| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.170 | Was in my nobler thoughts most base, is now | Was in my Nobler thoughts, most base: is now |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.vi.27 | life, and in the highest compulsion of base fear, offer to | life, and in the highest compulsion of base feare, offer to |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.158.1 | O rarely base! | O rarely base! |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.299.2 | This proves me base; | This proues me base: |
| As You Like It | AYL II.iii.32 | Or with a base and boisterous sword enforce | Or with a base and boistrous Sword enforce |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.v.7 | Bury with those that wore them, these base slaves, | Bury with those that wore them. These base slaues, |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.108 | It makes the consuls base! And my soul aches | It makes the Consuls base; and my Soule akes |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.ii.100 | With my base tongue give to my noble heart | with my base Tongue giue to my Noble Heart |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.vi.53 | Whose children he hath slain, their base throats tear | Whose children he hath slaine, their base throats teare |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vii.109 | Base and illustrous as the smoky light | Base and illustrious as the smoakie light |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vii.144 | For such an end thou seek'st, as base, as strange. | For such an end thou seek'st, as base, as strange: |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iii.112 | The contract you pretend with that base wretch, | The Contract you pretend with that base Wretch, |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iii.121 | The precious note of it; with a base slave, | The precious note of it; with a base Slaue, |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iii.125 | But what thou art besides, thou wert too base | But what thou art besides: thou wer't too base, |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.26 | Cowards father cowards, and base things sire base; | "Cowards father Cowards, & Base things Syre Bace; |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.80.2 | Thou villain base, | Thou Villaine base, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iii.20 | The country base than to commit such slaughter, | The Country base, then to commit such slaughter, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iv.71 | That beetles o'er his base into the sea, | That beetles o're his base into the Sea, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.474 | Stoops to his base, and with a hideous crash | Stoopes to his Bace, and with a hideous crash |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.193 | Are base respects of thrift, but none of love. | Are base respects of Thrift, but none of Loue. |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.i.26 | Among a mineral of metals base, | Among a Minerall of Mettels base |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.199 | To what base uses we may return, Horatio! Why | To what base vses we may returne Horatio. Why |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.196 | Who doth permit the base contagious clouds | Who doth permit the base contagious cloudes |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.107 | Never did base and rotten policy | Neuer did base and rotten Policy |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.163 | Being the agents, or base second means, | Being the Agents, or base second meanes, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.6 | bass string of humility. Sirrah, I am sworn brother to a | base string of humility. Sirra, I am sworn brother to a |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.245 | and when thou hast tired thyself in base comparisons | and when thou hasttyr'd thy selfe in base comparisons, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.ii.25 | By smiling pickthanks and base newsmongers, | By smiling Pick-thankes, and base Newes-mongers; |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.ii.125 | Base inclination, and the start of spleen, | Base Inclination, and the start of Spleene, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.120 | you poor, base, rascally, cheating, lack-linen mate! | you poore, base, rascally, cheating, lacke-Linnen-Mate: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.229 | we owe God a death. I'll ne'er bear a base mind. An't, | wee owe a death. I will neuer beare a base minde: if it |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.234 | Faith, I'll bear no base mind. | Nay, I will beare no base minde. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.33 | Came like itself, in base and abject routs, | Came like it selfe, in base and abiect Routs, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.40 | Of base and bloody insurrection | Of base, and bloodie Insurrection, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.iii.92 | Puff i'thy teeth, most recreant coward base! | puffe in thy teeth, most recreant Coward base. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.iii.99 | A foutre for the world and worldlings base! | A footra for the World, and Worldlings base, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.iii.101 | O base Assyrian knight, what is thy news? | O base Assyrian Knight, what is thy newes? |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.v.34 | Is in base durance and contagious prison, | is in base Durance, and contagious prison: |
| Henry V | H5 II.i.27 | Base tike, call'st thou me host? | Base Tyke, cal'st thou mee Hoste, |
