| 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 [first instance] [or: sense 3, 4] |
| LLL II.i.93 | [Princess to King] The roof of this court is too high to be yours, and welcome to the wide fields too base to be mine |
| LLL IV.iii.223 | [Berowne to King, of an Indian] Kisses the base ground with obedient breast |
| Luc.664 | [Lucrece to Tarquin] The cedar stoops not to the base shrub's foot |
| R2 II.iv.20 | [Salisbury alone, of King Richard] I see thy glory like a shooting star / Fall to the base earth |
| R2 III.iii.191 | [King Richard to Bolingbroke] you debase your princely knee / To make the base earth proud with kissing it |
| TG II.iv.157 | [Valentine to Proteus, of what Proteus' mistress might do] bear my lady's train, lest the base earth / Should from her vesture chance to steal a kiss |
| TNK II.i.197.1 | [Emilia to Woman, of what happens when the north wind blows a rose] She locks her beauties in her bud again, / And leaves him to base briars |