| Ham II.ii.436 | [Hamlet to First Player, of a play] 'Twas caviary to the general [i.e. unpalatable to those lacking a taste for it] |
| JC II.i.12 | [Brutus alone, of Caesar] I know no personal cause to spurn at him, / But for the general [i.e. the common good] |
| MM II.iv.27 | [Angelo alone] The general, subject to a well-wished king [or, with no comma after 'general': common] |
| TC I.iii.342 | [Nestor to Ulysses, of Hector's challenge] the success, / Although particular, shall give a scantling / Of good or bad unto the general [or: the army as a whole] |