| 1H6 I.i.137 | [Third Messenger to all] A base Walloon, to win the Dauphin's grace, / Thrust Talbot with a spear into the back [or: sense 1] |
| 1H6 I.ii.80 | [Pucelle to Charles, of the Virgin Mary] Willed me to leave my base vocation / And free my country from calamity |
| 1H6 I.iv.30 | [Talbot to all, of being ransomed for Lord Ponton] with a baser man-of-arms by far / Once, in contempt, they would have bartered me |
| 1H6 III.ii.68 | [Talbot to French lords] Base muleteers of France! |
| 1H6 IV.vi.21 | [Talbot to John, of the Bastard] Contaminated, base, / And misbegotten blood I spill of thine |
| 1H6 V.iv.7 | [Pucelle to Shepherd] Decrepit miser! Base ignoble wretch! |
| 2H4 V.iii.92 | [Pistol to Silence] Puff i'thy teeth, most recreant coward base! |
| 2H4 V.iii.99 | [Pistol to Falstaff] A foutre for the world and worldlings base! |
| 2H6 I.iii.191 | [York to Horner] Base dunghill villain and mechanical |
| 2H6 I.iii.38 | [Queen to petitioners] Away, base cullions! |
| 2H6 IV.i.106 | [Suffolk to all] Small things make base men proud |
| 2H6 IV.i.67 | [Suffolk to Lieutenant] Base slave, thy words are blunt and so art thou |
| 2H6 IV.ii.142 | [Stafford to Smith] will you credit this base drudge's words |
| AW I.i.180 | [Helena to Parolles] the poorer born, / Whose baser stars do shut us up in wishes [i.e. the stars which doom someone to a lowly life] |
| Cor I.i.155 | [Menenius to First Citizen] being one o'th'lowest, basest, poorest / Of this most wise rebellion, thou goest foremost [or: sense 1] |
| Cor III.i.108 | [Coriolanus to all, of giving the plebeians power] It makes the consuls base! |
| Cym I.ii.56 | [Cymbeline to Posthumus] Thou basest thing, avoid hence, from my sight! [or: sense 1] |
| Cym II.iii.112 | [Cloten to Innogen, of Posthumus] The contract you pretend with that base wretch, / One bred of alms |
| Cym II.iii.121 | [Cloten to Innogen, of her relationship to Posthumus] with a base slave, / A hilding for a livery |
| Cym IV.ii.26 | [Belarius to himself] Cowards father cowards, and base things sire base |
| H5 II.i.27 | [Pistol to Nym] Base tike, call'st thou me host? [or: sense 1] |
| H5 III.i.29 | [King Henry to all] For there is none of you so mean and base / That hath not noble lustre in your eyes |
| H5 IV.i.38 | [Pistol to disguised King Henry] art thou officer, / Or art thou base, common, and popular? |
| H5 V.i.18 | [Pistol to Fluellen] Dost thou thirst, base Troyan [or: sense 1] |
| H8 III.i.36 | [Queen Katherine to Wolsey, of her actions] Envy and base opinion set against 'em |
| Ham V.ii.60 | [Hamlet to Horatio] 'Tis dangerous when the baser nature comes / Between the pass and fell incensed points / Of mighty opposites |
| JC I.i.61 | [Flavius to Marullus, of the Commoners] See where their basest mettle be not moved |
| JC III.i.43 | [Caesar to Metellus] sweet words, / Low-crooked curtsies and base spaniel fawning or: sense 1] |
| JC III.ii.29 | [Brutus to all] Who is here so base that would be a bondman? |
| KL I.ii.20 | [Edmund alone] Edmund the base / Shall top the legitimate |
| KL I.ii.6 | [Edmund alone] Why bastard? Wherefore base? |
| KL I.iv.85 | [Kent to Oswald] you base football-player [or: sense 1] |
| KL II.ii.13 | [Kent to and of Oswald] a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy-worsted-stocking knave [or: sense 1] |
| KL II.ii.141 | [Gloucester to Conwall, of the treatment of disguised Kent] Your purposed low correction / Is such as basest and contemned'st wretches ... / Are punished with |
| LLL I.i.241 | [King reading Armado's letter to him, of Costard] that low-spirited swain, that base minnow of thy mirth |
| LLL I.i.30 | [Dumaine to King, of himself] The grosser manner of these world's delights / He throws upon the gross world's baser slaves |
| LLL I.ii.48 | [Mote to Armado, of the meaning of ‘deuce-ace’] Which the base vulgar do call three |
| LLL I.ii.57 | [Armado to Mote] as it is base for a soldier to love, so am I in love with a base wench [second instance] |
| Luc.671 | [Tarquin to Lucrece] I mean to bear thee / Unto the base bed of some rascal groom |
| MW I.iii.72 | [Nym to Falstaff, of delivering a letter] I will run no base humour |
| Oth II.i.209 | [Iago to Rodedigo] they say base men being in love have then a nobility in their natures more than is native to them |
| R2 II.iii.138 | [Willoughby to York, of Bolingbroke] Base men by his endowments are made great |
| R3 V.iii.318 | [King Richard to all, of Richmond's army] A scum of Britains and base lackey peasants [or: sense 3] |
| Tim III.v.94 | [Alcibiades to Senators] I cannot think but your age has forgot me; / It could not else be I should prove so base / To sue and be denied such common grace |
| Tim IV.iii.30 | [Timon alone, of the gold he has found] Thus much of this will make / Black white, foul fair, wrong right, / Base noble, old young, coward valiant |
| Tit IV.i.108 | [Young Lucius to Titus, of Chiron and Demetrius] For these base bondmen to the yoke of Rome [or: sense 1] |
| TNK II.iii.2 | [Daughter to herself, of Palamon] I am base, / My father the mean keeper of his prison |