| 1H4 I.iii.107 | [Hotspur to King Henry] Never did base and rotten policy / Colour her working with such deadly wounds |
| 1H4 I.iii.163 | [Hotspur to and of Northumberland and Worcester] Being the agents, or base second means |
| 1H4 II.iv.245 | [Prince Hal to Falstaff] when thou hast tired thyself in base comparisons hear me speak but this |
| 1H4 III.ii.125 | [King Henry to Prince Hal] Thou that art like enough, through vassal fear, / Base inclination, ... / To fight against me |
| 1H4 III.ii.25 | [Prince Hal to King Henry] tales devised ... / By smiling pickthanks and base newsmongers [or: sense 2] |
| 1H6 II.iv.35 | [Warwick to all] without all colour / Of base insinuating flattery |
| 1H6 III.i.180 | [Somerset to himself, as if to York] Perish, base prince, ignoble Duke of York! |
| 1H6 III.i.196 | [Exeter alone] this base and envious discord |
| 1H6 IV.i.14 | [Talbot to Falstaff] I vowed, base knight, when I did meet thee next / To tear the Garter from thy craven's leg |
| 1H6 V.ii.18 | [Pucelle to all] Of all base passions, fear is most accursed |
| 1H6 V.v.49 | [Suffolk to all] Disgrace not so your king / That he should be so abject, base, and poor / To choose for wealth and not for perfect love |
| 2H4 II.iv.120 | [Doll to Pistol] you poor, base, rascally, cheating, lack-linen mate! |
| 2H4 III.ii.229 | [Feeble to Bardolph] I'll ne'er bear a base mind |
| 2H4 IV.i.33 | [Westmorland to Archbishop] If that rebellion / Came like itself, in base and abject routs |
| 2H4 IV.i.40 | [Westmorland to Archbishop] the ugly form / Of base and bloody insurrection |
| 2H6 II.i.13 | [Gloucester to King] 'tis but a base ignoble mind / That mounts no higher than a bird can soar |
| 2H6 IV.i.39 | [Whitmore to Suffolk] Never yet did base dishonour blur our name |
| 2H6 IV.viii.62 | [Cade to himself] only my followers' base and ignominious treasons, makes me betake me to my heels |
| 3H6 I.i.178 | [Westmorland to King] Base, fearful, and despairing Henry! |
| AC V.ii.158.1 | [Cleopatra to and of Seleucus] O rarely base! |
| AW II.iii.170 | [Bertram to King, of Helena] she, which late / Was in my nobler thoughts most base, is now / The praised of the King |
| AW III.vi.27 | [First Lord to Bertram] in the highest compulsion of base fear |
| AYL II.iii.32 | [Orlando to Adam] wouldst thou have me go and beg my food, / Or with a base and boisterous sword enforce / A thievish living on the common road? |
| AYL III.ii.64 | [Touchstone to Corin] civet is of a baser birth than tar |
| Cor I.v.7 | [Martius to Lartius] these base slaves, / Ere yet the fight be done, pack up |
| Cor III.ii.100 | [Coriolanus to all] Must I / With base tongue give to my noble heart / A lie that it must bear? |
| Cym I.vii.109 | [Iachimo to Innogen] by-peeping in an eye / Base and illustrous |
| Cym I.vii.144 | [Innogen to Iachimo] If thou wert honourable, / Thou wouldst have told this tale for virtue, not / For such an end thou seek'st, as base, as strange |
| Cym II.iii.125 | [Innogen to Cloten, of Posthumus] Wert thou the son of Jupiter, and no more / But what thou art besides, thou wert too base / To be his groom |
| E3 II.ii.79 | [King Edward to Prince Edward] basest theft is that / Which cannot cloak itself on poverty |
| E3 III.iii.183 | [King Edward to Prince Edward] with this armour I impall thy breast, ... / That never base affections enter there |
| E3 IV.iv.79 | [Prince Edward to Herald] That such base breath should vanish from my lips, / To urge the plea of mercy to a man, / The Lord forbid! |
| H5 II.i.92 | [Pistol to Nym] Base is the slave that pays! |
| H5 IV.v.14 | [Bourbon to all] he that will not follow Bourbon now, / Let him go hence ... / Like a base pander |
| H8 II.i.104 | [Buckingham to all] I am richer than my base accusers / That never knew what truth meant |
| Ham III.ii.193 | [Second Player as Queen to her King] The instances that second marriage move / Are base respects of thrift, but none of love |
| JC IV.iii.24 | [Brutus to Cassius] shall we now / Contaminate our fingers with base bribes |
| KJ II.i.586 | [Bastard alone, of King John's change of mind] From a resolved and honourable war, / To a most base and vile-concluded peace |
| KJ V.i.68 | [Bastard to King John] Shall we ... / Send fair-play orders and make compromise, / Insinuation, parley, and base truce / To arms invasive? |
