| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.ii.34 | Till their own scorn return to them unnoted | Till their owne scorne returne to them vnnoted |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.132 | And these breed honour; that is honour's scorn | And these breed honour: that is honours scorne, |
| 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.18 | Whose dear perfection hearts that scorned to serve | Whose deere perfection, hearts that scorn'd to serue, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.48 | Contempt his scornful perspective did lend me, | Contempt his scornfull Perspectiue did lend me, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.50 | Scorned a fair colour or expressed it stolen, | Scorn'd a faire colour, or exprest it stolne, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xi.74 | We scorn her most when most she offers blows. | We scorne her most, when most she offers blowes. |
| As You Like It | AYL II.iv.18 | That is the way to make her scorn you still. | That is the way to make her scorne you still. |
| As You Like It | AYL III.iv.49 | And the red glow of scorn and proud disdain, | And the red glowe of scorne and prowd disdaine, |
| As You Like It | AYL III.v.1 | Sweet Phebe, do not scorn me, do not, Phebe. | Sweet Phebe doe not scorne me, do not Phebe |
| As You Like It | AYL III.v.131 | And, now I am remembered, scorned at me; | And now I am remembred, scorn'd at me: |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.ii.14 | Take thou no scorn to wear the horn, | Take thou no scorne to weare the horne, |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.ii.19 | Is not a thing to laugh to scorn. | Is not a thing to laugh to scorne. |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.51 | If the scorn of your bright eyne | If the scorne of your bright eine |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.215 | Whilst man and master laughs my woes to scorn. | Whil'st man and Master laughes my woes to scorne: |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.i.79 | If he should scorn me so apparently. | If he should scorne me so apparantly. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iv.72 | Did not her kitchen-maid rail, taunt, and scorn me? | Did not her Kitchen maide raile, taunt, and scorne me? |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iv.73 | Certes she did. The kitchen vestal scorned you. | Certis she did, the kitchin vestall scorn'd you. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iv.101 | To make a loathsome abject scorn of me. | To make a loathsome abiect scorne of 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 |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.iii.166 | And with his hat, thus waving it in scorn, | And with his Hat, thus wauing it in scorne, |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.iii.221 | How in his suit he scorned you; but your loves, | How in his Suit he scorn'd you: but your Loues, |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.267 | And therefore law shall scorn him further trial | And therefore Law shall scorne him further Triall |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.iv.53 | Lead, lead. The time seems long, their blood thinks scorn | Lead, lead; the time seems long, their blood thinks scorn |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.ii.7 | As I wear mine, are titles but of scorn. | As I weare mine) are titles but of scorne. |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.67 | And to become the geck and scorn | And to become the geeke and scorne |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.125 | A mother, and two brothers: but, O scorn! | A Mother, and two Brothers. But (oh scorne) |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.106 | He leaves me, scorns me: briefly die their joys | He leaues me, scornes me: briefely dye their ioyes, |
| 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, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.70 | For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, | For who would beare the Whips and Scornes of time, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.23 | scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the | Scorne her owne Image, and the verie Age and Bodie of the |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.ii.64 | Had his great name profaned with their scorns, | Had his great Name prophaned with their Scornes, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.119 | Charge me? I scorn you, scurvy companion. What, | Charge me? I scorne you (scuruie Companion) what? |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.292 | How! You fat fool, I scorn you. | How? you fat Foole, I scorne you. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.ii.37 | The which hath been with scorn shoved from the court, | The which hath been with scorne shou'd from the Court: |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.289 | That shall have cause to curse the Dauphin's scorn. | That shal haue cause to curse the Dolphins scorne. |
| Henry V | H5 II.i.28 | Now by this hand I swear I scorn the term; | now by this hand I sweare I scorne the terme: |
| Henry V | H5 II.iv.117 | Scorn and defiance, slight regard, contempt, | Scorne and defiance, sleight regard, contempt, |
| Henry V | H5 III.ii.37 | words are the best men; and therefore he scorns to say | Words are the best men, and therefore hee scornes to say |
| Henry V | H5 IV.ii.40 | And our air shakes them passing scornfully. | And our Ayre shakes them passing scornefully. |
