Alexander Schmidt, Shakespeare Lexicon and Quotation Dictionary

Obedience, 1) obsequiousness, submission to authority, compliance with command: Lucr. 1215. Tp. II, 1, 130. Meas. III, 1, 254. Mids. I, 1, 37. Shr. V, 2, 117. Shr. V, 2, 117 John V, 1, 9. V, 4, 56. H4B IV, 2, 41. H5 I, 2, 187. H6A III, 1, 167. R3 II, 2, 108. H8 I, 2, 64. II, 4, 35. III, 1, 162. Troil. V, 3, 52. Cor. III, 1, 318. Tim. IV, 1, 4. Mcb. II, 4, 17. Oth. I, 3, 180. Ant. V, 2, 31. Cymb. I, 1, 136. II, 3, 117. III, 4, 68. III, 4, 68 one's o. == a) the obsequiousness observed by one: “make them tame to their o.” John IV, 2, 262. “if you mind to hold your true o.” H6C IV, 1, 140. b) the obsequiousness paid to one: “from whose o. I forbid my soul,” John IV, 3, 64. “reclaimed to your o. fifty fortresses,” H6A III, 4, 6. To give o. == to be obedient: “to give o. where 'tis truly owed,” Mcb. V, 2, 26. With to: “the o. to a master,” Wint. I, 2, 354. “our o. to the king,” H5 IV, 1, 138. H6A I, 1, 164. Cor. III, 1, 166. With of, objectively: “drunkards, liars and adulterers by an enforced o. of planetary influence,” Lr. I, 2, 135.
2) dutifulness, reverence: “I am your wife in all o.” Shr. Ind. 2, 109. “commend my best o. to the queen,” Wint. II, 2, 36. “o. bids I should not bid again,” R2 I, 1, 163. “let me no more from this o. rise, which my most inward true and duteous spirit teacheth this prostrate and exterior bending,” H4B IV, 5, 147. “I do not know what kind of my o. I should tender,” H8 II, 3, 66. “to speak my thanks and my o.” H8 II, 3, 66 “zeal and o. he still bore your grace,” III, 1, 63. “all the fellowship I hold now with him is only my o.” III, 1, 63 “one that in all o. makes the church the chief aim of his honour,” V, 3, 117. “honour, love, o., troops of friends,” Mcb. V, 3, 25. “who in her duty and o. hath given me this,” Hml. II, 2, 107. “you have o. scanted,” Lr. I, 1, 281. “shake in pieces the heart of his o.” I, 2, 92. “whose virtue and o. doth so much commend itself,” II, 1, 115. “if your sweet sway allow o.” II, 4, 194.