| 2H4 I.ii.185 | [Lord Chief Justice to Falstaff] Is not ... your wit single |
| 3H6 V.i.43 | [Richard to all, of Warwick] whiles he thought to steal the single ten, / The king was slily fingered from the deck! |
| Cor II.i.35 | [Menenius to Brutus] your helps are many, or else your actions would grow wondrous single [also: solitary] |
| H8 I.i.15 | [Norfolk to Buckingham, of meeting between the Kings of France and England] men might say, / Till this time pomp was single, but now married / To one above itself [also: unmarried] |
| Mac I.vi.16 | [Lady Macbeth to King] All our service ... / Were poor and single business to contend / Against those honours deep and broad wherewith / Your majesty loads our house |