| CE III.ii.12 | [Luciana to Antipholus of Syracuse] Apparel vice like virtue's harbinger |
| Ham I.i.122 | [Horatio to Marcellus and Barnardo, of ominous events] As harbingers preceding still the fates |
| Mac I.iv.46 | [Macbeth to King] I'll be myself the harbinger and make joyful / The hearing of my wife with your approach |
| Mac V.vi.10 | [Macduff to all, of the trumpets] Those clamorous harbingers of blood and death |
| MND III.ii.380 | [Puck to Oberon] yonder shines Aurora's harbinger |
| Phoen.5 | [of the screech-owl] thou shrieking harbinger |
| TNK I.i.8 | [Boy singing of Primrose] Merry springtime's harbinger |