| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.150 | Proud, scornful boy, unworthy this good gift, | Proud scornfull boy, vnworthie this good gift, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.48 | Contempt his scornful perspective did lend me, | Contempt his scornfull Perspectiue did lend me, |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.iii.162 | He used us scornfully. He should have showed us | He vs'd vs scornefully: he should haue shew'd vs |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.228 | Shall's have a play of this? Thou scornful page, | Shall's haue a play of this? / Thou scornfull Page, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.ii.40 | And our air shakes them passing scornfully. | And our Ayre shakes them passing scornefully. |
| King Edward III | E3 I.ii.7 | To be the scornful captive to a Scot, | To be the scornefull captiue to a Scot, |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.161 | Into her scornful eyes! Infect her beauty, | Into her scornfull eyes: Infect her Beauty, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.91 | About him, fairies, sing a scornful rhyme, | About him (Fairies) sing a scornfull rime, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.95 | Scornful Lysander – true, he hath my love; | Scornfull Lysander, true, he hath my Loue; |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.171 | She looks scornfully at him | She lookes scornfully at him. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.136 | And dart not scornful glances from those eyes | And dart not scornefull glances from those eies, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.v.43 | This is that scornful piece, that scurvy hilding, | This is that scornefull peece, that scurvy hilding |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.ii.61 | But he is like his master, coy and scornful. | But he is like his master coy and scornefull. |