| 1H4 II.iii.109 | [Hotspur to Lady Percy] This evening must I leave you, gentle Kate |
| 1H6 II.ii.47 | [Burgundy to Talbot, of the Countess's invitation] You may not, my lord, despise her gentle suit |
| 1H6 V.iv.20 | [Shepherd to Pucelle] Deny me not, I prithee, gentle Joan |
| 2H6 III.ii.88 | [Queen to King] I ... cursed the gentle gusts |
| 2H6 IV.ii.164 | [Stafford's Brother to Stafford, of the rebels] seeing gentle words will not prevail, / Assail them with the army of the King |
| 3H6 II.ii.11 | [Clifford to King] To whom do lions cast their gentle looks? |
| 3H6 V.i.22 | [Edward to Warwick] Speak gentle words, and humbly bend thy knee |
| AC II.ii.3.1 | [Lepidus to Enobarbus] entreat your captain / To soft and gentle speech |
| AC IV.v.14 | [Antony to Eros, of Enobarbus] Write to him ... gentle adieus and greetings |
| AC IV.xiv.21 | [Antony to Eros] weep not, gentle Eros |
| AC V.ii.127 | [Caesar to Cleopatra] our intents, / Which towards you are most gentle |
| AC V.ii.68 | [Proculeius to Dolabella, of Cleopatra] Be gentle to her |
| AW III.v.96 | [Helena to Widow] Please it this matron and this gentle maid / To eat with us tonight |
| AW V.i.4 | [Helena to Diana and Widow] you have made the days and nights as one / To wear your gentle limbs in my affairs |
| AW V.iii.337 | [King to audience] Your gentle hands lend us and take our hearts |
| AYL I.i.155 | [Oliver alone, of Orlando] Yet he's gentle, never schooled and yet learned [or: sense 1] |
| AYL I.ii.174 | [Orlando to Rosalind and Celia] let your fair eyes and gentle wishes go with me to my trial |
| AYL II.iii.6 | [Adam to Orlando] wherefore are you gentle, strong, and valiant? |
| AYL II.iv.67 | [Corin to Rosalind as Ganymede] And to you, gentle sir, and to you all. |
| AYL III.v.85 | [Phebe to Silvius] I am sorry for thee, gentle Silvius |
| AYL IV.iii.8 | [Silvius to Rosalind as Ganymede, of a letter] My gentle Phebe bid me give you this |
| AYL V.i.16 | [Touchstone to William] Good even, gentle friend |
| AYL V.i.2 | [Touchstone to Audrey] Patience, gentle Audrey |
| CE III.ii.168 | [Antipholus of Syracuse alone, of Luciana] Possessed with such a gentle sovereign grace |
| CE III.ii.25 | [Luciana to Antipholus of Syracuse] Then, gentle brother, get you in again |
| CE IV.iv.151 | [Dromio of Syracuse to Antipholus of Syracuse, of the Ephesians] Methinks they are such a gentle nation |
| CE IV.iv.95 | [Adriana to Antipholus of Ephesus] I did not, gentle husband, lock thee forth |
| CE V.i.371.1 | [Antipholus of Syracuse to Adriana] gentle mistress |
| Cor II.iii.96 | [Coriolanus to Citizens, of flattering the people] 'Tis a condition they account gentle; |
| Cor III.i.55 | [Sicinius to Coriolanus] you must inquire your way ... with a gentler spirit |
| Cor III.ii.59 | [Volumnia to Coriolanus, of speaking humbly to the citizens] this no more dishonours you at all / Than to take in a town with gentle words |
| E3 III.iii.146 | [King John to all] He that you fight for, rules in clemency, / And reins you with a mild and gentle bit |
| H5 III.vi.110 | [King Henry to Fluellen] when lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner |
| H8 II.iv.87 | [Wolsey to and of Queen Katherine] Of disposition gentle and of wisdom / O'ertopping woman's power [or: sense 1] |
| H8 III.i.165 | [Wolsey to Queen Katherine] I know you have a gentle, noble temper |
| H8 prologue.17 | [Prologue to audience] gentle hearers |
| Ham I.ii.123 | [Claudius to Gertrude] This gentle and unforced accord of Hamlet / Sits smiling to my heart |
| Ham V.ii.200 | [Lord to Hamlet] to use some gentle entertainment to Laertes |
| JC I.ii.228 | [Casca to Brutus and Cassius, of Caesar being offered the crown] he put it by thrice, every time gentler than other |
| JC II.i.279 | [Portia to Brutus, of her kneeling] I should not need, if you were gentle Brutus [pun: 278, sense 1] |
| JC III.i.255 | [Antony to dead Caesar] pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, / That I am meek and gentle with these butchers |
| JC III.ii.141 | [Antony to the plebeians] Have patience, gentle friends |
| JC III.ii.73.1 | [Antony to the plebeians] You gentle Romans [or: sense 1] |
| JC IV.iii.267 | [Brutus to sleeping Lucius] Gentle knave, good night |
| KJ II.i.205 | [King Philip to King John] Our trumpet called you to this gentle parle |
