| 1H4 I.iii.226 | [Hotspur to Northumberland and Worcester] All studies here I solemnly defy, / Save how to gall and pinch this Bolingbroke |
| 2H4 I.ii.233 | [Falstaff to himself, of young limbs and lechery] the gout galls the one, and the pox pinches the other |
| 2H4 IV.v.30 | [Prince Henry to himself, as if to majesty] When thou dost pinch thy bearer |
| H8 II.iii.1 | [Anne to Old Lady] Here's the pang that pinches |
| Tem V.i.276.2 | [Caliban to all] I shall be pinched to death |
| Tem V.i.74 | [Prospero to charmed Sebastian, of Sebastian's wickedness] Thou art pinched for't now |
| TNK V.iii.133 | [Theseus to all] For the subdued, / Give them our present justice, since I know / Their lives but pinch 'em [i.e. they would be shamed to go on living] |