| CE V.i.16 | [Angelo to Antipholus of Syracuse] With circumstance and oaths so to deny / This chain |
| R3 I.ii.77 | [Richard to Anne] give me leave / By circumstance but to acquit myself |
| TC III.iii.114 | [Ulysses to Achilles, of his book's author] Who in his circumstance expressly proves / That no man is the lord of any thing |
| TG I.i.36 | [Proteus to Valentine] by your circumstance, you call me fool? [pun: 37, sense 4] |
| TG I.i.84 | [Speed to Proteus, responding to 'and thy master a shepherd'] that I can deny by a circumstance |
| TG III.ii.36 | [Proteus to Duke, of slander against Valentine] it must with circumstance be spoken |