| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.142 | Proud and disdainful, harping on what I am, | Proud and disdainfull, harping on what I am, |
| As You Like It | AYL III.iv.45 | Praising the proud disdainful shepherdess | Praising the proud disdainfull Shepherdesse |
| Henry V | H5 III.vi.108 | French upbraided or abused in disdainful language; | French vpbrayded or abused in disdainefull Language; |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.123 | Disdainful to be tried by't; 'tis not well. | Disdainfull to be tride by't; tis not well. |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.31 | But that in froward and disdainful pride | But that in froward and disdainfull pride |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.261 | With a disdainful youth – anoint his eyes; | With a disdainefull youth: annoint his eyes, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.136 | In such disdainful manner me to woo. | In such disdainfull manner, me to wooe. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.115 | That I was disdainful, and that I had my good | That I was disdainfull, and that I had my good |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.i.34 | No, truly, Ursula, she is too disdainful; | No truely Vrsula, she is too disdainfull, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.ii.39 | As I have loved this proud disdainful haggard. | As I haue lou'd this proud disdainful Haggard, |