| Cor I.vi.25 | [Cominius to Martius] The shepherd knows not thunder from a tabor |
| Cor V.iv.49 | [Second Messenger to Sicinius] sackbuts, psalteries, and fifes, / Tabors and cymbals |
| LLL V.i.147 | [Dull to Holofernes] I will play on the tabor to the Worthies, and let them dance the hay |
| MA II.iii.14 | [Benedick alone, of Claudio] now had he rather hear the tabor and the pipe |
| Tem III.ii.126 | [stage direction] Ariel plays the tune on a tabor and pipe |
| Tem IV.i.175 | [Ariel to Prospero] Then I beat my tabor |
| TN III.i.2 | [Viola as Cesario to Feste] Dost thou live by thy tabor? |
| WT IV.iv.184 | [Servant to Shepherd] you would never dance again after a tabor and pipe |