| 1H4 I.i.98 | [Westmorland to King Henry, of Worcester's influence on Hotspur] Which makes him ... bristle up / The crest of youth against your dignity |
| Cor IV.v.218 | [Third Servingman to First Servingman, of Coriolanus' friends and Coriolanus] when they shall see ... his crest up again and the man in blood |
| JC IV.ii.26 | [Brutus to Lucilius, of insincere men compared to horses] when they should endure the bloody spur, / They fall their crests |
| KJ IV.iii.149 | [Bastard to Hubert] Now for the bare-picked bone of majesty / Doth dogged war bristle his angry crest [also: sense 3] |
| Ven.272 | [of Adonis' horse] his braided hanging mane / Upon his compassed crest now stand on end |