| 2H6 I.iv.17 | [Bolingbroke to Duchess, of the middle of the night] The time when screech-owls cry |
| 2H6 III.ii.327 | [Suffolk to Queen, of the King and Warwick] Their music frightful as the serpent's hiss, / And boding screech-owls make the consort full! |
| 3H6 II.vi.56 | [Edward to Warwick] Bring forth that fatal screech-owl to our house |
| TC V.x.16 | [Troilus to Aeneas] Let him that will a screech-owl aye be called / Go into Troy, and say there 'Hector's dead' |