- Best while you have it use your breath,
There is no drinking after death.
- The Bloody Brother, or Rollo Duke of Normandy (with Jonson, performed c. 1616), act 2, sc. 2, "Song"
- And he that will go to bed sober,
Falls with the leaf still in October.
- The Bloody Brother, act 2, sc. 2, "Song"
- Three merry boys, and three merry boys,
And three merry boys are we,
As ever did sing in a hempen string
Under the Gallows-Tree.
- The Bloody Brother, act 3, sc. 2
- Come, we are stark naught all, bad’s the best of us.
- The Bloody Brother, act 4, sc. 2
- Death hath so many doors to let out life.
- The Custom of the Country (with Massinger), act 2, sc. 2
- Orpheus with his lute made trees,
And the mountain tops that freeze,
Bow themselves when he did sing.
- Henry VIII (with Shakespeare, performed 1613), act 3, sc. 1, "Song"
- In sweet music is such art
Killing care and grief of heart
Fall asleep, or hearing die.
- Henry VIII, act 3, sc. 1, "Song"
- Our acts our angels are, or good or ill,
Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.
- The Honest Man’s Fortune, epilogue
- Nothing’s so dainty sweet, as lovely melancholy.
- The Nice Valour (with Middleton), act 3, sc. 3, "Song"
- Are you at ease now? Is your heart at rest?
Now you have got a shadow, an umbrella
To keep the scorching world’s opinion
From your fair credit.
- Rule a Wife and Have a Wife (performed 1624), act 3, sc. 1
- Daisies smell-less, yet most quaint,
And sweet thyme true,
Primrose first born child of Ver,
Merry Springtime’s Harbinger.
- Care-charming Sleep, thou easer of all woes,
Brother to Death.
- Valentinian (performed c. 1610–14), act 5, sc. 7, "Song"
- Come sing now, sing; for I know ye sing well,
I see ye have a singing face.
- The Wild-Goose Chase (performed 1621), act 2, sc. 2
- Whistle and she’ll come to you.
- Wit Without Money, act 4, sc. 4
- Charity and beating begins at home.
- Wit Without Money, act 5, sc. 2
