| 1H4 I.iii.97 | [Hotspur to King Henry] on the gentle Severn's sedgy bank |
| 2H4 III.i.5 | [King Henry IV alone] O gentle sleep, / Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee |
| 2H6 III.ii.392 | [Suffolk to Queen] Here could I breathe my soul into the air, / As mild and gentle as the cradle-babe |
| AC V.i.75 | [Caesar to all] How calm and gentle I proceeded still / In all my writings |
| H5 II.chorus.39 | [Chorus to audience] charming the narrow seas / To give you gentle pass |
| H5 III.vii.50 | [Dauphin to Constable, of the latter's horse and mistress] O, then belike she was old and gentle |
| H8 V.i.71 | [Suffolk to King Henry, of the Queen] God safely quit her of her burden, and / With gentle travail, to the gladding of / Your highness with an heir! |
| H8 V.iii.22 | [Gardiner to all] for those that tame wild horses / Pace 'em not in their hands to make 'em gentle |
| KJ III.i.251 | [King Philip to Cardinal Pandulph] impose / Some gentle order |
| KJ V.ii.157 | [Bastard to all, of English ladies] change ... their gentle hearts / To fierce and bloody inclination |
| KJ V.ii.28 | [Salisbury to Lewis the Dauphin, of attacking England] [we] march / Upon her gentle bosom |
| MA V.iii.25 | [Don Pedro to all] the gentle day ... / Dapples the drowsy east with spots of grey |
| MND III.ii.287 | [Helena to Hermia] What, will you tear / Impatient answers from my gentle tongue? |
| MND IV.i.142 | [Theseus to Demetrius and Lysander] How comes this gentle concord in the world |
| MV I.i.32 | [Salerio to Antonio] dangerous rocks ... touching but my gentle vessel's side |
| Oth IV.iii.10 | [Emilia to Desdemona, of Othello] How goes it now? He looks gentler than he did [or: sense 6] |
| Per III.i.29 | [Pericles to th ebaby] Quiet and gentle thy conditions! |
| Per III.iii.37.1 | [Cleon to Pericles] Then give you up to the masked Neptune, and / The gentlest winds of heaven |
| R2 I.iii.133 | [King Richard to Mowbray and Bolingbroke] the sweet infant-breath of gentle sleep |
| R2 III.ii.12 | [King Richard to Aumerle, as if to the earth] Feed not thy sovereign's foe, my gentle earth |
| R3 IV.iv.161 | [Duchess of York to King Richard] I will be mild and gentle in my words [or: sense 2] |
| RJ III.i.156 | [Benvolio to Prince, of Romeo] With gentle breath, calm look |
| Sonn.48.11 | [] Within the gentle closure of my breast [or: loving] |
| TC I.iii.39 | [Nestor to all] let the ruffian Boreas once enrage / The gentle Thetis |
| TC IV.i.12 | [Aeneas to Diomedes] During all question of the gentle truce |
| Tem I.ii.469.1 | [Miranda to Prospero, of Ferdinand] He's gentle, and not fearful |
| TG V.iv.55 | [Proteus to Silvia] the gentle spirit of moving words |
| Ven.883 | [Venus, of the hunt] she knows it is no gentle chase |