| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.319.2 | Speak softly, wake her not. | Speake softly, wake her not. |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.317 | as softly as foot can fall, he thinks himself too soon | as softly as foot can fall, he thinkes himselfe too soon |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.9 | Speak softly. Yonder, as I think, he walks. | Speake softly, yonder as I thinke he walkes. |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.ii.13 | Did softly press the rushes, ere he wakened | Did softly presse the Rushes, ere he waken'd |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.iv.8 | Go softly on. | Go safely on. Exit. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iv.132 | Into some other chamber. Softly, pray. | Into some other Chamber: softly 'pray. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.63 | Speak softly, or the loss of those great towns | Speake softly, or the losse of those great Townes |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.ii.82 | For fear we wake her. Softly, gentle Patience. | For feare we wake her. Softly, gentle Patience. |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.ii.42 | Speak your griefs softly; I do know you well. | Speake your greefes softly, I do know you well. |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.i.16 | Octavius, lead your battle softly on | Octauius, leade your Battaile softly on |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.255 | Bleat softly then. The butcher hears you cry. | Bleat softly then, the Butcher heares you cry. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.78 | So you walk softly, and look sweetly, and say | So you walke softly, and looke sweetly, and say |
| Pericles | Per IV.i.49 | Pray walk softly, do not heat your blood. | pray walke softly, doe not heate your bloud, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.ii.235 | Softly, my masters! If you be gentlemen, | Softly my Masters: If you be Gentlemen |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.i.1 | Softly and swiftly, sir, for the priest is ready. | Softly and swiftly sir, for the Priest is ready. |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.194 | Pray you, tread softly, that the blind mole may not | Pray you tread softly, that the blinde Mole may not |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.206 | Shall hoodwink this mischance. Therefore, speak softly. | Shall hudwinke this mischance: therefore speake softly, |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.118 | something in me. . . . Softly, ‘ M.O.A.I.’ . . . | something in me? Softly, M.O.A.I. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.30 | Dwelt by a churchyard – I will tell it softly: | Dwelt by a Church-yard: I will tell it softly, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iii.71 | O, good sir, softly, good sir! I fear, sir, my | Oh good sir, softly, good sir: I feare (sir) my |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iii.74 | Softly, dear sir; (he picks his pockets) good | Softly, deere sir: good |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iii.75 | sir, softly. You ha' done me a charitable office. | sir, softly: you ha done me a charitable office. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iii.110 | pace softly towards my kinsman's. | pace softly towards my Kinsmans. |