| Henry V | H5 IV.vii.100 | your majesty takes no scorn to wear the leek upon Saint | your Maiesty takes no scorne to weare the Leeke vppon S. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iv.32 | Which I, disdaining, scorned, and craved death | Which I disdaining, scorn'd, and craued death, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iv.39 | With scoffs and scorns and contumelious taunts; | With scoffes and scornes, and contumelious taunts, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.v.15 | O'ertake me if thou canst; I scorn thy strength. | O're-take me if thou canst, I scorne thy strength. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iv.76 | I scorn thee and thy fashion, peevish boy. | I scorne thee and thy fashion, peeuish Boy. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iv.77 | Turn not thy scorns this way, Plantagenet. | Turne not thy scornes this way, Plantagenet. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iv.78 | Proud Pole, I will, and scorn both him and thee. | Prowd Poole, I will, and scorne both him and thee. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.iv.35 | And take foul scorn to fawn on him by sending. | And take foule scorne to fawne on him by sending. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.vi.49 | To be shame's scorn and subject of mischance! | To be Shames scorne, and subiect of Mischance. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.vii.18 | Thou antic Death, which laughest us here to scorn, | Thou antique Death, which laugh'st vs here to scorn, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.vii.39 | But with a proud majestical high scorn | But with a proud Maiesticall high scorne |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iii.96 | And our nobility will scorn the match. | And our Nobility will scorne the match. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iii.79 | And in her heart she scorns our poverty. | And in her heart she scornes our Pouertie: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.12 | The nobility think scorn to go in leather aprons. | The Nobilitie thinke scorne to goe in Leather Aprons. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.101 | Poor Clifford, how I scorn his worthless threats! | Poore Clifford, how I scorne his worthlesse Threats. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.38 | Scorning whate'er you can afflict me with. | Scorning what ere you can afflict me with. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.64 | And after many scorns, many foul taunts, | And after many scornes, many foule taunts, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.178 | Dare he presume to scorn us in this manner? | Dare he presume to scorne vs in this manner? |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.i.24 | Setting your scorns and your mislike aside, | Setting your skornes, and your mislike aside, |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.i.107 | A woman lost among ye, laughed at, scorned? | A woman lost among ye, laugh't at, scornd? |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.205 | As if he mocked himself, and scorned his spirit | As if he mock'd himselfe, and scorn'd his spirit |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.26 | Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees | Lookes in the Clouds, scorning the base degrees |
| King Edward III | E3 I.i.103 | A voluntary mischief hath less scorn | A voluntarie mischiefe hath lesse scorne, |
| King Edward III | E3 I.ii.7 | To be the scornful captive to a Scot, | To be the scornefull captiue to a Scot, |
| King Edward III | E3 I.ii.66 | And now that comfort makes her scorn at us. | And now that comfort makes her scorne at vs. |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.447 | Adds but the greater scorn unto the beast. | Adds but the greater scorne vnto the beast: |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.25 | For who in scorn refused our proffered peace | For who in scorne refused our poffered peace, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.61 | And, last of all, although I scorn to cope | And last of all, although I scorne to cope |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.163 | Then, Frenchmen, scorn that such should be your lords, | Then French men scorne that such should be your Lords |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.ii.33 | The lion scorns to touch the yielding prey, | The Lion scornes to touch the yeelding pray, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.vi.45 | And all the world will blurt and scorn at us. | and all the world wilt blurt and scorne at vs. |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.83 | But, Copland, thou didst scorn the King's command, | But Copland thou didst scorne the kings command |
| King John | KJ I.i.228 | Sir Robert's son. Why scornest thou at Sir Robert? | Sir Roberts sonne? why scorn'st thou at sir Robert? |
| King John | KJ I.i.243 | What means this scorn, thou most untoward knave? | What meanes this scorne, thou most vntoward knaue? |
| King John | KJ III.iv.42 | Which scorns a modern invocation. | Which scornes a moderne Inuocation. |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.161 | Into her scornful eyes! Infect her beauty, | Into her scornfull eyes: Infect her Beauty, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.296 | These oaths and laws will prove an idle scorn. | These oathes and lawes will proue an idle scorne. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.ii.62 | scorn to sigh: methinks I should outswear Cupid. | scorne to sigh, me thinkes I should out-sweare Cupid. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.145 | How will he scorn, how will he spend his wit! | How will he scorne? how will he spend his wit? |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.397 | Bruise me with scorn, confound me with a flout, | Bruise me with scorne, confound me with a flout. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.854 | Will hear your idle scorns, continue then, | Will heare your idle scornes; continue then, |
