| AC I.i.16 | [Cleopatra to Antony] I'll set a bourn how far to be beloved |
| Ham III.i.79 | [Hamlet alone, of death] from whose bourn / No traveller returns |
| KL IV.vi.57 | [disguised Edgar to Gloucester, of Gloucester's imagined fall] From the dread summit of this chalky bourn [i.e. at the edge of England] |
| Per IV.iv.4 | [Gower alone] take your imagination / From bourn to bourn |
| TC II.iii.246 | [Ulysses to Ajax, of his wisdom] Which, like a bourn, a pale, a shore, confines / Thy spacious and dilated parts |
| WT I.ii.134 | [Leontes to Mamillius, of dice] one that fixes / No bourn 'twixt his and mine |