| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.v.63 | Horrible villain, or I'll spurn thine eyes | horrible Villaine, or Ile spurne thine eyes |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.i.83 | That like a football you do spurn me thus? | That like a foot-ball you doe spurne me thus: |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.i.84 | You spurn me hence, and he will spurn me hither. | You spurne me hence, and he will spurne me hither, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.143 | Wouldst thou not spit at me, and spurn at me, | Wouldst thou not spit at me, and spurne at me, |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iii.165 | And spurn me back. But if it be not so, | And spurne me backe: But, if it be not so |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.i.18 | pieces before thy face: and all this done, spurn | peeces before thy face: and all this done, spurne |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.294 | With language that would make me spurn the sea, | With Language that would make me spurne the Sea, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.ii.89 | Nay, more, to spurn at your most royal image, | Nay more, to spurne at your most Royall Image, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iv.52 | And spurn in pieces posts of adamant; | And spurne in pieces Posts of Adamant. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.58 | When he might spurn him with his foot away? | When he might spurne him with his Foot away? |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.11 | I know no personal cause to spurn at him, | I know no personall cause, to spurne at him, |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.46 | I spurn thee like a cur out of my way. | I spurne thee like a Curre out of my way: |
| King Edward III | E3 I.i.50 | That spurn against my sovereignty in France. | That spurne against my souereignety in France. |
| King John | KJ III.i.142 | So wilfully dost spurn; and force perforce | So wilfully dost spurne; and force perforce |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.143 | By rule of knighthood, I disdain and spurn. | By rule of Knight-hood, I disdaine and spurne: |
| Macbeth | Mac III.v.30 | He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear | He shall spurne Fate, scorne Death, and beare |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.iii.115 | And foot me as you spurn a stranger cur | And foote me as you spurne a stranger curre |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.iii.128 | To spit on thee again, to spurn thee too. | To spet on thee againe, to spurne thee too. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.205 | Use me but as your spaniel: spurn me, strike me, | Vse me but as your spaniell; spurne me, strike me, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.225 | Who even but now did spurn me with his foot – | (Who euen but now did spurne me with his foote) |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.313 | To strike me, spurn me – nay, to kill me too. | To strike me, spurne me, nay to kill me too; |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.42 | And spurn upon thee, beggar, for thy boldness. | And spurne vpon thee Begger for thy boldnesse. |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.201 | Spurn at His edict, and fulfil a man's? | Spurne at his Edict, and fulfill a Mans? |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.274 | Away, unpeaceable dog, or I'll spurn thee | Away vnpeaceable Dogge, / Or Ile spurne thee |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.138 | Who dies that bears not one spurn to their graves | Who dyes, that beares not one spurne to their graues |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.101 | But that which gives my soul the greatest spurn | But that which giues my soule the greatest spurne, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.182 | To make Mars spurn his drum? O, if thou couch | To make Mars spurne his Drom. O if thou couch |