| AYL II.vii.157 | [Jaques to all] the justice, ... / Full of wise saws and modern instances |
| AYL III.ii.49 | [Touchstone to Corin] Instance, briefly; come, instance [i.e. give me an example] |
| AYL III.ii.54 | [Touchstone to Corin] A better instance ... A more sounder instance ... Mend the instance |
| TC I.iii.77 | [Ulysses to all] Troy, yet upon his basis, had been down ... / But for these instances |
| TC V.ii.156 | [Troilus to Ulysses, of the division in Cressida] Instance, O instance, strong as Pluto's gates! |
| TC V.x.40 | [Pandarus alone, of choosing an appropriate song] What instance for it? |
| TN IV.iii.12 | [Sebastian alone] doth this accident and flood of fortune / So far exceed all instance, all discourse |