| 2H6 III.ii.324 | [Suffolk to Queen, of the King and Warwick] Their chiefest prospect, murdering basilisks! |
| 2H6 III.ii.52 | [King to Suffolk] come, basilisk, / And kill the innocent gazer with thy sight |
| 3H6 III.ii.187 | [Richard alone] I'll slay more gazers than the basilisk |
| Cym II.iv.107 | [Posthumus to Iachimo, of Innogen's ring] It is a basilisk unto mine eye |
| R3 I.ii.150 | [Anne to Richard, of her eyes] Would they were basilisks to strike thee dead! |
| WT I.ii.388 | [Polixenes to Camillo] Make me not sighted like the basilisk |