| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.93 | Sure, they are bastards to the English; the French ne'er | sure they are bastards to the English, the French nere |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.i.196 | No, that same wicked bastard of Venus, that | No, that same wicked Bastard of Venus, that |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.ii.19 | Shame hath a bastard fame, well managed; | Shame hath a bastard fame, well managed, |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.ii.56 | Your tongue, though but bastards and syllables | your Tongue; / Though but Bastards, and Syllables |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.ii.27 | Bastards and all. | Bastards, and all. |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.v.232 | more bastard children than war's a destroyer of men. | more bastard Children, then warres a destroyer of men. |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.154 | Must be half-workers? We are all bastards, | Must be halfe-workers? We are all Bastards, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.119 | That drop of blood that's calm proclaims me bastard, | That drop of blood, that calmes / Proclaimes me Bastard: |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.26 | Score a pint of bastard in the Half-moon!’, or so. But | Score a Pint of Bastard in the Halfe Moone, or so. But |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.71 | Why then your brown bastard is your only | Why then your browne Bastard is your onely |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.i.47 | the channel! Wilt thou, wilt thou, thou bastardly rogue? | Wilt thou? wilt thou? thou bastardly rogue. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.278 | Ha! A bastard son of the King's? And art not | Ha? a Bastard Sonne of the Kings? And art not |
| Henry V | H5 III.ii.119 | villain, and a bastard, and a knave, and a rascal. What | Villaine, and a Basterd, and a Knaue, and a Rascall. What |
| Henry V | H5 III.v.10 | Normans, but bastard Normans, Norman bastards! | Normans, but bastard Normans, Norman bastards: |
| Henry V | H5 III.v.31 | To new-store France with bastard warriors. | To new-store France with Bastard Warriors. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.93 | The Bastard of Orleans with him is joined; | The Bastard of Orleance with him is ioyn'd: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.ii.46 | Enter the Bastard of Orleans | Enter the Bastard of Orleance. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.ii.47 | Bastard of Orleans, thrice welcome to us. | Bastard of Orleance, thrice welcome to vs. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.ii.60 | Exit Bastard | |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.ii.64 | Enter Joan la Pucelle and the Bastard | Enter Ioane Puzel. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.i.39.2 | several ways, the Bastard, Alençon, Reignier, half | seuerall wayes, Bastard, Alanson, Reignier halfe |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.42 | Thou bastard of my grandfather! | Thou Bastard of my Grandfather. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.ii.18.1 | Enter Charles, the Bastard, Alençon, Reignier, and | Enter Charles, Bastard, Alanson. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.ii.41.4 | Pucelle, Charles, the Bastard, Alençon, and Reignier | Pucell, Charles, Bastard, and Reigneir |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.ii.123 | Now where's the Bastard's braves and Charles his gleeks? | Now where's the Bastards braues, and Charles his glikes? |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.iii.1.1 | Enter Charles, the Bastard, Alençon, Joan la Pucelle, | Enter Charles, Bastard, Alanson, Pucell. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.iv.26 | Orleans the Bastard, Charles, Burgundy, | Orleance the Bastard, Charles, Burgundie, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.v.15 | To make a bastard and a slave of me. | To make a Bastard, and a Slaue of me: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.vi.16 | The ireful Bastard Orleans, that drew blood | The irefull Bastard Orleance, that drew blood |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.vi.20 | Some of his bastard blood; and in disgrace | Some of his Bastard blood, and in disgrace |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.vi.25 | Here, purposing the Bastard to destroy, | Here purposing the Bastard to destroy, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.vii.33 | Enter Charles, Alençon, Burgundy, the Bastard, and | Enter Charles, Alanson, Burgundie, Bastard, and |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.ii.1.1 | Enter Charles, Burgundy, Alençon, the Bastard, | Enter Charles, Burgundy, Alanson, Bastard, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iv.70 | Well, go to; we'll have no bastards live, | Well go too, we'll haue no Bastards liue, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iv.116.1 | Enter Charles, Alençon, the Bastard, Reignier, and | Enter Charles, Alanson, Bastard, Reignier. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.223 | That thou thyself was born in bastardy; | That thou thy selfe wast borne in Bastardie; |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.i.138 | Murdered sweet Tully; Brutus' bastard hand | Murder'd sweet Tully. Brutus Bastard hand |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.i.115 | To say if that the bastard boys of York | To say, if that the Bastard boyes of Yorke |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.138 | Is guilty of a several bastardy, | Is guilty of a seuerall Bastardie, |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.iv.2 | What bastard doth not? Who will go with me? | What Bastard doth not? Who will go with me? |
