| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.103 | What would you have? Your gentleness shall force, | What would you haue? / Your gentlenesse shall force, |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.104 | More than your force move us to gentleness. | more then your force / Moue vs to gentlenesse. |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.119 | Let gentleness my strong enforcement be, | Let gentlenesse my strong enforcement be, |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.125 | And therefore sit you down in gentleness | And therefore sit you downe in gentlenesse, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.137 | If thy rare qualities, sweet gentleness, | (If thy rare qualities, sweet gentlenesse, |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.33 | I have not from your eyes that gentleness | I haue not from your eyes, that gentlenesse |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.338 | This milky gentleness and course of yours, | This milky gentlenesse, and course of yours |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.730 | In the converse of breath. Your gentleness | In the conuerse of breath (your gentlenesse |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.25 | But touched with human gentleness and love, | But touch'd with humane gentlenesse and loue: |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.138 | I thought you lord of more true gentleness. | I thought you Lord of more true gentlenesse. |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.165 | Which since have steaded much. So, of his gentleness, | Which since haue steeded much, so of his gentlenesse |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.139 | The truth you speak doth lack some gentleness, | The truth you speake doth lacke some gentlenesse, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.240 | And will with deeds requite thy gentleness. | And will with Deeds requite thy gentlenesse: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.254 | gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality, and so forth | gentlenesse, vertue, youth, liberality, and so forth: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.i.21 | With his face backward. – In humane gentleness, | With his face backward, in humaine gentlenesse: |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.i.39 | The gentleness of all the gods go with thee! | The gentlenesse of all the gods go with thee: |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.110 | No way but gentleness, gently, gently. The fiend | No way but gentlenesse, gently, gently: the Fiend |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.i.48 | This gentleness of answer: 'tis your passion | This gentlenesse of answer; tis your passion |