It would seem that Shakespeare loved spleens as much as we do. For maximum splenetic pleasure, click on the reference to get to the correct scene in the play, then use your broswer's "search" capability to find the spleen reference in that scene. (on Mosaic for X, it is Control-S)
Search results: "spleen"
Play: Henry VIII Act: 2 Scene: 4
I have no spleen against you; nor injustice
Is cramm'd with arrogancy, spleen, and pride.
Play: Timon of Athens Act: 3 Scene: 5
It is a cause worthy my spleen and fury,
Play: As You Like It Act: 4 Scene: 1
of thought, conceived of spleen and born of madness,
Play: Love's Labours Lost Act: 5 Scene: 2
That in this spleen ridiculous appears,
Play: Henry VI, part 1 Act: 4 Scene: 6
Quicken'd with youthful spleen and warlike rage,
Play: Henry VIII Act: 1 Scene: 2
You charge not in your spleen a noble person
Play: Richard III Act: 5 Scene: 3
Inspire us with the spleen of fiery dragons!
Play: King John Act: 2 Scene: 1
With swifter spleen than powder can enforce,
Play: King John Act: 4 Scene: 3
Or teach thy hasty spleen to do me shame,
Play: King John Act: 5 Scene: 7
And spleen of speed to see your majesty!
(he really liked spleens in John, huh?)
Play: The Tragedy of King Lear Act: 1 Scene: 4
Create her child of spleen; that it may live,
Play: Romeo and Juliet Act: 3 Scene: 1
Could not take truce with the unruly spleen
Play: Coriolanus Act: 4 Scene: 5
Against my canker'd country with the spleen
Play: Othello Act: 4 Scene: 1
Or I shall say you are all in all in spleen,
Play: Julius Caesar Act: 4 Scene: 3
You shall digest the venom of your spleen,
Play: A Midsummer Night's Dream Act: 1 Scene: 1
That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth,
Play: Love's Labours Lost Act: 3 Scene: 1
thought my spleen; the heaving of my lungs provokes
Play: Taming of the Shrew Act: 3 Scene: 2
Unto a mad-brain rudesby full of spleen;
Play: Troilus and Cressida Act: 1 Scene: 3
In pleasure of my spleen.' And in this fashion,
Play: Troilus and Cressida Act: 2 Scene: 2
Such things as might offend the weakest spleen
Play: Twelfth Night Act: 3 Scene: 2
If you desire the spleen, and will laugh yourself
Play: Henry VI, part 3 Act: 2 Scene: 1
That robb'd my soldiers of their heated spleen;
Play: Henry IV, part 1 Act: 2 Scene: 3
A weasel hath not such a deal of spleen
Play: Henry IV, part 1 Act: 3 Scene: 2
Base inclination and the start of spleen
Play: Henry IV, part 1 Act: 5 Scene: 2
A hair-brain'd Hotspur, govern'd by a spleen:
Play: Richard III Act: 2 Scene: 4
And frantic outrage, end thy damned spleen;
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