| Henry V | H5 II.i.92 | Base is the slave that pays! | Base is the Slaue that payes. |
| Henry V | H5 III.i.13 | O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, | O're-hang and iutty his confounded Base, |
| Henry V | H5 III.i.29 | For there is none of you so mean and base | For there is none of you so meane and base, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.38 | Or art thou base, common, and popular? | or art thou base, common, and popular? |
| Henry V | H5 IV.v.14 | Like a base pander, hold the chamber-door | Like a base Pander hold the Chamber doore, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.v.15 | Whilst by a slave, no gentler than my dog, | Whilst a base slaue, no gentler then my dogge, |
| Henry V | H5 V.i.18 | Ha, art thou bedlam? Dost thou thirst, base Troyan, | Ha, art thou bedlam? doest thou thirst, base Troian, |
| Henry V | H5 V.i.30 | Base Troyan, thou shalt die! | Base Troian, thou shalt dye. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.137 | A base Walloon, to win the Dauphin's grace, | A base Wallon, to win the Dolphins grace, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.ii.80 | Willed me to leave my base vocation | Will'd me to leaue my base Vocation, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iv.35 | Of base insinuating flattery, | Of base insinuating flatterie, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.180 | Perish, base prince, ignoble Duke of York! | Perish base Prince, ignoble Duke of Yorke. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.196 | So will this base and envious discord breed. | So will this base and enuious discord breed. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.ii.68 | Signor, hang! Base muleteers of France! | Seignior hang: base Muleters of France, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.14 | I vowed, base knight, when I did meet thee next | I vow'd (base Knight) when I did meete the next, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.vi.21 | Bespoke him thus: ‘ Contaminated, base, | Bespoke him thus: Contaminated, base, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.ii.18 | Of all base passions fear is most accursed. | Of all base passions, Feare is most accurst. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iii.113 | Than is a slave in base servility; | Than is a slaue, in base seruility: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iv.7 | Decrepit miser! Base ignoble wretch! | Decrepit Miser, base ignoble Wretch, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.v.49 | That he should be so abject, base, and poor | That he should be so abiect, base, and poore, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.ii.62 | While Gloucester bears this base and humble mind. | While Gloster beares this base and humble minde. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iii.38 | Away, base cullions! Suffolk, let them go. | Away, base Cullions: Suffolke let them goe. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iii.191 | Base dunghill villain and mechanical, | Base Dunghill Villaine, and Mechanicall, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.13 | My lord, 'tis but a base ignoble mind | My Lord, 'tis but a base ignoble minde, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.i.39 | Never yet did base dishonour blur our name | Neuer yet did base dishonour blurre our name, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.i.67 | Base slave, thy words are blunt and so art thou. | Base slaue, thy words are blunt, and so art thou. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.i.106 | Small things make base men proud. This villain here, | Small things make base men proud. This Villaine heere, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.142 | And will you credit this base drudge's words, | And will you credit this base Drudges Wordes, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.viii.20 | And you, base peasants, do ye believe him? Will | And you base Pezants, do ye beleeue him, will |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.viii.62 | only my followers' base and ignominious treasons, makes | onely my Followers base and ignominious treasons, makes |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.178 | Base, fearful, and despairing Henry! | Base, fearefull, and despayring Henry. |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.i.104 | Yet I am richer than my base accusers | Yet I am richer then my base Accusers, |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.i.36 | Envy and base opinion set against 'em, | Enuy and base opinion set against 'em, |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iii.125 | They are too thin and bare to hide offences; | They are too thin, and base to hide offences, |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.iii.110 | For the base matter to illuminate | For the base matter, to illuminate |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.26 | Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees | Lookes in the Clouds, scorning the base degrees |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.43 | Low-crooked curtsies and base spaniel fawning. | Low-crooked-curtsies, and base Spaniell fawning: |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.ii.29 | so base that would be a bondman? If any, speak; for | so base, that would be a Bondman? If any, speak, for |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.ii.189 | Even at the base of Pompey's statue, | Euen at the Base of Pompeyes Statue |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.24 | Contaminate our fingers with base bribes, | Contaminate our fingers, with base Bribes? |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.183 | That never base affections enter there. | That neuer base affections enter there, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iv.79 | That such base breath should vanish from my lips, | That such base breath should vanish from my lips |
