| Per IV.iv.2 | [Gower alone] we ... / Sail seas in cockles [or: coracles] |
| TNK IV.i.130 | [Gaoler's Daughter to First Friend] I keep close for all this, / Close as a cockle [i.e. keep myself to myself] |
| TS IV.iii.66 | [Petruchio to Haberdasher, of the hat] 'tis a cockle or a walnut-shell |