| AYL III.ii.282 | [Orlando to Jaques, of Jaques' image] Which I take to be either a fool or a cipher |
| H5 I.chorus.17 | [Chorus, of the actors] ciphers to this great account |
| LLL I.ii.55 | [Mote to himself, of Armado] To prove you a cipher |
| MM II.ii.39 | [Angelo to Isabella] Mine were the very cipher of a function, / To fine the faults ... / And let go by the actor |
| WT I.ii.6 | [Polixenes to Leontes] like a cipher / Yet standing in rich place [i.e. a zero at the end of a number increases its value] |