| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.20 | May it be gently heard. When we debate | May it be gently heard. When we debate |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.293 | If thou and nature can so gently part, | If thou, and Nature can so gently part, |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.107 | Speak you so gently? Pardon me, I pray you. | Speake you so gently? Pardon me I pray you, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.5 | your hand, thus. But use all gently. For in the very torrent, | your hand thus, but vse all gently; for in the verie Torrent, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.ii.36 | I told him gently of our grievances, | I told him gently of our greeuances, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.95 | i'faith. You may stroke him as gently as a puppy greyhound. | you may stroake him as gently, as a Puppie Grey-hound: |
| Henry V | H5 I.chorus.34 | Gently to hear, kindly to judge, our play. | Gently to heare, kindly to iudge our Play. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iii.49 | And lay them gently on thy tender side. | And lay them gently on thy tender side. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.122 | Who looked full gently on his warlike Queen, | Who look'd full gently on his warlike Queene, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.131 | Fell gently down, as if they struck their friends. | Fell gently downe, as if they strucke their Friends. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.vi.45 | If friend or foe, let him be gently used. | If Friend or Foe, let him be gently vsed. |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.ii.31 | So may he rest; his faults lie gently on him! | So may he rest, / His Faults lye gently on him: |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.ii.31 | March gently on to meet him. | March gently on to meete him. |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.29 | How gently had we thought to touch thy breast | How gently had we thought to touch thy brest, |
| King John | KJ V.ii.76 | It may lie gently at the foot of peace | It may lie gently at the foot of peace, |
| Macbeth | Mac V.vi.34 | This way, my lord. The castle's gently rendered. | This way my Lord, the Castles gently rendred: |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.2 | When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees | When the sweet winde did gently kisse the trees, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.ii.77 | that I will roar you as gently as any sucking dove. I will | that I will roare you as gently as any sucking Doue; I will |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.42 | Gently entwist; the female ivy so | Gently entwist; the female Iuy so |
| Pericles | Per III.i.5 | Thy deafening, dreadful thunders, gently quench | Thy deafning dreadfull thunders, gently quench |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.79 | Which gently laid my knighthood on my shoulder, | Which gently laid my Knight-hood on my shoulder, |
| Richard II | R2 II.ii.71 | Who gently would dissolve the bands of life | Who gently would dissolue the bands of life, |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.119 | Must gently be preserved, cherished, and kept. | Must gently be preseru'd, cherisht, and kept: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.1.44 | Carry him gently to my fairest chamber, | Carrie him gently to my fairest Chamber, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.1.70 | Take him up gently and to bed with him, | Take him vp gently, and to bed with him, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.298.1 | And do my spriting gently. | And doe my spryting, gently. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.200 | Well, would I were gently put out of office | Well, would I were / Gently put out of Office, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.137 | And bring our emperor gently in thy hand, | And bring our Emperour gently in thy hand, |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.95 | Go to, go to! Peace, peace, we must deal gently | Go too, go too: peace, peace, wee must deale gently |
| 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 II.i.192 | For when the west wind courts her gently, | For when the west wind courts her gently |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.i.36 | That ever gently looked, the voidest of honour | That ever gently lookd the voydes of honour. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.128 | Gently they swell, like women new-conceived, | Gently they swell, like women new conceav'd, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iii.41 | Arcite is gently visaged, yet his eye | Arcite is gently visagd; yet his eye |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.791 | gently considered, I'll bring you where he is aboard, | gently consider'd, Ile bring you where he is aboord, |