| King John | KJ I.i.49.1 | Enter Robert Faulconbridge and Philip, his bastard | Enter Robert Faulconbridge, and Philip. |
| King John | KJ I.i.74 | But once he slandered me with bastardy. | But once he slanderd me with bastardy: |
| King John | KJ I.i.181 | Exeunt all but the Bastard | Exeunt all but bastard. |
| King John | KJ I.i.207 | For he is but a bastard to the time | For he is but a bastard to the time |
| King John | KJ II.i.65 | With them a bastard of the King's deceased. | With them a Bastard of the Kings deceast, |
| King John | KJ II.i.84.1 | Enter King John, Queen Eleanor, Blanche, the | Enter K. of England, Bastard, Queene, Blanch, |
| King John | KJ II.i.84.2 | Bastard, lords, and soldiers | Pembroke, and others. |
| King John | KJ II.i.122 | Out, insolent! Thy bastard shall be king | Out insolent, thy bastard shall be King, |
| King John | KJ II.i.129 | My boy a bastard! By my soul, I think | My boy a bastard? by my soule I thinke |
| King John | KJ II.i.276 | Bastards and else! | Bastards and else. |
| King John | KJ II.i.279 | Some bastards too! | Some Bastards too. |
| King John | KJ II.i.334.2 | the Bastard, lords, and soldiers; on the other side | at seuerall doores. |
| King John | KJ II.i.560 | Exeunt all but the Bastard | Exeunt. |
| King John | KJ III.i.75.2 | the Dauphin, Blanche, the Bastard, Austria, and | Austria, Constance. |
| King John | KJ III.i.339 | Exit the Bastard | |
| King John | KJ III.ii.1.1 | Alarums, excursions. Enter the Bastard, with | Allarums, Excursions: Enter Bastard with |
| King John | KJ III.iii.1.2 | Queen Eleanor, Arthur, the Bastard, Hubert, lords | Eleanor, Arthur / Bastard, Hubert, Lords. |
| King John | KJ III.iii.6 | (to the Bastard) | |
| King John | KJ III.iii.17 | Exit the Bastard | |
| King John | KJ III.iv.171 | Than I have named! The bastard Faulconbridge | Then I haue nam'd. The Bastard Falconbridge |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.131 | Enter the Bastard and Peter of Pomfret | Enter Bastard and Peter of Pomfret. |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.132 | With these ill tidings. (to the Bastard) Now, what says the world | With these ill tydings: Now? What sayes the world |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.21.1 | Enter the Bastard | Enter Bastard. |
| King John | KJ V.i.30 | Enter the Bastard | Enter Bastard. |
| King John | KJ V.ii.118.1 | Enter the Bastard | Enter Bastard. |
| King John | KJ V.vi.1 | Enter the Bastard and Hubert, severally | Enter Bastard and Hubert, seuerally. |
| King John | KJ V.vii.49 | Enter the Bastard | Enter Bastard. |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.1.1 | Enter Edmund | Enter Bastard. |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.6 | Lag of a brother? Why bastard? Wherefore base? | Lag of a Brother? Why Bastard? Wherefore base? |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.10 | With ‘ base ’? with ‘ baseness ’? ‘ bastardy ’? ‘ base, base ’? | With Base? With basenes Barstadie? Base, Base? |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.17 | Our father's love is to the bastard Edmund | Our Fathers loue, is to the Bastard Edmond, |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.22 | Now gods stand up for bastards! | Now Gods, stand vp for Bastards. |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.132 | firmament twinkled on my bastardizing. Edgar – | Firmament twinkled on my bastardizing. |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.250 | Degenerate bastard, I'll not trouble thee. | Degenerate Bastard, Ile not trouble thee; |
| King Lear | KL II.i.1 | Enter Edmund and Curan by opposite doors | Enter Bastard, and Curan, seuerally. |
| King Lear | KL II.i.66 | ‘ Thou unpossessing bastard, dost thou think, | Thou vnpossessing Bastard, dost thou thinke, |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.41.1 | Enter Edmund, Cornwall, Regan, Gloucester, and | Enter Bastard, Cornewall, Regan, Gloster, |
| King Lear | KL III.vii.1.1 | Enter Cornwall, Regan, Gonerill, Edmund, and | Enter Cornwall, Regan, Gonerill, Bastard, and |
| King Lear | KL IV.ii.1.1 | Enter Gonerill and Edmund | Enter Gonerill, Bastard, and Steward. |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.114 | Let copulation thrive; for Gloucester's bastard son | Let Copulation thriue: / For Glousters bastard Son |
| King Lear | KL IV.vii.89 | As 'tis said, the bastard son of Gloucester. | |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.i.70 | heavens were so pleased that thou wert but my bastard, | heauens were so pleased, that thou wert but my Bastard; |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.3 | have all the world drink brown and white bastard. | haue all the world drinke browne & white bastard. |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.112 | bastards, he would have paid for the nursing a thousand. | Bastards, he would haue paide for the Nursing a thousand. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.v.7 | kind of bastard hope neither. | kinde of bastard hope neither. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.v.11 | That were a kind of bastard hope indeed! So the | That were a kinde of bastard hope indeed, so the |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.89.2 | Don John the Bastard | Iohn the bastard. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.189 | Enter Don Pedro | Enter don Pedro, Iohn the bastard. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.iii.1.1 | Enter Don John the Bastard and Conrade his | Enter Sir Iohn the Bastard, and Conrade his |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.ii.71 | Enter Don John | Enter Iohn the Bastard. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.1.1 | Enter Don Pedro, Don John, Leonato, Friar Francis, | Enter Prince, Bastard, Leonato, Frier, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.186 | The practice of it lives in John the Bastard, | The practise of it liues in Iohn the bastard, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.183 | company. Your brother the Bastard is fled from | companie, your brother the Bastard is fled from |
