| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| 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 2 | 2H6 III.ii.204 | He dares not calm his contumelious spirit, | He dares not calme his contumelious Spirit, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.172 | Of contumelious, beastly, mad-brained war, | Of contumelious, beastly, mad-brain'd warre: |