| AYL II.vii.95 | [Orlando to Duke Senior] You touched my vein at first |
| CE II.ii.20 | [Dromio of Syracuse to Antipholus of Syracuse] I am glad to see you in this merry vein |
| CE IV.iv.78 | [Pinch to Adriana, of Dromio and Antipholus of Ephesus] The fellow finds his vein [i.e. understands his frame of mind] |
| LLL IV.iii.72 | [Berowne to himself, of Longaville's verse] This is the liver vein, which makes flesh a deity |
| R3 IV.ii.115 | [King Richard to Buckingham] I am not in the giving vein today |
| TC II.iii.198 | [Nestor to himself, of Ulysses and Ajax] he rubs the vein of him |