| MM IV.ii.86 | [disguised Duke alone, of knocking] That wounds th'unsisting postern with these strokes |
| R2 V.v.17 | [Richard alone] It is as hard to come as for a camel / To thread the postern of a small needle's eye |
| TG V.i.9 | [Silvia to Eglamour] Out at the postern by the abbey wall |
| WT I.ii.438 | [Camillo to Polixenes, of Polixenes' followers] by twos and threes, at several posterns, / Clear them o'th' city |
| WT I.ii.464 | [Camillo to Polixenes] It is in mine authority to command / The keys of all the posterns |
| WT II.i.52 | [Leontes to Lord] How came the posterns / So easily open? |