| AW IV.iii.323 | [Parolles alone] the thing I am / Shall make me live |
| Cym I.i.16 | [First Gentleman to Second Gentleman, of Cloten] He that hath missed the princess is a thing / Too bad for bad report |
| TNK II.ii.51 | [Second Countryman to the others] our thing of learning says so [i.e. the schoolmaster] |