| 2H4 induction.17 | [Rumour alone] Rumour is ... of so easy and so plain a stop [i.e. so easy to be played on] |
| Ham III.ii.368 | [Hamlet to Guildenstern] these are the stops |
| MA III.ii.55 | [Claudio to Don Pedro, of Benedick] his jesting spirit, which is now crept into a lute-string, and now governed by stops [i.e. controlled by music] |