| 1H4 I.ii.196 | [Prince Hal alone] the sun, / Who doth permit the base contagious clouds / To smother up his beauty from the world |
| 1H6 V.iii.113 | [Margaret to Suffolk] To be a queen in bondage is more vile / Than is a slave in base servility |
| 2H4 V.v.34 | [Pistol to Falstaff] Thy Doll, and Helen of thy noble thoughts, / Is in base durance and contagious prison |
| 2H6 I.ii.62 | [Duchess alone] Gloucester bears this base and humble mind |
| 2H6 IV.viii.20 | [Cade to his followers, of Clifford] you, base peasants, do ye believe him? |
| AC V.ii.289 | [Cleopatra to Charmian and Iras] I am fire and air; my other elements / I give to baser life |
| AC V.ii.299.2 | [Cleopatra to Charmian, of Iras' death] This proves me base |
| AYL II.vii.79 | [Jaques to Duke Senior] Or what is he of basest function, / That says his bravery is not on my cost |
| Cor V.vi.53 | [Second Conspirator to all, of the Volsces and Coriolanus] their base throats tear / With giving him glory [or: sense 2] |
| Cym IV.ii.80.2 | [Cloten to Guiderius] Thou villain base |
| E3 II.i.165 | [King Edward to Lodowick, of the Countess] Bid her be free and general as the sun, / Who smiles upon the basest weed that grows |
| H5 I.i.62 | [Ely to Canterbury] wholesome berries thrive and ripen best / Neighboured by fruit of baser quality |
| H5 III.vii.16 | [Dauphin to all, of his horse] the basest horn of his hoof is more musical than the pipe of Hermes. |
| Ham I.v.104 | [Hamlet alone, of the Ghost] thy commandment all alone shall live / Within the book and volume of my brain, / Unmixed with baser matter |
| Ham V.i.199 | [Hamlet to Horatio] To what base uses we may return |
| JC I.iii.110 | [Cassius to Casca] What trash is Rome ... when it serves / For the base matter to illuminate / So vile a thing as Caesar! |
| JC II.i.26 | [Brutus alone, of the ambitious climber looking back on his ladder] He ... / Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees / By which he did ascend |
| KL II.iii.7 | [Edgar alone] I ... am bethought / To take the basest and most poorest shape / That ever penury, in contempt of man, / Brought near to beast |
| KL II.iv.210 | [Lear to Regan, of the French King] I could as well be brought / To knee his throne and, squire-like, pension beg / To keep base life afoot |
| KL II.iv.259 | [Lear to Regan] Our basest beggars / Are in the poorest thing superfluous |
| LLL I.ii.161 | [Armado alone] I do affect the very ground, which is base, where her shoe, which is baser, guided by her foot, which is basest, doth tread [second and third instances] |
| MA II.i.190 | [Benedick to Don Pedro] it is the base, though bitter, disposition of Beatrice that puts the world into her person, and so gives me out [or: sense 2] |
| MND I.i.232 | [Helena alone] Things base and vile, holding no quantity, / Love can transpose to form and dignity |
| Oth I.iii.270 | [Othello to the Duke] Let ... all indign and base adversities / Make head against my estimation! |
| Oth V.ii.343 | [Othello to all, of himself] one whose hand / Like the base Indian threw a pearl away / Richer than all his tribe [or: sense 2] |
| R2 II.i.23 | [York to John of Gaunt, of Italy] Whose manners still our tardy-apish nation / Limps after in base imitation |
| R2 III.iii.180 | [King Richard to all] the base-court ... where kings grow base / To come at traitors' calls, and do them grace |
| R2 IV.i.250 | [Richard to all] I have .../ Made glory base, and sovereignty a slave |
| Sonn.74.12 | [] The coward conquest of a wretch's knife, / Too base of thee to be remembered |
| Sonn.94.11 | [of a summer flower] if that flower with base infection meet, / The basest weed outbraves his dignity |
| Tim V.i.46 | [Timon to himself] What a god's gold, / That he is worshipped in a baser temple / >Than where swine feed! |
| Tit IV.ii.71 | [Aaron to Nurse] is black so base a hue? |
| Tit V.i.43 | [Lucius to all,of Tamora's baby] And here's the base fruit of her burning lust |
| TNK II.iv.24.1 | [Pirithous to Theseus and Hippolyta, of Arcite] Mark how his virtue, like a hidden sun, / Breaks through his baser garments |
| Ven.395 | [Venus to Adonis, of his horse] He held such petty bondage in disdain, / Throwing the base thong from his bending crest |
| WT IV.iv.94 | [disguised Polixenes to Perdita] we marry / A gentler scion to the wildest stock, / And make conceive a bark of baser kind / By bud of nobler race |