| 1H6 IV.v.46 | [Talbot to John Talbot, of their fleeing] My age was never tainted with such shame |
| CE III.ii.13 | [Luciana to Antipholus of Syracuse] Bear a fair presence, though your heart be tainted |
| Cor IV.vii.38 | [Aufidius to Lieutenant] pride, / Which out of daily fortune ever taints / The happy man |
| Cym I.v.133 | [Iachimo to Posthumus] If you buy ladies' flesh at a million a dram, you cannot preserve it from tainting |
| E3 II.i.439 | [Warwick to Countess] The freshest summer's day doth soonest taint / The loathed carrion that it seems to kiss |
| H8 III.ii.332.1 | [Surrey to Wolsey, of Wolsey's further faults] Which ... / I will not taint my mouth with |
| Ham I.v.85 | [Ghost to Hamlet] Taint not thy mind ... / Against thy mother aught |
| TC III.iii.232 | [Patroclus to Achilles] danger ... subtly taints / Even then when we sit idly in the sun [i.e. by making things go rotten] |
| TNK V.iii.9 | [Emilia to Pirithous] not taint mine eye / With dread sights it may shun |