| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xv.4 | But comforts we despise. Our size of sorrow, | But comforts we dispise; our size of sorrow |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.93 | Or else a rude despiser of good manners, | Or else a rude despiser of good manners, |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.22 | The tongues o'th' common mouth. I do despise them, | The Tongues o'th' Common Mouth. I do despise them: |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.v.146 | home again. She hath despised me rejoicingly, and | home againe. She hath despis'd mee reioycingly, and |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.72 | The pangs of despised love, the law's delay, | The pangs of dispriz'd Loue, the Lawes delay, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.v.54 | But being awaked I do despise my dream. | But being awake, I do despise my dreame. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.ii.47 | You may not, my lord, despise her gentle suit. | You may not (my Lord) despise her gentle suit. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.v.36 | Your nephew, late despised Richard, comes. | Your Nephew, late despised Richard, comes. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.v.42 | Why didst thou say of late thou wert despised? | Why didst thou say of late thou wert despis'd? |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.188 | Or live in peace abandoned and despised! | Or liue in peace abandon'd and despis'd. |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.291 | Of our despised nobility, our issues – | Of our despis'd Nobilitie, our Issues, |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.297 | How much, methinks, I could despise this man, | How much me thinkes, I could despise this man, |
| King Lear | KL I.i.251 | Most choice, forsaken; and most loved, despised, | Most choise forsaken, and most lou'd despis'd, |
| King Lear | KL III.ii.20 | A poor, infirm, weak, and despised old man. | A poore, infirme, weake, and dispis'd old man: |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.130 | Despite thy victor sword and fire-new fortune, | Despise thy victor-Sword, and fire new Fortune, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.441 | Despise me when I break this oath of mine. | Despise me when I breake this oath of mine. |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.201 | Let not your ears despise my tongue for ever, | Let not your eares dispise my tongue for euer, |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.267 | His old betrothed, but despised: | His old betroathed (but despised:) |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.ii.60 | he would despise me, I would forgive him, for if he love | hee would despise me, I would forgiue him, for if he loue |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.63 | Shall I tell you a lie? I do despise a liar as I do | Shall I tell you a lye? I doe despise a lyer, as I doe |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.64 | despise one that is false, or as I despise one that is not | despise one that is false, or as I despise one that is not |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.79 | Despised the Athenian maid; | Despised the Athenian maide: |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.235 | This you should pity rather than despise. | This you should pittie, rather then despise. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.403 | Despised in nativity, | Despised in Natiuitie, |
| Othello | Oth I.i.8 | Despise me, if I do not. Three great ones of the city, | Despise me / If I do not. Three Great-ones of the Cittie, |
| Othello | Oth I.i.162 | And what's to come of my despised time | And what's to come of my despised time, |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.270 | I will rather sue to be despised than to deceive so | I will rather sue to be despis'd, then to deceiue so |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.289 | to make me frankly despise myself. | to make me frankly despise my selfe. |
| Pericles | Per II.iii.26 | Envied the great nor shall the low despise. | Enuies the great, nor shall the low despise. |
| Pericles | Per IV.ii.113 | despise profit where you have most gain. To weep that | despise profite, where you haue most gaine, to weepe that |
| Richard II | R2 II.iii.94 | And ostentation of despised arms? | And ostentation of despised Armes? |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.161 | We'll make foul weather with despised tears. | Wee'le make foule Weather with despised Teares: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.110 | Of a despised life, closed in my breast, | Of a despised life clos'd in my brest: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.ii.77 | Despised substance of divinest show! | Dispised substance of Diuinest show: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.59 | Despised, distressed, hated, martyred, killed! | Despis'd, distressed, hated, martir'd, kil'd, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.vi.73 | reserve still to give, lest your deities be despised. Lend to | reserue still to giue, least your Deities be despised. Lend to |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.306 | despised for the contrary. There's a medlar for thee. | despis'd for the contrary. There's a medler for thee, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.461 | Is yond despised and ruinous man my lord? | Is yon'd despis'd and ruinous man my Lord? |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.112 | Rome will despise her for this foul escape. | Rome will despise her for this foule escape. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.100 | Our father's tears despised and basely cozened | Our Fathers teares despis'd, and basely cousen'd, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.x.36 | O world, world, world! Thus is the poor agent despised! | oh world, world, world! thus is the poore agent dispisde: |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.ii.3 | Since his exile she hath despised me most, | Since his exile she hath despis'd me most, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.ii.99 | That I despise thee for thy wrongful suit; | That I despise thee, for thy wrongfull suite; |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.iv.91 | That with his very heart despiseth me? | That with his very heart despiseth me? |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.iv.92 | Because he loves her, he despiseth me; | Because he loues her, he despiseth me, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.137 | We are certainly both traitors, both despisers | We are certainly both Traitors, both despisers |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.249 | Despise my cruelty, and cry woe worth me, | Despise my crueltie, and cry woe worth me, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.258 | O all ye gods, despise me then. Thy banishment | O all ye gods dispise me then: Thy Banishment |