| KJ IV.iii.17 | [Salisbury to Pembroke, of Melun] Whose private with me of the Dauphin's love / Is much more general than these lines import |
| Mac III.iv.22 | [Macbeth to First Murderer, of Fleance's escape] I had else been ... / As broad and general as the casing air |
| Tim II.ii.205 | [Flavius to Timon, of the Senators] I have been bold, / For that I knew it the most general way, / To them to use your signet and your name [or: usual, standard] |
| Tim IV.iii.257 | [Timon to Apemantus] thou wouldst have plunged thyself / In general riot |
| Tim IV.iii.444 | [Timon to Bandits] The earth's a thief, / That feeds and breeds by a composture stolen / From general excrement |