| 1H4 IV.iii.79 | [Hotspur to Blunt, of King Henry] to reform / Some certain edicts and some strait decrees / That lie too heavy on the commonwealth |
| 2H6 III.ii.258 | [Salisbury to King, of imposing a death penalty] notwithstanding such a strait edict |
| Tim I.i.100 | [Messenger to Timon, of Ventidius] His means most short, his creditors most strait |