| AYL IV.iii.116 | [Oliver to Rosalind as Ganymede and Celia as Aliena] A lioness ... / Lay couching, head on ground |
| Ham II.ii.452 | [Hamlet to First Player, quoting lines about Pyrrhus] When he lay couched in th'ominous horse |
| Ham V.i.218 | [Hamlet to Horatio] Couch we awhile |
| MW V.ii.1 | [Page to Shallow and Slender] We'll couch i'th' Castle ditch till we see the light of our fairies |
| MW V.iii.13 | [Mistress Page to Mistress Ford, of Anne, Evans, and the fairies] They are all couched in a pit hard by Herne's Oak |
| MW V.v.48 | [Falstaff to himself, of the Fairies] I'll wink and couch; no man their works must eye |
| R2 I.iii.98 | [King Richard to Mowbray] Securely I espy / Virture with valour couched in thine eye |
| TC I.i.41 | [Troilus to Pandarus] sorrow that is couched in seeming gladness / Is like that mirth fate turns to sudden sadness |
| Tem V.i.90 | [Ariel singing] In a cowslip's bell I lie / There I couch when owls do cry (F; F3 crouch) |
| Tit V.ii.38 | [disguised Tamora to Titus] There's not a hollow cave ... / Where bloody murder or detested rape / Can couch for fear |