| AC V.ii.167 | [Cleopatra to Caesar] things of such dignity / As we greet modern friends withal |
| AW II.iii.2 | [Lafew to Bertram and Parolles] we have our philosophical persons to make modern and familiar, things supernatural and causeless |
| AW V.iii.216 | [Bertram to King, of Diana] Her infinite cunning with her modern grace / Subdued me to her rate |
| AYL II.vii.157 | [Jaques to all] the justice ... / Full of wise saws and modern instances |
| AYL IV.i.7 | [Rosalind as Ganymede to Jaques, of those who display too much melancholy or laughter] [they] betray themselves to every modern censure |
| KJ III.iv.42 | [Constance to King Philip] that fell anatomy ... / Which scorns a modern invocation |
| Mac IV.iii.170 | [Ross to Macduff and Malcolm, of Scotland] where violent sorrow seems / A modern ecstasy |
| Oth I.iii.109 | [Duke to Brabantio, of the arguments against Othello] these thin habits and poor likelihoods / Of modern seeming |
| RJ III.ii.120 | [Juliet to herself, of her parents' death] Which modern lamentation might have moved |
| Sonn.83.7 | []How far a modern quill doth come too short, / Speaking of worth |