| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.5 | past endeavours, for then we wound our modesty, and | past endeuours, for then we wound our Modestie, and |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.v.27 | known but the modesty which is so lost. | knowne, but the modestie which is so lost. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.246 | If beauty, wisdom, modesty, can settle | If Beauty, Wisedome, Modesty, can settle |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.v.72.1 | Thy modesty can beg. | Thy modestie can begge. |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.144 | Sad Lucretia's modesty. | sad Lucrecia's Modestie. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.i.90 | Her sober virtue, years, and modesty, | Her sober vertue, yeares, and modestie, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.59 | As roughly as my modesty would let me. | As roughly as my modestie would let me. |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.154 | Though peril to my modesty, not death on't, | Though perill to my modestie, not death on't |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.439 | with as much modesty as cunning. I remember one said | with as much modestie, as cunning. I remember one said, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.19 | you o'erstep not the modesty of nature. For anything so | you ore-stop not the modestie of Nature; for any thing so |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.42 | That blurs the grace and blush of modesty; | That blurres the grace and blush of Modestie, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.204 | with modesty enough, and likelihood to lead it; as thus: | with modestie enough, & likeliehood to lead it; as thus. |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.73 | the forms of it, and the sobriety of it, and the modesty | the Formes of it, and the Sobrietie of it, and the Modestie |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.292 | crimson of modesty, if she deny the appearance of a | Crimson of Modestie, if shee deny the apparance of a |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.ii.39 | With modesty admiring thy renown, | With modestie admiring thy Renowne, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.84 | Her looks doth argue her replete with modesty; | Her Looks doth argue her replete with Modesty, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.ii.135 | Deliver this with modesty to th' Queen. | Deliuer this with modesty to th'Queene. |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.ii.74 | With thy religious truth and modesty, | With thy Religious Truth, and Modestie, |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iii.64 | Win straying souls with modesty again; | Win straying Soules with modesty againe, |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.213 | Then, in a friend, it is cold modesty. | Then, in a Friend, it is cold Modestie. |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.169 | That modesty may more betray our sense | That Modesty may more betray our Sence |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.241 | of my modesty, but my brother-justice have I found so | of my modestie, but my brother-Iustice haue I found so |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ii.173 | To allay with some cold drops of modesty | To allay with some cold drops of modestie |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.205 | With any terms of zeal, wanted the modesty | With any termes of Zeale: wanted the modestie |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.i.54 | praised women's modesty; and gave such orderly and | praise womens modesty: and gaue such orderly and |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.ii.37 | pluck the borrowed veil of modesty from the | plucke the borrowed vaile of modestie from the |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.60 | Nor how it may concern my modesty | Nor how it may concerne my modestie |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.214 | You do impeach your modesty too much, | You doe impeach your modesty too much, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.63 | Lie further off, in human modesty: | Lie further off, in humane modesty, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.285 | Have you no modesty, no maiden shame, | Haue you no modesty, no maiden shame, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.101 | And in the modesty of fearful duty | And in the modesty of fearefull duty, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.40 | Her blush is guiltiness, not modesty. | Her blush is guiltinesse, not modestie. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.177 | Than that which maiden modesty doth warrant, | Then that which maiden modestie doth warrant, |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.74 | That would to cinders burn up modesty, | That would to Cynders burne vp Modestie, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.ii.16 | Think true love acted simple modesty. | Thinke true Loue acted simple modestie: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.iii.38 | Who, even in pure and vestal modesty, | Who euen in pure and vestall modestie |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.ii.27 | Not step o'er the bounds of modesty. | Not stepping ore the bounds of modestie. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.1.66 | If it be husbanded with modesty. | If it be husbanded with modestie. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.ii.252 | As is the other for beauteous modesty. | As is the other, for beauteous modestie. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.49 | Her affability and bashful modesty, | Her affability and bashfull modestie: |
| The Tempest | Tem III.i.53 | I am skilless of; but by my modesty, | I am skillesse of; but by my modestie |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.91 | to myself than you can with modesty speak in your own | to my selfe, then you can with modestie speake in your owne |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.i.11 | of modesty, that you will not extort from me what I am | of modestie, that you will not extort from me, what I am |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.333 | And tell me in the modesty of honour, | And tell me in the modestie of honor, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.ii.41 | Now, by my modesty, a goodly broker! | Now (by my modesty) a goodly Broker: |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.ii.55 | Since maids, in modesty, say no to that | Since Maides, in modesty, say no, to that, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.i.156 | For often have you writ to her; and she, in modesty, | For often haue you writ to her: and she in modesty, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.iv.109 | It is the lesser blot, modesty finds, | It is the lesser blot modesty findes, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.198 | Sometimes her modesty will blow so far | Sometimes her modesty will blow so far |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK prologue.7 | Yet still is modesty, and still retains | Yet still is Modestie, and still retaines |