| Macbeth | Mac III.v.30 | He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear | He shall spurne Fate, scorne Death, and beare |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.i.78 | Be bloody, bold, and resolute; laugh to scorn | Be bloody, bold, & resolute: / Laugh to scorne |
| Macbeth | Mac V.v.3 | Will laugh a siege to scorn. Here let them lie | Will laugh a Siedge to scorne: Heere let them lye, |
| Macbeth | Mac V.vi.22 | But swords I smile at, weapons laugh to scorn, | But Swords I smile at, Weapons laugh to scorne, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ii.8 | Gobbo, do not run, scorn running with thy heels.’ Well, | Iobbe, doe not runne, scorne running with thy heeles; well, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.i.51 | my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, | my gaines, scorned my Nation, thwarted my bargaines, |
| 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; |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.130 | When at your hands did I deserve this scorn? | When at your hands did I deserue this scorne? |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.122 | Why should you think that I should woo in scorn? | Why should you think yt I should wooe in scorn? |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.123 | Scorn and derision never come in tears. | Scorne and derision neuer comes in teares: |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.126 | How can these things in me seem scorn to you, | How can these things in me, seeme scorne to you? |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.216 | To join with men in scorning your poor friend? | To ioyne with men in scorning your poore friend? |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.221 | I scorn you not; it seems that you scorn me. | I scorne you not; It seemes that you scorne me. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.222 | Have you not set Lysander, as in scorn, | Haue you not set Lysander, as in scorne |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.247.2 | Sweet, do not scorn her so. | Sweete, do not scorne her so. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.331 | In her behalf that scorns your services. | In her behalfe that scornes your seruices. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.136 | By moonshine did these lovers think no scorn | By moone-shine did these Louers thinke no scorne |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.12 | scorn by falling in love; and such a man is Claudio. I | scorne, by falling in loue, & such a man is Claudio, I |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.131 | scorn, write to him that I love him?’ | scorne, write to him that I loue him? |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.179 | her love, 'tis very possible he'll scorn it; for the man, | her loue, 'tis very possible hee'l scorne it, for the man |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.i.51 | Disdain and scorn ride sparkling in her eyes, | Disdaine and Scorne ride sparkling in her eyes, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.i.108 | Stand I condemned for pride and scorn so much? | Stand I condemn'd for pride and scorne so much? |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iv.44 | O illegitimate construction! I scorn that with | O illegitimate construction! I scorne that with |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.298 | hath slandered, scorned, dishonoured my kinswoman? | hath slandered, scorned, dishonoured my kinswoman? |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.ii.37 | ‘ lady ’ but ‘ baby ’ – an innocent rhyme; for ‘ scorn ’, | Ladie but babie, an innocent time: for scorne, |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.82 | And mark the fleers, the gibes, and notable scorns | And marke the Fleeres, the Gybes, and notable Scornes |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.53 | A fixed figure for the time of scorn | The fixed Figure for the time of Scorne, |
| Othello | Oth IV.iii.49 | Let nobody blame him; his scorn I approve – | Let no body blame him, his scorne I approue. |
| Pericles | Per I.i.57 | Scorning advice, read the conclusion then, | Scorning aduice; read the conclusion then: |
| Pericles | Per I.iv.30 | All poverty was scorned, and pride so great, | All pouertie was scor'nde, and pride so great, |
| Pericles | Per II.iv.12 | Scorn now their hand should give them burial. | Scorne now their hand should giue them buriall. |
| Pericles | Per V.i.166.2 | You scorn to believe me, | You scorne, beleeue me |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.9 | Scorns to unsay what once it hath delivered. | Scornes to vnsay, what it hath once deliuer'd. |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.164 | My manly eyes did scorn an humble tear; | My manly eyes did scorne an humble teare: |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.171 | She looks scornfully at him | She lookes scornfully at him. |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.171 | Teach not thy lips such scorn; for it was made | Teach not thy lip such Scorne; for it was made |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.108 | To be so baited, scorned, and stormed at; | To be so baited, scorn'd, and stormed at, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.175 | And with thy scorns drew'st rivers from his eyes, | And with thy scornes drew'st Riuers from his eyes, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.264 | And dallies with the wind and scorns the sun. | And dallies with the winde, and scornes the Sunne. |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.296 | What, dost thou scorn me for my gentle counsel? | What dost thou scorne me / For my gentle counsell? |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.31 | As 'twere in scorn of eyes, reflecting gems, | (As 'twere in scorne of eyes) reflecting Gemmes, |
