| 2H4 I.iii.61 | [Lord Bardolph to Hastings, of someone who stops a building project] [who] leaves his part-created cost / A naked subject to the weeping clouds |
| Cor II.i.80 | [Menenius to Brutus and Sicinius] Our very priests must become mockers, if they shall encounter such ridiculous subjects as you are |
| RJ III.v.211 | [Juliet to Nurse] alack, that heaven should practise stratagems / Upon so soft a subject as myself! |