| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.106 | He leaves me, scorns me: briefly die their joys | He leaues me, scornes me: briefely dye their ioyes, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.70 | For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, | For who would beare the Whips and Scornes of time, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.ii.64 | Had his great name profaned with their scorns, | Had his great Name prophaned with their Scornes, |
| Henry V | H5 III.ii.37 | words are the best men; and therefore he scorns to say | Words are the best men, and therefore hee scornes to say |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iv.39 | With scoffs and scorns and contumelious taunts; | With scoffes and scornes, and contumelious taunts, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iv.77 | Turn not thy scorns this way, Plantagenet. | Turne not thy scornes this way, Plantagenet. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iii.79 | And in her heart she scorns our poverty. | And in her heart she scornes our Pouertie: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.64 | And after many scorns, many foul taunts, | And after many scornes, many foule taunts, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.i.24 | Setting your scorns and your mislike aside, | Setting your skornes, and your mislike aside, |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.204 | That unicorns may be betrayed with trees, | That Vnicornes may be betray'd with Trees, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.ii.33 | The lion scorns to touch the yielding prey, | The Lion scornes to touch the yeelding pray, |
| King John | KJ I.i.228 | Sir Robert's son. Why scornest thou at Sir Robert? | Sir Roberts sonne? why scorn'st thou at sir Robert? |
| King John | KJ III.iv.42 | Which scorns a modern invocation. | Which scornes a moderne Inuocation. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.854 | Will hear your idle scorns, continue then, | Will heare your idle scornes; continue then, |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.i.75 | Our corn's to reap, for yet our tilth's to sow. | Our Corne's to reape, for yet our Tithes to sow. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.331 | In her behalf that scorns your services. | In her behalfe that scornes your seruices. |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.82 | And mark the fleers, the gibes, and notable scorns | And marke the Fleeres, the Gybes, and notable Scornes |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.9 | Scorns to unsay what once it hath delivered. | Scornes to vnsay, what it hath once deliuer'd. |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.175 | And with thy scorns drew'st rivers from his eyes, | And with thy scornes drew'st Riuers from his eyes, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.264 | And dallies with the wind and scorns the sun. | And dallies with the winde, and scornes the Sunne. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.v.18 | Unplagued with corns will walk a bout with you. | Vnplagu'd with Cornes, will walke about with you: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.v.21 | She, I'll swear, hath corns. Am I come near ye now? | She Ile sweare hath Cornes: am I come neare ye now? |
| The Tempest | Tem III.iii.23 | That there are unicorns; that in Arabia | That there are Vnicornes: that in Arabia |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.6 | The greater scorns the lesser. Not nature, | The greater scornes the lesser. Not Nature |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.99 | In that it scorns to bear another hue: | In that it scornes to beare another hue: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.233 | This Trojan scorns us, or the men of Troy | This Troyan scornes vs, or the men of Troy |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.30 | O deadly gall, and theme of all our scorns, | Oh deadly gall, and theame of all our scornes, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.93 | A woman sometimes scorns what best contents her. | A woman somtime scorns what best cõtents her. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.32 | Truly pertains – without upbraidings, scorns, | Truely pertaines (without obbraidings, scornes, |