| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xiv.57 | Detest my baseness. I, that with my sword | Detest my basenesse. I, that with my Sword, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xiv.77.1 | His baseness that ensued? | His Basenesse that ensued. |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.ii.123.1 | A most inherent baseness. | A most inherent Basenesse. |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.ii.73.1 | A seat for baseness. | a Seate for basenesse. |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.v.89 | From whose so many weights of baseness cannot | From whose so many waights of basenesse, cannot |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.34 | A baseness to write fair, and laboured much | A basenesse to write faire; and laboured much |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.10 | With ‘ base ’? with ‘ baseness ’? ‘ bastardy ’? ‘ base, base ’? | With Base? With basenes Barstadie? Base, Base? |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.15 | Are nursed by baseness. Thou'rt by no means valiant, | Are nurst by basenesse: Thou'rt by no meanes valiant, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.20 | your honour! Why, thou unconfinable baseness, it is | your honor: why, (thou vnconfinable basenesse) it is |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.325 | baseness of our natures would conduct us to most | basenesse of our Natures would conduct vs to most |
| Othello | Oth III.iv.27 | Is true of mind, and made of no such baseness | Is true of minde, and made of no such basenesse, |
| The Tempest | Tem III.i.2 | Delight in them sets off. Some kinds of baseness | Delight in them set off: Some kindes of basenesse |
| The Tempest | Tem III.i.12 | Weeps when she sees me work, and says such baseness | Weepes when she sees me worke, & saies, such basenes |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.i.47 | And we alive that lived? Fly, damned baseness, | And we aliue that liued? Fly damned basenesse |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.144 | Alas, it is the baseness of thy fear | Alas, it is the basenesse of thy feare, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.78 | Tak'st up the Princess by that forced baseness | Tak'st vp the Princesse, by that forced basenesse |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.729 | on thy baseness court-contempt? Think'st thou, for | on thy Basenesse, Court-Contempt? Think'st thou, for |