| King John | KJ II.i.586 | To a most base and vile-concluded peace. | To a most base and vile-concluded peace. |
| King John | KJ V.i.68 | Insinuation, parley, and base truce | Insinuation, parley, and base truce |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.6 | Lag of a brother? Why bastard? Wherefore base? | Lag of a Brother? Why Bastard? Wherefore base? |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.10 | With ‘ base ’? with ‘ baseness ’? ‘ bastardy ’? ‘ base, base ’? | With Base? With basenes Barstadie? Base, Base? |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.20 | And my invention thrive, Edmund the base | And my inuention thriue, Edmond the base |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.85 | Nor tripped neither, you base football-player. | Nor tript neither, you base Foot-ball plaier. |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.13 | A knave, a rascal, an eater of broken meats, a base, | A Knaue, a Rascall, an eater of broken meates, a base, |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.210 | To keep base life afoot. Return with her! | To keepe base life a foote; returne with her? |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.87 | Save base authority from others' books. | Saue base authoritie from others Bookes. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.241 | There did I see that low-spirited swain, that base minnow | There did I see that low spirited Swaine, that base Minow |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.ii.48 | Which the base vulgar do call three. | Which the base vulgar call three. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.ii.57 | base for a soldier to love, so am I in love with a base | base for a Souldier to loue; so am I in loue with a base |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.ii.161 | I do affect the very ground, which is base, | I doe affect the very ground (which is base) |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.16 | Not uttered by base sale of chapmen's tongues. | Not vttred by base sale of chapmens tongues: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.93 | yours, and welcome to the wide fields too base to be | yours, and welcome to the wide fields, too base to be |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.i.71 | base and obscure vulgar! – videlicet, he came, see, and | base and obscure vulgar; videliset, He came, See, and |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.223 | Kisses the base ground with obedient breast? | Kisses the base ground with obedient breast? |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.92 | In base appliances. This outward-sainted deputy, | In base appliances. This outward sainted Deputie, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.vii.50 | To think so base a thought; it were too gross | To thinke so base a thought, it were too grose |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ix.20 | To my heart's hope! Gold, silver, and base lead. | To my hearts hope: gold, siluer, and base lead. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iii.19 | O base Hungarian wight! Wilt thou the spigot wield? | O base hungarian wight: wilt yu the spigot wield. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iii.72 | I will run no base humour. Here, take the humour-letter. | I will run no base humor: here take the humor-Letter; |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iii.83 | Base Phrygian Turk! | Base Phrygian Turke. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.232 | Things base and vile, holding no quantity, | Things base and vilde, holding no quantity, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.190 | base, though bitter, disposition of Beatrice that puts the | base (though bitter) disposition of Beatrice, that putt's the |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.270 | And all indign and base adversities | And all indigne, and base aduersities, |
| Othello | Oth II.i.209 | valiant – as they say base men being in love have then a | Valiant, (as they say base men being in Loue, haue then a |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.271 | Prerogatived are they less than the base. | Prerogatiu'd are they lesse then the Base, |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.139 | Some base notorious knave, some scurvy fellow. | Some base notorious Knaue, some scuruy Fellow. |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.343 | Like the base Indian threw a pearl away | (Like the base Iudean) threw a Pearle away |
| Pericles | Per II.v.61 | That never relished of a base descent. | That neuer relisht of a base discent: |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.192 | Or sound so base a parle, my teeth shall tear | Or sound so base a parle: my teeth shall teare |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.23 | Limps after in base imitation. | Limpes after in base imitation. |
| Richard II | R2 II.iii.138 | Base men by his endowments are made great. | Base men by his endowments are made great. |
