| 2H4 IV.i.72 | [Archbishop to Westmorland] We see which way the stream of time doth run / And are enforced from our most quiet there / By the rough torrent of occasion |
| E3 V.i.129 | [Salisbury to King Edward, of the army surrounding Prince Edward] to see the occasion with our eyes |
| KJ IV.ii.125 | [King John to himself, as if to fortune] Withhold thy speed, dreadful occasion! |
| Mac II.ii.70 | [Lady Macbeth to Macbeth] Get on your nightgown., lest occasion call us / And show us to be watchers |
| TS III.ii.101 | [Tranio as Lucentio to Petruchio] tell us what occasion of import / Hath all so long detained you |