| 2H4 III.ii.306 | [Falstaff alone, of Shallow] 'A ... sung those tunes to the overscutched housewives that he heard the carmen whistle |
| AC IV.xv.44 | [Cleopatra to Antony] let me rail so high / That the false housewife Fortune break her wheel |
| H5 V.i.76 | [Pistol alone] Doth fortune play the housewife with me now? |
| Oth II.i.111 | [Iago to Emilia and Desdemona] you are ... housewives in your beds |
| Oth IV.i.94 | [Iago to himself] Now will I question Cassio of Bianca, / A housewife |
| TN I.iii.98 | [Sir Toby to Sir Andrew] I hope to see a huswife take thee between her legs [also: woman who keeps house] |