| 2H4 III.ii.46 | [Shallow to Silence, of Double] 'A would have ... carried you a forehand shaft a fourteen and fourteen and a half |
| MV I.i.140 | [Bassanio to Antonio] when I had lost one shaft, / I shot his fellow of the self-same flight |
| MW III.iv.24 | [Slender to Shallow, of proposing to Anne] I'll make a shaft or a bolt on't [i.e. do it by one means or another] |
| RJ I.iv.19 | [Romeo to Mercutio, of Cupid] I am too sore empierced with his shaft |
| TN I.i.36 | [Orsino to Valentine, of Olivia] How will she love, when the rich golden shaft / Hath killed the flock of all affections else |