| 2H4 I.ii.182 | [Lord Chief Justice to Falstaff] Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the characters of age? |
| E3 III.iii.127 | [King Edward to Charles, of Audley] within his face / Time hath engraved deep characters of age |
| MM I.i.27 | [Duke to Angelo] There is a kind of character in thy life / That to th'observer doth thy history / Fully unfold [or: cipher] |
| MM I.ii.154 | [Claudio to Lucio] our most mutual entertainment / With character too gross is writ on Juliet |
| TC V.ii.167 | [Troilus to Ulysses, of expressing his passion] that shall be divulged well / In characters as red as Mars his heart |
| TNK IV.ii.110 | [Pirithous to Theseus, of one of Palamon's knights] His nose stands high, a character of honour |