| 2H4 I.ii.172 | [Falstaff to Lord Chief Justice] pregnancy is made a tapster, and his quick wit wasted in giving reckonings |
| AYL III.iv.28 | [Celia to Rosalind] the oath of lover is no stronger than the word of a tapster |
| LLL I.ii.41 | [Armado to Mote, of reckoning] It fitteth the spirit of a tapster |
| MM I.ii.108 | [Pompey to Mistress Quickly] I'll be your tapster still |
| MM II.i.188 | [Pompey to Escalus, of his trade] A tapster, a poor widow's tapster |
| MM II.i.61 | [Elbow to Angelo, of Pompey] A tapster |
| MW I.iii.15 | [Falstaff to Bardolph] A tapster is a good trade |
| TC I.ii.114 | [Cressida to Pandarus, of counting the hairs on Troilus' chin] a tapster's arithmetic may soon bring his particulars therein to a total |
| Tim IV.iii.216 | [Apemantus to Timon] Thou gavest thine ears, like tapsters that bade welcome |
| Ven.849 | [of insects] Like shrill-tongued tapsters answering every call |