| KJ V.ii.13 | [Salisbury to Lewis the Dauphin] I am not glad that such a sore of time / Should seek a plaster by contemned revolt |
| KL II.ii.141 | [Gloucester to Cornwall, of disguised Kent's punishment] Is such as basest and contemned'st wretches ... / Are punished with |
| KL IV.i.1 | [Edgar alone, of being Poor Tom] Yet better thus, and known to be contemned, / Than still contemned and flattered |