| 1H4 IV.iii.39 | [Blunt to Hotspur] out of limit and true rule / You stand against anointed majesty |
| Mac V.ii.16.1 | [Cathness to Menteth, of Macbeth] He cannot buckle his distempered cause / Within the belt of rule |
| MV IV.i.175 | [Portia as Balthasar to Shylock] Of a strange nature is the suit you follow, / Yet in such rule that the Venetian law / Cannot impugn you |
| TC I.iii.78 | [Ulysses to all] The specialty of rule hath been neglected |