| LLL I.i.87 | [Berowne to King] Small have continual plodders ever won, / Save base authority from others' books [or: sense 3] |
| LLL I.ii.57 | [Armado to Mote] as it is base for a soldier to love, so am I in love with a base wench [first instance] |
| LLL II.i.16 | [Princess to Boyet] Beauty is bought by judgement of the eye, / Not uttered by base sale of chapmen's tongues |
| Luc.1000 | [Lucrece as if to time, of Tarquin] who so base would such an office have / As sland'rous deathsman to so base a slave? |
| Luc.1002 | [of Tarquin] The baser is he, coming from a king, / To shame his hope with deeds degenerate |
| Luc.202 | [] my digression is so vile, so base, / That it will live engraven in my face |
| Luc.660 | [Lucrece to Tarquin, of his evils] So shall these slaves be king, and thou their slave; / Thou nobly base, they basely dignified |
| Luc.928 | [Lucrece as if to time] Base watch of woes |
| Luc.93 | [of Tarquin] Hiding base sin in plaits of majesty |
| MM III.i.92 | [Isabella to Claudio] Thou art too noble to conserve a life / In base appliances |
| MV II.vii.50 | [Morocco to himself] Is't like that lead contains her? 'Twere damnation / To think so base a thought |
| MW I.iii.19 | [Pistol to Bardolph] O base Hungarian wight! [or: sense 2] |
| MW I.iii.83 | [Pistol to Nym, of Falstaff] Base Phrygian Turk! |
| Oth IV.ii.139 | [Emilia to Iago and Desdemona] The Moor's abused by some most villainous knave, / Some base notorious knave |
| Per II.v.61 | [Pericles to Simonides] My actions are as noble as my thoughts, / That never relished of a base descent [or: sense 2] |
| Per IV.vi.189 | [Marina to Boult] prostitute me to the basest groom / That doth frequent your house [or: sense 2] |
| R2 I.i.192 | [Bolingbroke to King Richard, of throwing up his gage] Ere my tongue / Shall wound my honour with such feeble wrong, / Or sound so base a parle |
| R2 IV.i.20 | [Aumerle to all, of Bagot] What answer shall I make to this base man? |
| R2 V.i.33 | [Queen Isabel to Richard] wilt thou ... fawn on rage with base humility, / Which art a lion and a king of beasts? |
| R3 III.vii.188 | [Buckingham to all, of King Edward] he ... / Seduced the pitch and height of his degree / To base declension and loathed bigamy |
| Sonn.100.4 | [to the Muse] Spend'st thou thy fury on some worthless song, / Dark'ning thy power to lend base subjects light? |
| Sonn.141.6 | [] Nor are mine ears with thy tongue's tune delighted, / Nor tender feeling to base touches prone |
| Sonn.33.5 | [of the sun] Anon permit the basest clouds to ride / With ugly rack on his celestial face |
| Sonn.34.3 | [to the sun] Why didst thou ... let base clouds o'ertake me in my way, / Hiding thy brav'ry in their rotten smoke? |
| TC II.ii.154 | [Paris to all, of Helen] What treason were it ... to deliver her possession up / On terms of base compulsion! |
| TG II.vii.73 | [Julia to Lucetta, of deceitful men's oaths and tears] Base men, that use them to so base effect! |
| TG III.i.157 | [Duke to Valentine] Go, base intruder, overweening slave |
| TG IV.i.28 | [Valentine to Outlaws, of killing a man] I slew him manfully in fight, / Without false vantage or base treachery |
| TG IV.i.73 | [Third Outlaw to Valentine, of attacking women or the poor] we detest such vile base practices |
| TG V.iv.137 | [Duke to Thurio, of Silvia] The more degenerate and base art thou / To make such means for her as thou hast done |
| Tim III.iv.59 | [Flavius to Servants, of his answer] 'tis not so base as you, / For you serve knaves |
| Tim IV.iii.467 | [Flavius to himself] What viler thing upon the earth than friends, / Who can bring noblest minds to basest ends! |
| Tit V.iii.184 | [Aaron to all] I am no baby, I, that with base prayers / I should repent the evils I have done |
| TNK II.i.267 | [Palamon to Arcite] What 'twere to filch affection from another! / Thou art baser in it than a cutpurse |
| TNK III.iii.44 | [Palamon to Arcite] Base cousin |
| TNK III.vi.117.1 | [Arcite to Palamon] we had a noble difference, / But base disposers of it |
| TS III.i.45 | [Hortensio as Licio to Lucentio as Cambio] The bass is right, 'tis the base knave that jars |
| WT IV.iv.415 | [Polixenes to Florizel] thou art too base / To be acknowledged |