| AYL III.ii.127 | [Celia as Aliena reading, of a man] the stretching of a span / Buckles in his sum of age [i.e. life is so short] |
| TC II.ii.31 | [Troilus to Hector, of Priam] Will you ... buckle in a waist most fathomless / With spans and inches so diminutive / As fears and reasons? |