| 1H4 I.iii.257 | [Worcester to Hotspur] make the Douglas' son your only mean / For powers in Scotland |
| 1H6 III.ii.10 | [First Soldier to Pucelle] Our sacks shall be a mean to sack the city |
| 2H6 IV.viii.67 | [Buckingham to rebels] we'll devise a mean / To reconcile you all unto the King |
| AC III.ii.32 | [Caesar to Antony, of Octavia] better might we / Have loved without this mean |
| AC IV.vi.35 | [Enobarbus alone, of his heart] If swift thought break it not, a swifter mean / Shall outstrike thought |
| CE I.ii.18 | [Dromio of Syracuse to Antipholus of Syracuse] having so good a mean |
| H8 V.iii.146 | [King Henry to Councillors, of Cranmer] There's some of ye ... / Would try him to the utmost, had ye mean |
| JC III.i.161 | [Antony to all] No place will please me so, no mean of death, / As here by Caesar |
| Luc.1045 | [Lucrece to herself] I ... seek in vain / Some happy mean to end a hapless life |
| MM II.iv.95 | [Angelo to Isabella, of Claudio] No earthly mean to save him |
| Oth III.i.36 | [Iago to Cassio] I'll devise a mean to draw the Moor / Out of the way |
| Oth III.iii.247 | [Iago to Othello, of Cassio] You shall ... perceive him and his means |
| RJ III.iii.46 | [Romeo to Friar] Hadst thou ... / No sudden mean of death |
| TG II.vii.5 | [Julia to Lucetta] tell me some good mean / How ... I may undertake / A journey |
| TG III.i.38 | [Proteus to Duke, of Silvia and Valentine] they have devised a mean / How he her chamber-window will ascend |
| TG IV.iv.105 | [disguised Julia to Silvia] be my mean / To bring me where to speak with Madam Silvia |
| WT IV.iv.89 | [disguised Polixenese to Perdita] Nature is made better by no mean / But Nature makes that mean |