| AW II.i.128 | [Helena to King] entreating from your royal thoughts / A modest one to bear me back again [i.e. a reassuring expression of mildness about her behaviour] |
| Cor I.ix.25 | [Cominius to Martius, of the latter's deeds] Which, to the spire and top of praises vouched, / Would seem but modest [i.e. even the highest praises would not seem adequate] |
| H8 V.iii.69 | [Cranmer to Gardiner] reverence to your calling makes me modest |
| KL II.iv.24 | [Lear to disguised Kent] Resolve me with all modest haste |
| MA I.i.21 | [Messenger to Leonato] joy could not show itself modest enough |
| TN I.iii.8 | [Maria to Sir Toby] you must confine yourself within the modest limits of order [or: sense 3] |
| TN I.v.173 | [Viola as Cesario to Olivia] give me modest assurance if you be the lady of the house |
| TS II.i.286 | [Petruchio to Baptista, of Katherina] she's not froward, but modest as the dove |