| CE I.ii.79 | [Antipholus of Syracuse to Dromio of Ephesus] I shall break that merry sconce of yours |
| CE II.ii.34 | [Antipholus of Syracuse to Dromio of Syracuse] I will beat this method in your sconce. [Dromio] 'Sconce' call you it? [punned in following lines as 'small fort' and as 'shelter'] |
| Cor III.ii.99 | [Coriolanus to Volumnia] Must I go show them my unbarbed sconce? |
| Ham V.i.100 | [Hamlet to Horatio] knock him about the sconce |