| Pericles | Per IV.ii.14 | bastards – as, I think, I have brought up some eleven – | bastards, as I thinke, I haue brought vp some eleuen. |
| Richard II | R2 V.ii.107 | And that he is a bastard, not thy son. | And that he is a Bastard, not thy Sonne: |
| Richard III | R3 III.v.74 | Infer the bastardy of Edward's children. | Inferre the Bastardie of Edwards Children: |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.4 | Touched you the bastardy of Edward's children? | Toucht you the Bastardie of Edwards Children? |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.9 | His tyranny for trifles; his own bastardy, | His Tyrannie for Trifles, his owne Bastardie, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.ii.18 | Shall I be plain? I wish the bastards dead, | Shall I be plaine? I wish the Bastards dead, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.ii.74 | Tyrrel, I mean those bastards in the Tower. | Tyrrel, I meane those Bastards in the Tower. |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.334 | And not these bastard Britains, whom our fathers | And not these bastard Britaines, whom our Fathers |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.273 | For he's a bastard one – had plotted with them | (For he's a bastard one) had plotted with them |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.109 | Ho, ho! I laugh to think that babe a bastard. | Ho, ho: I laugh to thinke that babe a bastard. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.ii.87 | Alcibiades. Go, thou wast born a bastard, and thou'lt | Alcibiades. Go thou was't borne a Bastard, and thou't |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.121 | Think it a bastard whom the oracle | Thinke it a Bastard, whom the Oracle |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.148 | What, wouldst thou have me prove myself a bastard? | What, / Would'st thou haue me proue myselfe a bastard? |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.i.48 | And by his side his fruit of bastardy. | And by his side his Fruite of Bastardie. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.v.7 | Hath beat down Menon; bastard Margarelon | Hath beate downe Menon: bastard Margarelon |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.vii.13 | Enter Margarelon | Enter Bastard. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.vii.15 | A bastard son of Priam's. | A Bastard Sonne of Priams. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.vii.16 | I am a bastard too; I love bastards. I am a | I am a Bastard too, I loue Bastards, I am a |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.vii.17 | bastard begot, bastard instructed, bastard in mind, | Bastard begot, Bastard instructed, Bastard in minde, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.vii.18 | bastard in valour, in everything illegitimate. One bear | Bastard in valour, in euery thing illegitimate: one Beare |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.vii.19 | will not bite another, and wherefore should one bastard? | will not bite another, and wherefore should one Bastard? |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.vii.22 | judgement. Farewell, bastard. | iudgement: farewell Bastard. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.310 | That's as much as to say, bastard virtues; that | That's as much as to say Bastard-vertues: that |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.iii.80 | Like old emportment's bastard – has this end, | Like old importments bastard, has this end, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.73 | Will you not push her out? Give her the bastard. | Will you not push her out? Giue her the Bastard, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.75 | By thy Dame Partlet here. Take up the bastard! | By thy dame Partlet heere. Take vp the Bastard, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.139 | The bastard brains with these my proper hands | The Bastard-braynes with these my proper hands |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.154 | Shall I live on to see this bastard kneel | Shall I liue on, to see this Bastard kneele, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.160 | To save this bastard's life – for 'tis a bastard, | To saue this Bastards life; for 'tis a Bastard, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.174 | This female bastard hence, and that thou bear it | This female Bastard hence, and that thou beare it |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.82 | You had a bastard by Polixenes, | You had a Bastard by Polixenes, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.83 | Which some call Nature's bastards; of that kind | (Which some call Natures bastards) of that kind |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.99.1 | And do not call them bastards. | And do not call them bastards. |