| Cym V.iv.192 | [First Gaoler to Posthumus] I am sure hanging's the way of winking |
| H5 V.ii.300 | [King Henry to Burgundy, of Katherine] teach your cousin to consent winking |
| Ham II.ii.137 | [Polonius to Claudius, of his reporting what he had seen] If I had ... given my heart a winking, mute and dumb [F; Q2 working] |
| KJ IV.ii.211 | [King John to Hubert, of the way servants interpret the King's intentions] on the winking of authority / To understand a law [or: connivance, hint] |