| LLL V.ii.328 | [Berowne to all, of Boyet] he can sing / A mean most meanly |
| TG I.ii.95 | [Lucetta to Julia] There wanteth but a mean to fill your song [i.e. a man] |
| WT IV.iii.42 | [Clown to himself, of the shearer singers] they are most of them means and basses |