| 1H4 III.ii.8 | [King Henry to Prince Hal] thou dost in thy passages of life / Make me believe that thou art only marked / For ... the rod of heaven |
| Cym III.iv.93 | [Innogen as if to Posthumus, of her behaviour] It is no act of common passage |
| H8 II.iv.165 | [King Henry to Wolsey, of the divorce] You ... oft have hindered, oft, / The passages made toward it |
| Ham IV.vii.111 | [Claudius to Laertes] in passages of proof [i.e. well-attested cases] |
| RJ I.prologue.9 | [Chorus, of Romeo and Juliet] The fearful passage of their death-marked love |
| TC II.iii.130 | [Agamemnon to Patroclus, of Achilles] [we] watch / His pettish lunes, his ebbs, his flows, as if / The passage and whole carriage of this action / Rode on his tide |
| TN III.ii.68 | [Maria to Sir Toby and Fabian, of Malvolio] there is no Christian ... can ever believe such impossible passages of grossness [i.e. flagrantly impossible proceedings] |
| TNK IV.iii.97 | [Doctor to Wooer] I will between the passages of this project come in with my appliance |
| WT III.ii.89 | [Leontes to Hermione] thou / Shalt feel our justice, in whose easiest passage / Look for no less than death |