| Richard III | R3 II.i.82 | You do him injury to scorn his corse. | You do him iniurie to scorne his Coarse. |
| Richard III | R3 III.i.133 | To mitigate the scorn he gives his uncle | To mittigate the scorne he giues his Vnckle, |
| Richard III | R3 III.i.153 | To taunt and scorn you thus opprobriously? | To taunt and scorne you thus opprobriously? |
| Richard III | R3 III.iv.83 | And did scorn it and disdain to fly. | And I did scorne it, and disdaine to flye: |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.102 | For she that scorned at me, now scorned of me; | For she that scorn'd at me, now scorn'd of me: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.112 | Who nothing hurt withal, hissed him in scorn. | Who nothing hurt withall, hist him in scorne. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.v.57 | To fleer and scorn at our solemnity? | To fleere and scorne at our Solemnitie? |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.v.63 | To scorn at our solemnity this night. | To scorne at our Solemnitie this night. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.i.118 | Which too untimely here did scorn the earth. | Which too vntimely here did scorne the earth. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.i.161 | And, with a martial scorn, with one hand beats | And with a Martiall scorne, with one hand beates |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.ii.18 | But one that scorn to live in this disguise | But one that scorne to liue in this disguise, |
| 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, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.37 | I scorn thy meat. 'Twould choke me, for I | I scorne thy meate, 'twould choake me: for I |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.6 | The greater scorns the lesser. Not nature, | The greater scornes the lesser. Not Nature |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.iv.76 | Scornedst our brains' flow and those our droplets which | Scornd'st our Braines flow, and those our droplets, which |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.268 | Thou com'st not to be made a scorn in Rome. | Thou com'st not to be made a scorne in Rome: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.236 | And here's thy hand in scorn to thee sent back. | And heeres thy hand in scorne to thee sent backe: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.99 | In that it scorns to bear another hue: | In that it scornes to beare another hue: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.i.39 | I have, as when the sun doth light a storm, | I haue (as when the Sunne doth light a-scorne) |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.i.113 | Let Paris bleed, 'tis but a scar to scorn; | Let Paris bleed, 'tis but a scar to scorne. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.233 | This Trojan scorns us, or the men of Troy | This Troyan scornes vs, or the men of Troy |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.371 | Than in the pride and salt scorn of his eyes | Then in the pride and salt scorne of his eyes |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.113 | But his evasion, winged thus swift with scorn, | But his euasion winged thus swift with scorne, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.64 | What, does the cuckold scorn me? | What, do's the Cuckold scorne me? |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.30 | O deadly gall, and theme of all our scorns, | Oh deadly gall, and theame of all our scornes, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.187 | And seen thee scorning forfeits and subduements, | And seene thee scorning forfeits and subduments, |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.168 | no scorn. I am very comptible, even to the least sinister | no scorne; I am very comptible, euen to the least sinister |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.i.142 | O, what a deal of scorn looks beautiful | O what a deale of scorne, lookes beautifull? |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.i.29 | To be in love, where scorn is bought with groans; | To be in loue; where scorne is bought with grones: |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.92 | But she did scorn a present that I sent her. | But she did scorne a present that I sent her, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.93 | A woman sometimes scorns what best contents her. | A woman somtime scorns what best cõtents her. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.95 | For scorn at first makes after-love the more. | For scorne at first, makes after-loue the more. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.i.68 | But if thou scorn our courtesy, thou diest. | But if thou scorne our curtesie, thou dyest. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.ii.20 | To Mars's so scorned altar? I do bleed | To Marsis so scornd Altar? I doe bleede |
| 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 III.vi.32 | Truly pertains – without upbraidings, scorns, | Truely pertaines (without obbraidings, scornes, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.115 | For my contempt; then all the world will scorn us, | For my contempt; Then all the world will scorne us, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.168 | For scorning thy edict, Duke, ask that lady | For scorning thy Edict Duke, aske that Lady |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.250 | Till I am nothing but the scorn of women; | Till I am nothing but the scorne of women; |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.88 | And make him, to the scorn of his hoarse throat, | And make him to the scorne of his hoarse throate |
| 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. |