| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.vi.1 | Contemning Rome, he has done all this and more | Contemning Rome he ha's done all this, & more |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iii.44 | At Grecian sword, contemning. Tell Valeria | At Grecian sword. Contenning, tell Valeria |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.ii.155 | As if he did contemn what he requested | As if he did contemne what he requested, |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vii.41 | Contemn with mows the other. Nor i'the judgement: | Contemne with mowes the other. Nor i'th'iudgment: |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.10 | Have uncontemned gone by him, or at least | Haue vncontemn'd gone by him, or at least |
| King John | KJ V.ii.13 | Should seek a plaster by contemned revolt, | Should seeke a plaster by contemn'd reuolt, |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.141 | Is such as basest and contemned'st wretches | |
| King Lear | KL IV.i.1 | Yet better thus, and known to be contemned, | Yet better thus, and knowne to be contemn'd, |
| King Lear | KL IV.i.2 | Than still contemned and flattered. To be worst, | Then still contemn'd and flatter'd, to be worst: |
| King Lear | KL IV.ii.32 | That nature which contemns its origin | |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.259 | Write loyal cantons of contemned love | Write loyall Cantons of contemned loue, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iv.127 | I have done penance for contemning Love, | I haue done pennance for contemning Loue, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.143 | Was begged and banished, this is he contemns thee | Was begd and banish'd, this is he contemnes thee |