| PP.11.13 | [Pilgrim, of his love] that I had my lady at this bay, / To kiss and clip me till I run away! |
| R2 II.iii.127 | [Bolingbroke to York, of Aumerle] He should have found his uncle Gaunt a father / To rouse his wrongs and chase them to the bay |
| R3 IV.iv.233 | [Queen Elizabeth to King Richard] I, in such a desperate bay of death, / Like a poor bark [also: sea inlet] |
| Tit IV.ii.42 | [Demetrius to Aaron, of their treatment of Lavinia] I would we had a thousand Roman dames / At such a bay, by turn to serve our lust |
| TS V.ii.56 | [Tranio to Petruchio, of Katherina] 'Tis thought your deer does hold you at a bay |
| Ven.877 | [of Venus] she hears the hounds are at a bay |