| 1H6 I.ii.63 | [Charles to Reignier, of their way of testing Pucelle] By this means shall we sound what skill she hath |
| 2H4 IV.ii.51 | [Prince John to Hastings] You are too shallow ... / To sound the bottom of the after-times [i.e. plumb the depths] |
| Cym IV.ii.204 | [Belarius to Arviragus and Guiderius] O melancholy, / Who ever yet could sound thy bottom [i.e. plumb thy depths] |
| MW II.i.219 | [Ford alone] I have a disguise to sound Falstaff |
| R2 I.i.8 | [King Richard to John of Gaunt, of Bolingbroke] hast thou sounded him |