| 2H4 IV.v.88 | [Warwick to King Henry IV, of Prince Henry] tyranny ... / Would, by beholding him, have washed his knife / With gentle eye-drops |
| 2H6 II.iv.26 | [Gloucester to Duchess] Be patient, gentle Nell |
| 2H6 III.iii.20 | [King to God, of the Cardinal] Look with a gentle eye upon this wretch |
| 3H6 II.iii.6 | [Edward to Warwick] Smile, gentle heaven, or strike, ungentle death! |
| 3H6 II.vi.21 | [Clifford alone] For what doth cherish weeds but gentle air? |
| AC V.ii.310 | [Cleopatra to Charmian, of the asp's bite] As sweet as balm, as soft as air, as gentle - |
| AC V.ii.58 | [Cleopatra to Proculeius] Rather a ditch in Egypt / Be gentle grave unto me! |
| Cor I.vi.63 | [Cominius to Martius] I could wish / You were conducted to a gentle bath / And balms applied to you |
| E3 II.i.287 | [King Edward alone] Religion is austere, and beauty gentle |
| H5 IV.i.161 | [King Henry to all, of some men] that have before gored the gentle bosom of peace with pillage and robbery [or: sense 4] |
| H5 V.ii.101 | [King Henry to Katherine] teach a soldier terms / Such as will enter at a lady's ear / And plead his love-suit to her gentle heart? |
| H5 V.ii.65 | [Burgundy to King Henry, of the problems affecting France] my speech entreats / That I may know the let why gentle peace / Should not expel these inconveniences [or: sense 4] |
| H8 II.iii.54 | [Lord Chamberlain to Anne, of pitying the Queen] It was a gentle business, and becoming / The action of good women |
| H8 II.iii.57 | [Lord Chamberlain to Anne] You bear a gentle mind [or: sense 1] |
| H8 III.ii.445 | [Wolsey to Cromwell] Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace / To silence envious tongues |
| H8 IV.ii.122 | [Katherine to Capuchius, of his comfort] That gentle physic, given in time, had cured me |
| H8 IV.ii.82 | [Griffith to Patience, of Queen Katherine] Softly, gentle Patience |
| KJ III.i.247 | [King Philip to Cardinal Pandulph] make a riot on the gentle brow / Of true sincerity [or: sense 4] |
| KJ IV.i.87 | [Arthur to Hubert, of the Executioner] He hath a stern look, but a gentle heart |
| KJ IV.iii.150 | [Bastard to Hubert] the bare-picked bone of majesty ... snarleth in the gentle eyes of peace [or: sense 4] |
| KJ V.i.19 | [Cardinal Pandulph to King John] you are a gentle convertite |
| KL V.iii.271 | [Lear to all, of Cordelia] Her voice was ever soft, / Gentle and low |
| LLL V.ii.373 | [Berowne to Rosaline] My gentle sweet, / Your wit makes wise things foolish |
| LLL V.ii.815 | [Dumaine to Katharine] O, shall I say ‘I thank you, gentle wife’? |
| Luc.1237 | [of women] Their gentle sex to weep are often willing |
| MA II.i.346 | [Don Pedro to Hero, of helping them] And you too, gentle Hero? |
| Mac IV.iii.230 | [Macduff to Malcolm] gentle heavens, / Cut short all intermission |
| MND I.i.161 | [Lysander to Hermia, of where his aunt lives] There, gentle Hermia, may I marry thee |
| MND II.ii.62 | [Hermia to Lysander] gentle friend, for love and courtesy / Lie further off |
| MND III.i.130 | [Titania to Bottom] I pray thee, gentle mortal, sing again! |
| MND III.ii.245 | [Lysander to Helena] Stay, gentle Helena, hear my excuse |
| MND III.ii.452 | [Puck to sleeping Hermia] Gentle lover, remedy |
| MND IV.i.4 | [Titania to Bottom] I ... kiss thy fair large ears, my gentle joy |
| MND V.i.215 | [Snug as Lion to the ladies] you whose gentle hearts do fear / The smallest monstrous mouse that creeps on floor |
| MND V.i.87 | [Theseus to Hippolyta] Why, gentle sweet |
| MV II.iv.19 | [Lorenzo to Launcelot] Tell gentle Jessica / I will not fail her |
| MV II.iv.34 | [Lorenzo to Gratiano] If e'er the Jew her father come to heaven, / It will be for his gentle daughter's sake |
