| Cym III.iv.42 | [Innogen to Pisanio, of her bed] To lie in watch there |
| Ham II.ii.148 | [Polonius to Claudius and Gertrude, of Hamlet] Fell ... into a fast, / Thence to a watch |
| RJ II.iii.31 | [Friar to Romeo] Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye |
| Sonn.148.10 | [] O how can love's eye be true, / That is so vexed with watching and with tears? |
| TC I.ii.264 | [Cressida to Pandarus, of her defences] at all these wards I lie, at a thousand watches [also: night vigilance; devotional exercise] |