed at something: look, he has spied us.
Cymbeline > 1.1 > {Imogen} I beseech you, sir, > Harm not yourself with your vexation
Cymbeline > 1.6 > {Imogen} and those repeated > Vexations of it!
Cymbeline > 2.1 > {Cloten} I am not vexed more at any thing in the earth: a > pox on't! I had rather not be so noble as I am;
Cymbeline > 3.5 > {Cloten} when my lust hath dined,--which, as I say, to vex > her
Cymbeline > 5.5 > {Silinius Leonatus} Thou shouldst have been, and shielded him > From this earth-vexing smart
Much Ado About Nothing > 2.2 > {Borachio} Proof enough to misuse the prince, to vex Claudio, > to undo Hero and kill Leonato. Look you for any > other issue?
The Tempest > 1.2 > {Ariel} Thou call'dst me up at midnight to fetch dew > From the still-vex'd Bermoothes, there she's hid:
The Tempest > 4.1 > {Prospero} I tender to thy hand: all thy vexations > Were but my trials of thy love and thou > Hast strangely stood the test here, afore Heaven, > I ratify this my rich gift.
The Tempest > 4.1 > {Prospero} ... We are such stuff > As dreams are made on, and our little life > Is rounded with a sleep. Sir, I am vex'd; > Bear with my weakness; my, brain is troubled: > Be not disturb'd with my infirmity: > If you be pleased, retire into my cell > And there repose: a turn or two I'll walk, > To still my beating mind.
The Taming of the Shrew > 3.2 > {Baptista} Go, girl; I cannot blame thee now to weep; > For such an injury would vex a very saint,
Pericles, Prince of Tyre > 2.2 > {Thaisa} And his device, a wreath of chivalry; > The word, 'Me pompae provexit apex.'
Twelfth Night > 3.4 > {Olivia} Here, wear this jewel for me, 'tis my picture; > Refuse it not; it hath no tongue to vex you; > And I beseech you come again to-morrow. > What shall you ask of me that I'll deny, > That honour saved may upon asking give?
Twelfth Night > 4.2 > {Clown} Out, hyperbolical fiend! how vexest thou this man! > talkest thou nothing but of ladies?
The Two Gentlemen of Verona > 3.1 > {Proteus} And should she thus be stol'n away from you, > It would be much vexation to your age.
The Two Gentlemen of Verona > 4.4 > {Proteus} Go get thee hence, and find my dog again, > Or ne'er return again into my sight. > Away, I say! stay'st thou to vex me here?
The Winter's Tale > 1.2 > {Leontes} Make that thy question, and go rot! > Dost think I am so muddy, so unsettled, > To appoint myself in this vexation,
The Winter's Tale > 5.1 > {Leontes} Where we're offenders now, appear soul-vex'd, > And begin, 'Why to me?' > {Paulina} Had she such power, > She had just cause.
King Richard III > 4.4 > {King Richard III} Of an one pain, save for a night of groans > Endured of her, for whom you bid like sorrow.> Your children were vexation to your youth,
1 King Henry IV > 3.1 > {Hotspur} In strange eruptions; oft the teeming earth > Is with a kind of colic pinch'd and vex'd > By the imprisoning of unruly wind
1 King Henry VI > 1.4 > {Master-Gunner} Wont, through a secret grate of iron bars > In yonder tower, to overpeer the city, > And thence discover how with most advantage > They may vex us with shot, or with assault.
1 King Henry VI > 4.3 > {York} Away! vexation almost stops my breath, > That sunder'd friends greet in the hour of death.
2 King Henry VI > 1.3 > {Queen Margaret} Not all these lords do vex me half so much
3 King Henry VI > 2.6 > {George} If so thou think'st, vex him with eager words.
King Henry VIII > 2.4 > {Queen Katherine} What need you note it? pray you, keep your way: > When you are call'd, return. Now, the Lord help, > They vex me past my patience! Pray you, pass on:
King Henry VIII > 3.2 > {Wolsey} one > Hath crawl'd into the favour of the king, > And is his oracle. > {Norfolk} He is vex'd at something.
King Henry VIII > 5.3 > {Norfolk} Do you think, my lords, > The king will suffer but the little finger > Of this man to be vex'd?
