| AC IV.xiv.57 | [Antony to Eros] the gods / Detest my baseness |
| Cor III.ii.123.1 | [Coriolanus to Volumnia] by my body's action teach my mind / A most inherent baseness |
| Cym III.v.89 | [Cloten to Pisanio, of Posthumus] From whom so many weights of baseness cannot / A dram of worth be drawn |
| MW II.ii.20 | [Falstaff to Pistol] thou unconfinable baseness |
| TN V.i.144 | [Olivia to Viola as Cesario] it is the baseness of thy fear / That makes thee strangle thy propriety |