| MV III.ii.163 | [Portia to Bassanio, of herself] her gentle spirit / Commits itself to yours to be directed |
| MV III.ii.252 | [Bassanio to Portia] Gentle lady, / When I did first impart my love to you |
| MV IV.i.182 | [Portia as Balthasar to Shylock] The quality of mercy is not strained, / It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven |
| Oth I.ii.25 | [Othello to Iago] I love the gentle Desdemona |
| Oth II.iii.244 | [Othello to Cassio] Look, if my gentle love be not raised up |
| Oth IV.i.192 | [Othello to Iago, of Desdemona] And then of so gentle a condition! |
| Oth IV.ii.111 | [Desdemona to Iago] those that do teach young babes / Do it with gentle means and easy tasks |
| Per III.i.11 | [Pericles to Lucina] Divinest patroness and midwife gentle / To those that cry by night |
| Per III.iii.12 | [Pericles to Cleon and Dionyza] My gentle babe Marina |
| Per IV.i.87 | [Marina to Leonine] You have a gentle heart |
| R2 II.i.174 | [York to King Richard, of Richard's father] In peace was never gentle lamb more mild / Than was that young and princely gentleman |
| R2 V.ii.31 | [York to Duchess of York, of Richard] dust was thrown upon his sacred head, / Which with such gentle sorrow he shook off [or: sense 1, 2] |
| R3 I.ii.104 | [Anne to Richard, of Henry VI] O, he was gentle, mild, and virtuous! [or: sense 4] |
| R3 II.iv.50 | [Queen Elizabeth to all] The tiger now hath seized the gentle hind |
| R3 III.i.185 | [Richard to Catesby, of Hastings] bid my lord ... / Give Mistress Shore one gentle kiss the more |
| R3 III.vii.210 | [Buckingham to Richard] well we know your tenderness of heart / And gentle, kind, effeminate remorse |
| R3 IV.i.10 | [Anne to Queen Elizabeth] To gratulate the gentle princes |
| R3 IV.iii.9 | [Tyrrel alone, reporting Dighton] thus ... lay the gentle babes |
| R3 IV.iv.11 | [Queen Elizabeth to Duchess of York, as if to the princes] If yet your gentle souls fly in the air |
| R3 IV.iv.50 | [Queen Margaret to Duchess of York, of Richard] To worry lambs and lap their gentle blood |
| RJ I.i.169 | [Benvolio to Romeo] Alas that love, so gentle in his view, / Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof! |
| RJ I.v.94 | [Romeo to Juliet, of kissing her] If I profane with my unworthiest hand / This holy shrine, the gentle sin is this |
| RJ III.ii.20 | [Juliet alone] Come, gentle night |
| Sonn.10.10 | [] Shall hate be fairer lodged than gentle love? |
| Sonn.151.3 | [] Then, gentle cheater, urge not my amiss |
| Sonn.20.3 | [] A woman's gentle heart |
| Sonn.40.9 | [] I do forgive thy robb'ry, gentle thief |
| Sonn.41.5 | [] Gentle thou art, and therefore to be won |
| Sonn.48.11 | [] Within the gentle closure of my breast |
| Tem III.i.8 | [Ferdinand alone, of Miranda] she is / Ten times more gentle than her father's crabbed |
| TG II.vii.29 | [Julia to Lucetta, of a stream] Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge |
| TG V.iv.12 | [Valentine alone, as if to Silvia] Thou gentle nymph, cherish thy forlorn swain |
| Tit II.iv.16 | [Marcus to Lavinia] Speak, gentle niece |
| Tit III.i.120 | [Titus to Lavinia] Gentle Lavinia, let me kiss thy lips |
| Tit III.ii.34 | [Titus to Lavinia] Come, let's fall to, and, gentle girl, eat this |
| TN III.i.102 | [Viola as Cesario to Olivia, of Orsino] Madam, I come to whet your gentle thoughts / On his behalf |
| TNK II.ii.15 | [Arcite alone, of Emilia] And if she be as gentle as she's fair |
| TS I.i.60 | [Hortensio to Katherina] No mates for you / Unless you were of gentler, milder mould [or: sense 2] |
| Ven.653 | [of jealousy] Distempering gentle Love in his desire |
| Ven.801 | [] Love's gentle spring doth always fresh remain |
| Ven.853 | [] the gentle lark, weary of rest |