| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.ii.52 | Did hear a challenge urged more modestly, | Did heare a Challenge vrg'd more modestly, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iii.179 | Words sweetly placed and modestly directed. | Words sweetly plac'd, and modestie directed, |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.69 | Will modestly discover to yourself | Will modestly discouer to your selfe |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.204 | I could wish he would modestly examine himself, to see | I could wish he would modestly examine himselfe, to see |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.222 | There they stand yet, and modestly I think | There they stand yet: and modestly I thinke, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.193 | How modestly she blows, and paints the sun | How modestly she blowes, and paints the Sun, |