| Ham V.ii.34 | [Hamlet to Horatio] I once did hold it ... / A baseness to write fair |
| KL I.ii.10 | [Edmund alone] Why brand they us / With 'base'? with 'baseness'? |
| MM III.i.15 | [disguised Duke to Claudio] all th'accommodations that thou bear'st / Are nursed by baseness |
| Oth III.iv.27 | [Desdemona to Emilia] but my noble Moor / Is ... made of no such baseness / As jealous creatures are |