Baseness: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations
Base and unlustrous as the smoky light That's fed with stinking tallow.— Cym. i. 7
You shall mark Many a duteous and knee-crooking knave, That, doting on his own obsequious bondage, Wears out his time, much like his master's ass, For nought but provender, and, when he's old, cashier'd; Whip me such honest knaves.— 0. i. 1
Some kinds of baseness Are nobly undergone; and most poor matters Point to rich ends.— T. iii. 1.