| 1H4 IV.iv.7.1 | [Sir Michael to Archbishop, of letters] I guess their tenor |
| AYL IV.iii.12 | [Silvius to Rosalind as Ganymede, of Phebe's letter to Ganymede] It bears an angry tenor |
| Cym II.iv.36.1 | [Posthumus to Iachimo, of his letters] Their tenour good, I trust |
| Cym III.viii.1 | [First Senator to all] This is the tenor of the emperor's writ |
| H5 V.ii.72 | [King Henry to Burgundy, of the English demands] Whose tenors and particular effects / You have ... in your hands |
| H8 I.ii.206 | [Surveyor to King Henry, of Buckingham's oath] whose tenor / Was ... he would outgo / His father |
| JC IV.iii.169 | [Messala to Brutus, of the movement of the enemy army] Myself have letters of the selfsame tenor |
| Luc.1310 | [of Lucrece's letter] Here folds she up the tenor of her woe [Q tenure] |
| MA IV.i.165 | [Friar to Leonato] my observations, / Which with experimental seal doth warrant / The tenor of my book |
| TC II.i.90 | [Ajax to Achilles, of Thersites] I bade the vile owl go learn me the tenor of the proclamation |