| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.ii.36 | So like a courtier, contempt nor bitterness | So like a Courtier, contempt nor bitternesse |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.ii.6 | special, when you put off that with such contempt? But | speciall, when you put off that with such contempt, but |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.156 | We please to have it grow. Check thy contempt. | We please to haue it grow. Checke thy contempt: |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.ii.31 | For the contempt of empire. | For the contempt of Empire. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.48 | Contempt his scornful perspective did lend me, | Contempt his scornfull Perspectiue did lend me, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.ii.124 | What our contempts doth often hurl from us, | What our contempts doth often hurle from vs, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.181 | But wrong not that wrong with a more contempt. | But wrong not that wrong with a more contempt. |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.iii.199 | He did solicit you in free contempt | He did sollicite you in free Contempt, |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.iii.201 | That his contempt shall not be bruising to you | That his Contempt shall not be brusing to you, |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.iii.220 | With what contempt he wore the humble weed, | With what Contempt he wore the humble Weed, |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.91 | And make me put into contempt the suits | and makes me put into contempt the suites |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.v.42.1 | Can her contempt be answered? | Can her contempt be answer'd? |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.v.141 | be a torment to her contempt. He on the ground, | be a torment to hir contempt. He on the ground, |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.27 | Nature hath meal, and bran; contempt, and grace. | "Nature hath Meale, and Bran; Contempt, and Grace. |
| 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 V.ii.50 | How showed his tasking? Seemed it in contempt? | How shew'd his Talking? Seem'd it in contempt? |
| Henry V | H5 II.ii.172 | His subjects to oppression and contempt, | His Subiects to oppression, and contempt, |
| Henry V | H5 II.iv.117 | Scorn and defiance, slight regard, contempt, | Scorne and defiance, sleight regard, contempt, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.ii.75 | To shine on my contemptible estate. | To shine on my contemptible estate. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iv.31 | Once, in contempt, they would have bartered me; | Once in contempt they would haue barter'd me: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iii.81 | Contemptuous base-born callet as she is, | Contemptuous base-borne Callot as she is, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.i.78 | Who in contempt shall hiss at thee again; | Who in contempt shall hisse at thee againe. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.i.209 | And tread it under foot with all contempt, | And tread it vnder foot with all contempt, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.42 | Turn me away, and let the foul'st contempt | Turne me away: and let the fowl'st Contempt |
| King Edward III | E3 I.i.26 | And that's the special ground of their contempt | And thats the speciall ground of their contempt: |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.9 | Contemptuous villains, call ye now for truce? | Gontemptuous villaines, call ye now for truce? |
| King John | KJ II.i.88 | Their proud contempt that beats His peace to heaven. | Their proud contempt that beats his peace to heauen. |
| King John | KJ II.i.384 | The flinty ribs of this contemptuous city. | The flintie ribbes of this contemptuous Citie, |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.284 | To laughter and contempt, that she may feel | To laughter, and contempt: That she may feele, |
| King Lear | KL II.iii.8 | That ever penury, in contempt of man, | That euer penury in contempt of man, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.187 | Sir, the contempts thereof are as touching me. | Sir the Contempts thereof are as touching mee. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.149 | Why, that contempt will kill the speaker's heart, | Why that contempt will kill the keepers heart, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.180 | as you know all, hath a contemptible spirit. | (as you know all) hath a contemptible spirit. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.i.109 | Contempt, farewell! and maiden pride, adieu! | Contempt, farewell, and maiden pride, adew, |
| Richard II | R2 V.ii.27 | Even so, or with much more contempt, men's eyes | Euen so, or with much more contempt, mens eyes |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.172 | For kissing, lady, not for such contempt. | For kissing Lady, not for such contempt. |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.79 | Held in contempt, while great promotions | Held in contempt, while great Promotions |
| Richard III | R3 IV.ii.119 | With such contempt? Made I him king for this? | With such contempt? made I him King for this? |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.i.71 | Contempt and beggary hangs upon thy back. | Contempt and beggery hangs vpon thy backe: |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.ii.15 | Walks, like contempt, alone. More of our fellows. | Walkes like contempt alone. More of our Fellowes. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.ii.32 | Since riches point to misery and contempt? | Since Riches point to Misery and Contempt? |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.8 | But by contempt of nature. | But by contempt of Nature. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.10 | The senator shall bear contempt hereditary, | The Senators shall beare contempt Hereditary, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iv.4 | Of egall justice, used in such contempt? | Of egall iustice, vs'd in such contempt? |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iv.34 | For these contempts. (Aside) Why, thus it shall become | For these contempts. Why thus it shall become |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.i.12 | Ingrateful Rome requites with foul contempt, | Ingratefull Rome requites with foule contempt: |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.277 | Placed in contempt. Farewell, fair cruelty! | Plac'd in contempt: Farwell fayre crueltie. |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iii.118 | at anything more than contempt, you would not give | at any thing more then contempt, you would not giue |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.88 | her great P's. It is, in contempt of question, her hand. | her great P's. It is in contempt of question her hand. |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.196 | but turn him into a notable contempt. If you will see it, | but turn him into a notable contempt: if you wil see it |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.i.143 | In the contempt and anger of his lip! | In the contempt and anger of his lip, |
| 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.131 | For, in revenge of my contempt of love, | For in reuenge of my contempt of loue, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.115 | For my contempt; then all the world will scorn us, | For my contempt; Then all the world will scorne us, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.189 | Will hiss me to my grave. Contempt and clamour | Will hisse me to my Graue: Contempt and Clamor |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.373 | A lip of much contempt, speeds from me, and | A Lippe of much contempt, speedes from me, and |
| 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 |