| 1H6 II.iv.11 | [Warwick to all] Between two hawks, which flies the higher pitch |
| 2H6 II.i.6 | [King to Gloucester, of Gloucester's falcon] what a pitch she flew above the rest! |
| E3 II.i.87 | [King Edward to Lodowick] every ornament that thou wouldst praise, / Fly it a pitch above the soar of praise |
| H8 II.ii.48.1 | [Norfolk to Suffolk, of Wolsey] All men's honours / Lie like one lump before him, to be fashioned / Into what pitch he please [unclear meaning] |
| JC I.i.73 | [Flavius to Marullus] These growing feathers plucked from Caesar's wing / Will make him fly an ordinary pitch |
| R2 I.i.109 | [King Richard to all, of Bolingbroke] How high a pitch his resolution soars! |
| RJ I.iv.21 | [Romeo to Mercutio] I am ... so bound / I cannot bound a pitch above dull woe |
| Sonn.7.9 | [of the sun] from highmost pitch with weary car, / Like feeble age he reeleth from the day |
| Sonn.86.6 | [of his rival] by spirits taught to write / Above a mortal pitch |
| Tit II.i.14 | [Aaron alone, of Tamora] mount aloft with thy imperial mistress, / And mount her pitch |