| Ham II.ii.246 | [Hamlet to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern] there are many confines, wards, and dungeons |
| MM IV.iii.61 | [Barnadine to disguised Duke] come to my ward |
| MM V.i.10 | [Duke to Angelo, of Angelo's deserving] To lock it in the wards of covert bosom |
| Sonn.133.9 | [] Prison my heart in thy steel bosom's ward |