| 2H4 II.iv.20 | [Francis to Will, of the plan to fool Falstaff] It will be an excellent stratagem |
| AW III.vi.32 | [Second Lord to Bertram, of Parolles recapturing his drum] he says he has a stratagem for't |
| H5 IV.viii.107 | [King Henry to all] When, without stratagem, / But in plain shock and even play of battle, / Was ever known so great and little loss |
| RJ III.v.210 | [Juliet to Nurse] alack, that heaven should practise stratagems / Upon so soft a subject as myself! |
| Tit II.iii.5 | [Aaron alone] this gold must coin a stratagem |