| Richard II | R2 II.iv.20 | Fall to the base earth from the firmament. | Fall to the base Earth, from the Firmament: |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.176 | My lord, in the base-court he doth attend | My Lord, in the base Court he doth attend |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.180 | In the base-court – base-court, where kings grow base | In the base Court? base Court, where Kings grow base, |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.182 | In the base-court. Come down – down court, down King, | In the base Court come down: down Court, down King, |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.191 | To make the base earth proud with kissing it. | To make the base Earth prowd with kissing it. |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.20 | What answer shall I make to this base man? | What answer shall I make to this base man? |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.28 | In thy heart-blood, though being all too base | In thy heart blood, though being all too base |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.250 | Made glory base, and sovereignty a slave; | Made Glory base; a Soueraigntie, a Slaue; |
| Richard II | R2 V.i.33 | And fawn on rage with base humility, | And fawne on Rage with base Humilitie, |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.188 | To base declension and loathed bigamy. | To base declension, and loath'd Bigamie. |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.251 | A base foul stone, made precious by the foil | A base foule Stone, made precious by the soyle |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.318 | A scum of Britains and base lackey peasants, | A scum of Brittaines, and base Lackey Pezants, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.i.44.2 | All but the bass. | All but the base. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.i.45 | The bass is right, 'tis the base knave that jars. | The base is right, 'tis the base knaue that iars. |
| The Tempest | Tem III.iii.101 | The name of Prosper: it did bass my trespass. | The name of Prosper: it did base my Trespasse, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.67 | Feigned Fortune to be throned. The base o'th' mount | Feign'd Fortune to be thron'd. / The Base o'th'Mount |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.iii.6 | They have all been touched and found base metal, | They haue all bin touch'd, and found Base-Mettle, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.iv.59 | If 'twill not serve, 'tis not so base as you, | If't 'twill not serue, 'tis not so base as you, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.v.94 | It could not else be I should prove so base | It could not else be, I should proue so bace, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.30 | Base noble, old young, coward valiant. | Base, Noble; Old, young; Coward, valiant. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.i.108 | For these base bondmen to the yoke of Rome. | For these bad bond-men to the yoake of Rome. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.71 | Zounds, ye whore, is black so base a hue? | Out you whore, is black so base a hue? |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.i.43 | And here's the base fruit of her burning lust. | And heere's the Base Fruit of his burning lust. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.184 | I am no baby, I, that with base prayers | I am no Baby I, that with base Prayers |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.93 | Richer than sea and land? O, theft most base, | Richer then Sea and Land? O Theft most base! |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.154 | On terms of base compulsion! Can it be | On termes of base compulsion? Can it be, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.ii.102 | But the strong base and building of my love | But the strong base and building of my loue, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.212 | When we have here her base and pillar by us. | When we haue heere her Base and pillar by vs. |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.73 | Though, I confess, on base and ground enough, | Though I confesse, on base and ground enough |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.ii.96 | The mean is drowned with your unruly bass. | The meane is dround with you vnruly base. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.ii.97 | Indeed, I bid the bass for Proteus. | Indeede I bid the base for Protheus. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iv.157 | To bear my lady's train, lest the base earth | To beare my Ladies traine, lest the base earth |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.vii.73 | Base men, that use them to so base effect! | Base men, that vse them to so base effect; |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.157 | Go, base intruder, overweening slave, | Goe base Intruder, ouer-weening Slaue, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.i.28 | Without false vantage or base treachery. | Without false vantage, or base treachery. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.i.73 | No, we detest such vile base practices. | No, we detest such vile base practises. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.iv.137 | The more degenerate and base art thou | The more degenerate and base art thou |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.197.1 | And leaves him to base briars. | And leaves him to base briers. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.iii.2 | He never will affect me; I am base, | He never will affect me; I am base, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.iii.44 | That sigh was breathed for Emily. Base cousin, | That sigh was breathd for Emily; base Cosen, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.117.1 | But base disposers of it. | But base disposers of it. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.415 | Whom son I dare not call: thou art too base | Whom sonne I dare not call: Thou art too base |