| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.i.128 | A modest one to bear me back a again. | A modest one to beare me backe againe. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xv.27 | Your wife Octavia, with her modest eyes | Your Wife Octauia, with her modest eyes, |
| As You Like It | AYL I.ii.190 | modest working. | modest working. |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iv.73 | Quip Modest. If again ‘ it was not well cut,’ he disabled | quip modest. If againe, it was not well cut, he disabled |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iv.90 | the Quip Modest; the third, the Reply Churlish; the | the Quip-modest: the third, the reply Churlish: the |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.255 | Bemock the modest moon. | Bemocke the modest Moone. |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.ix.25 | Would seem but modest. Therefore, I beseech you – | Would seeme but modest: therefore I beseech you, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.ix.52.2 | Too modest are you, | Too modest are you: |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.274.1 | With modest warrant. | With modest warrant. |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.18 | Further to boast were neither true nor modest, | Further to boast, were neyther true, nor modest, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.v.104 | Appear more wise and modest to the world. | Appeare more wise, and modest to the world. |
| Henry V | H5 II.ii.134 | Garnished and decked in modest complement, | Garnish'd and deck'd in modest complement, |
| Henry V | H5 II.iv.34 | How modest in exception, and withal | How modest in exception; and withall, |
| Henry V | H5 III.i.4 | As modest stillness and humility: | As modest stillnesse, and humilitie: |
| Henry V | H5 IV.chorus.33 | Bids them good morrow with a modest smile, | Bids them good morrow with a modest Smyle, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.viii.21 | Or modest Dian circled with her nymphs, | Or modest Dyan, circled with her Nymphs, |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.i.82 | At length her grace rose, and with modest paces | At length, her Grace rose, and with modest paces |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.ii.135 | She is young, and of a noble modest nature; | She is yong, and of a Noble modest Nature, |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iii.69 | But reverence to your calling makes me modest. | But reuerence to your calling, makes me modest. |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.14 | If she did blush, 'twas tender modest shame, | If she did blush twas tender modest shame, |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.24 | Resolve me with all modest haste which way | Resolue me with all modest haste, which way |
| King Lear | KL IV.vii.5 | All my reports go with the modest truth, | All my reports go with the modest truth, |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.119 | Into his power, and modest wisdom plucks me | Into his power: and modest Wisedome pluckes me |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.78 | Their savage eyes turned to a modest gaze | Their sauage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.94 | tell you in your ear, she's as fartuous a civil modest | tell you in your eare, shee's as fartuous a ciuill modest |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.ii.121 | woman, the modest wife, the virtuous creature, that | woman, the modest wife, the vertuous creature, that |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.21 | could not show itself modest enough without a badge of | could not shew it selfe modest enough, without a badg of |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.155 | Is she not a modest young lady? | Is she not a modest yong Ladie? |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.67 | jig, and full as fantastical; the wedding, mannerly-modest, | ijgge (and full as fantasticall) the wedding manerly modest, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.347 | I will do any modest office, my lord, to help my | I will doe any modest office, my Lord, to helpe my |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.35 | Comes not that blood as modest evidence | Comes not that bloud, as modest euidence, |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.23 | An inviting eye, and yet methinks right modest. | An inuiting eye:/ And yet me thinkes right modest. |
| Pericles | Per IV.vi.34 | O, sir, I can be modest. | O Sir, I can be modest. |
| Pericles | Per V.i.121 | Modest as justice, and thou seemest a palace | modest as iustice, & thou seemest a Pallas |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.153 | If I achieve not this young modest girl. | If I atchieue not this yong modest gyrle: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.286 | For she's not froward, but modest as the dove. | For shee's not froward, but modest as the Doue, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.229 | Modest as morning when she coldly eyes | Modest as morning, when she coldly eyes |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.15 | Surety secure; but modest doubt is called | Surety secure: but modest Doubt is cal'd |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.iii.8 | modest limits of order. | modest limits of order. |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.173 | modest assurance if you be the lady of the house, that I | modest assurance, if you be the Ladie of the house, that I |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.ii.32 | modest terms, for I am one of those gentle ones that will | modest termes, for I am one of those gentle ones, that will |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.82.1 | You are modest, cousin. | You are modest Cosen. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.235 | Fit for my modest suit, and your free granting. | Fit for my modest suit, and your free granting: |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.157 | Go to't unsentenced. Therefore, most modest queen, | Goe too't unsentenc'd: Therefore most modest Queene, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK prologue.4 | Whose modest scenes blush on his marriage day, | (Whose modest Sceanes blush on his marriage day, |