| 2H6 I.i.27 | [Queen to King] The mutual conference that my mind hath had ... / In courtly company or at my beads |
| 2H6 I.iii.54 | [Queen to Suffolk, of the King] all his mind is bent to holiness, / To number Ave-Maries on his beads |
| 3H6 II.i.161 | [Richard to Warwick, of their position] Numbering our Ave-Maries with our beads |
| CE II.ii.197 | [Dromio of Syracuse to himself] O for my beads! |
| R2 III.iii.147 | [King Richard to Aumerle] I'll give my jewels for a set of beads |
| R3 III.vii.92 | [Buckingham to Lord Mayor] When holy ... men / Are at their beads, 'tis much to draw them thence |