King John > 2.1 > {King Philip}  Our cannons' malice vainly shall be spent > Against the invulnerable clouds of heaven; > And with a blessed and unvex'd retire, > With unhack'd swords and helmets all unbruised, > We will bear home that lusty blood again > Which here we came to spout against your town,
King John > 2.1 > {King John} Say, shall the current of our right run on? > Whose passage, vex'd with thy impediment, > Shall leave his native channel and o'erswell > With course disturb'd even thy confining shores, > Unless thou let his silver water keep > A peaceful progress to the ocean.
King John > 3.1 > {Constance} With my vex'd spirits I cannot take a truce, > But they will quake and tremble all this day.
King John > 3.4 > {Lewis} Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man;
King Richard II > 1.1 > {Thomas Mowbray} Once did I lay an ambush for your life, > A trespass that doth vex my grieved soul > But ere I last received the sacrament > I did confess it, and exactly begg'd > Your grace's pardon, and I hope I had it.
King Richard II > 2.1 > {Duke of York} Vex not yourself, nor strive not with your breath; >  For all in vain comes counsel to his ear.
King Richard II > 3.1 > {Henry Bolingbroke} Bushy and Green, I will not vex your souls-- > Since presently your souls must part your bodies--
Othello > 1.1 > {Iago} though that his joy be joy, Yet throw such changes of vexation on't, As it may lose some colour.
King Lear > 3.4 > {Edgar} --O, do > de, do de, do de. Bless thee from whirlwinds, > star-blasting, and taking! Do poor Tom some > charity, whom the foul fiend vexes: there could I > have him now,--and there,--and there again, and there.
King Lear > 4.4 > {Cordelia} As mad as the vex'd sea; singing aloud;
King Lear > 5.3 > {Edgar} Look up, my lord. > {Kent} Vex not his ghost: O, let him pass! he hates him much > That would upon the rack of this tough world > Stretch him out longer.
Antony and Cleopatra > 1.2 > {Chairman} Wrinkles forbid! > {Alexas} Vex not his prescience; be attentive. > {Chairman} Hush! > {Soothsayer} You shall be more beloving than beloved.
Coriolanus > 3.3 > {Sicinius} As he hath followed you, with all despite; > Give him deserved vexation.
Coriolanus > 4.2 > {Sicinius} The nobility are vex'd, whom we see have sided > In his behalf. > {Brutus} Now we have shown our power, > Let us seem humbler after it is done > Than when it was a-doing.
Romeo and Juliet > 1.1 > {Romeo} Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs; > Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; > Being vex'd a sea nourish'd with lovers' tears: > What is it else? a madness most discreet, > A choking gall and a preserving sweet.
Romeo and Juliet > 2.4 > {Nurse} Now, afore God, I am so vexed, that every part about > me quivers. Scurvy knave! Pray you, sir, a word:
Romeo and Juliet > 3.5 > {Juliet} till I behold him-- dead-- > Is my poor heart for a kinsman vex'd.
Timon of Athens > 4.3 > {Timon} Why dost thou seek me out? > {Apemantus} To vex thee.
Titus Andronicus > 5.1 > {Lucius} A sight to vex the father's soul withal. > Get me a ladder.
Titus Andronicus > 5.1 > {Aaron} An if it please thee! why, assure thee, Lucius, > 'Twill vex thy soul to hear what I shall speak;
Julius Caesar > 1.2 > {Brutus} Merely upon myself. Vexed I am > Of late with passions of some difference, > Conceptions only proper to myself, > Which give some soil perhaps to my behaviors; > But let not therefore my good friends be grieved-- > Among which number, Cassius, be you one-- > Nor construe any further my neglect, > Than that poor Brutus, with himself at war, > Forgets the shows of love to other men.
Julius Caesar > 4.3 > {Cassius} Hath Cassius lived > To be but mirth and laughter to his Brutus, > When grief, and blood ill-temper'd, vexeth him?
A Midsummer Night's Dream > 1.1 > {Egeus} Full of vexation come I, with complaint
A Midsummer Night's Dream > 4.1 > {Oberon} And think no more of this night's accidents > But as the fierce vexation of a dream.
The Rape of Lucrece > The deep vexation of his inward soul > Hath served a dumb arrest upon his tongue;
Sonnet XCII > I see a better state to me belongs > Than that which on thy humour doth depend; > Thou canst not vex me with inconstant mind,
Sonnet CXXXV > More than enough am I that vex thee still, > To thy sweet will making addition thus.
Sonnet CXLVIII > How can it? O, how can Love's eye be true, > That is so vex'd with watching and with tears?