| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.ii.61 | All but new things disdain; whose judgements are | All but new things disdaine; whose iudgements are |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.114 | A poor physician's daughter my wife! Disdain | A poore Physitians daughter my wife? Disdaine |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.116 | 'Tis only title thou disdainest in her, the which | Tis onely title thou disdainst in her, the which |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.158 | Believe not thy disdain, but presently | Beleeue not thy disdaine, but presentlie |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.142 | Proud and disdainful, harping on what I am, | Proud and disdainfull, harping on what I am, |
| As You Like It | AYL III.iv.45 | Praising the proud disdainful shepherdess | Praising the proud disdainfull Shepherdesse |
| As You Like It | AYL III.iv.49 | And the red glow of scorn and proud disdain, | And the red glowe of scorne and prowd disdaine, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.i.121 | I'll knock elsewhere to see if they'll disdain me. | Ile knocke else-where, to see if they'll disdaine me. |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.258 | Tickled with good success, disdains the shadow | tickled with good successe, disdaines the shadow |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iv.26 | They do disdain us much beyond our thoughts, | They do disdaine vs much beyond our Thoughts, |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.79 | Which we disdain should tetter us, yet sought | Which we disdaine should Tetter vs, yet sought |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.143 | Where one part does disdain with cause, the other | Whereon part do's disdaine with cause, the other |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vii.147 | Solicits here a lady that disdains | Solicites heere a Lady, that disdaines |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.177 | Ambitions, covetings, change of prides, disdain, | Ambitions, Couetings, change of Prides, Disdaine, |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.20 | The most disdained of fortune. | The most disdain'd of Fortune. |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.v.76 | Disdaining me, and throwing favours on | Disdaining me, and throwing Fauours on |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.105.2 | The boy disdains me, | The Boy disdaines me, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.181 | Revenge the jeering and disdained contempt | Reuenge the geering and disdain'd contempt |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.179 | Pride, haughtiness, opinion, and disdain, | Pride, Haughtinesse, Opinion, and Disdaine: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.ii.95 | Behold yourself so by a son disdained; | Behold your selfe, so by a Sonne disdained: |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.48 | Who, holding in disdain the German women | Who holding in disdaine the German Women, |
| Henry V | H5 III.vi.108 | French upbraided or abused in disdainful language; | French vpbrayded or abused in disdainefull Language; |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iv.32 | Which I, disdaining, scorned, and craved death | Which I disdaining, scorn'd, and craued death, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iii.98 | It shall be so, disdain they ne'er so much. | It shall be so, disdaine they ne're so much: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.17 | Disdaining duty that to us belongs. | Disdaining dutie that to vs belongs. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.i.88 | Disdain to call us lord, and Picardy | Disdaine to call vs Lord, and Piccardie |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.127 | Exempt from envy, but not from disdain, | Exempt from Enuy, but not from Disdaine, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.i.98 | These were her words, uttered with mild disdain: | These were her words, vtt'red with mild disdaine: |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.115.4 | and Buckingham on him, both full of disdain | and Buckingham on him, both full of disdaine. |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.123 | Disdainful to be tried by't; 'tis not well. | Disdainfull to be tride by't; tis not well. |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.43 | Nor frosty winter but in her disdain. | Nor frosty winter, but in her disdayne, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.133 | That they disdain an ending period. | That they disdaine an ending period. |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.31 | But that in froward and disdainful pride | But that in froward and disdainfull pride |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.143 | By rule of knighthood, I disdain and spurn. | By rule of Knight-hood, I disdaine and spurne: |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.186 | That very dogs disdained; and in this habit | That very Dogges disdain'd: and in this habit |
| Macbeth | Mac I.ii.17 | Disdaining fortune, with his brandished steel, | Disdayning Fortune, with his brandisht Steele, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.261 | With a disdainful youth – anoint his eyes; | With a disdainefull youth: annoint his eyes, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.136 | In such disdainful manner me to woo. | In such disdainfull manner, me to wooe. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.110 | What, my dear Lady Disdain! Are you yet | What my deere Ladie Disdaine! are you yet |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.112 | Is it possible disdain should die while she hath | Is it possible Disdaine should die, while shee hath |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.114 | itself must convert to disdain, if you come in her | it selfe must conuert to Disdaine, if you come in her |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.iii.26 | in his grace, and it better fits my blood to be disdained | in his grace, and it better fits my bloud to be disdain'd |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.115 | That I was disdainful, and that I had my good | That I was disdainfull, and that I had my good |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.i.34 | No, truly, Ursula, she is too disdainful; | No truely Vrsula, she is too disdainfull, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.i.51 | Disdain and scorn ride sparkling in her eyes, | Disdaine and Scorne ride sparkling in her eyes, |
| Pericles | Per IV.iii.31 | She did disdain my child, and stood between | Shee did disdaine my childe, and stoode betweene |
| Pericles | Per V.i.119.1 | Like lies disdained in the reporting. | like lies disdaind in the reporting. |
| Richard II | R2 I.iv.12 | And, for my heart disdained that my tongue | and for my hart disdained yt my tongue |
| Richard II | R2 V.v.83 | So proudly as if he disdained the ground. | So proudly, as if he had disdain'd the ground. |
| Richard III | R3 III.iv.83 | And did scorn it and disdain to fly. | And I did scorne it, and disdaine to flye: |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.279 | Then he disdains to shine; for by the book | Then he disdaines to shine: for by the Booke |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.3 | That I disdain. But for these other gauds, | That I disdaine: but for these other goods, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.ii.39 | As I have loved this proud disdainful haggard. | As I haue lou'd this proud disdainful Haggard, |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.20 | Sour-eyed disdain and discord shall bestrew | Sower-ey'd disdaine, and discord shall bestrew |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.22 | His semblable, yea himself, Timon disdains. | His semblable, yea himselfe Timon disdaines, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.71 | And now like Nilus it disdaineth bounds. | And now like Nylus it disdaineth bounds: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.34 | battle and struck him down, the disdain and shame | battell and stroke him downe, the disdaind & shame |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.129 | It hath to climb. The general's disdained | It hath to climbe. The Generall's disdain'd |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.53 | Or else disdainfully, which shall shake him more | Or else disdainfully, which shall shake him more, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.vi.15 | I do disdain thy courtesy, proud Trojan; | I doe disdaine thy curtesie, proud Troian; |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.ii.112 | Trampling contemptuously on thy disdain. | Trampling contemptuously on thy disdaine. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iv.160 | Disdain to root the summer-swelling flower | Disdaine to roote the Sommer-swelling flowre, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.i.71.1 | His ear which now disdains you. | His eare, which now disdaines you. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.742 | Therefore I'll not disdain. | Therefore I will not disdaine. |