| KJ III.iii.19 | [King John to Hubert] O my gentle Hubert |
| KJ IV.iii.13 | [Salisbury to Pembroke and Bigot, of Cardinal Pandulph's letter] we must embrace / This gentle offer of the perilous time |
| KL IV.vi.259 | [disguised Edgar to Oswald's letter] Leave, gentle wax [i.e. by your leave] |
| LC.177 | [] Gentle maid, / Have of my suffering youth some feeling pity [or: sense 6] |
| LLL V.ii.179 | [Berowne to Boyet, of the reason for visiting the Princess] Nothing but peace and gentle visitation |
| LLL V.ii.626 | [Holofernes to Berowne, of their insults] This is not generous, not gentle, not humble |
| Luc.1273 | [Lucrece to her maid] If thou dost weep for grief of my sustaining, / Know, gentle wench, it small avails my mood |
| Luc.545 | [] the rough beast that knows no gentle right |
| MM I.iv.24 | [Lucio to Isabella] Gentle and fair, your brother kindly greets you |
| MM I.iv.7 | [Francisca to Isabella] Gentle Isabella |
| MM IV.i.70 | [disguised Duke to Mariana] Nor, gentle daughter, fear you not at all |
| MM IV.ii.69.1 | [Provost alone, of knocking] I hope it is some pardon or reprieve / For the most gentle Claudio |
| MM IV.ii.83 | [disguised Duke alone] This is a gentle provost |
| MM V.i.354 | [Duke to Provost] let me bail these gentle three |
| MND II.i.148 | [Oberon to Puck] My gentle Puck, come hither |
| MND III.ii.418 | [Lysander alone, as if to daylight] Come, thou gentle day, |
| MND V.i.223 | [Theseus to all, of Snug as Lion] A very gentle beast, of a good conscience |
| MV I.iii.174.2 | [Antonio to Shylock] Hie thee, gentle Jew |
| MV II.vii.78 | [Portia to Nerissa, of Morocco] A gentle riddance. |
| MV III.ii.139 | [Bassanio to himself, of the scroll] A gentle scroll. |
| MV IV.i.34 | [Duke to Shylock] We all expect a gentle answer, Jew |
| MV V.i.260 | [Nerissa to Gratiano] And pardon me, my gentle Gratiano [or: sense 6] |
| MW I.i.280 | [Page to Slender] Come, gentle Master Slender, come |
| MW I.iv.135 | [Mistress Quickly to Fenton, of Anne] she is pretty, and honest, and gentle |
| MW III.iv.18.2 | [Anne to Fenton] Gentle Master Fenton |
| MW III.iv.92 | [Fenton to Mistress Page] Farewell, gentle mistress |
| Oth V.i.93 | [Iago to Gratiano] I cry you gentle pardon |
| Per III.i.74 | [Pericles to Second Sailor] gentle mariner |
| Per III.ii.106 | [Cerimon to Gentlemen] Hush, my gentle neighbours |
| PP.4.12 | [of Adonis and Cytherea] The tender nibbler would not touch the bait, / But smile and jest at every gentle offer |
| R2 I.iii.95 | [Mowbray to King Richard] As gentle and as jocund as to jest / Go I to fight |
| R2 III.iii.126 | [King Richard to Northumberland, of Bolingbroke] Speak to his gentle hearing kind commends |
| R2 III.iii.131 | [Aumerle to King Richard] Let's fight with gentle words / Till time lend friends [or: sense 4] |
| R2 V.v.81 | [Richard to Groom, of Bolingbroke riding Barbary] Tell me, gentle friend, / How went he under him? |
| R3 I.iii.296 | [Queen Margaret to Buckingham] What, dost thou scorn me for my gentle counsel? |
| R3 II.ii.27 | [Duchess of York to Boy, of Richard] Ah, that deceit should steal such gentle shape |
| R3 III.i.169 | [Buckingham to Catesby] go, gentle Catesby |
| R3 III.iv.20 | [Hastings to all] in the Duke's behalf I'll give my voice, / Which, I presume, he'll take in gentle part |
| R3 III.iv.20 | [Hastings to all, of Richard] in the Duke's behalf I'll give my voice, / Which, I presume, he'll take in gentle part |
| R3 III.vii.246 | [Richard to the citizens] farewell, gentle friends |
| R3 III.vii.38 | [Buckingham to Richard, of what was said to the citizens] Thanks, gentle citizens and friends |
| R3 IV.iii.28.2 | [King Richard to Tyrrel, of the children] And buried, gentle Tyrrel? |
| RJ I.v.65 | [Capulet to Tybalt] Content thee, gentle coz |
| RJ II.ii.93 | [Juliet to Romeo] O gentle Romeo |
| RJ III.i.82 | [Romeo to Mercutio] Gentle Mercutio, put thy rapier up |
| RJ III.iii.10 | [Friar Laurence to Romeo, of the Prince] A gentler judgement vanished from his lips |
| RJ IV.iii.1 | [Juliet to Nurse] gentle Nurse |
| RJ V.iii.59 | [Romeo to Paris] Good gentle youth, tempt not a desperate man |
| Sonn.145.7 | [of love] Chiding that tongue that ever sweet / Was used in giving gentle doom [i.e. merciful judgement] |
| TC III.ii.12 | [Troilus to Pandarus] O gentle Pandar |
| TC IV.i.33 | [Paris to Diomedes] This is the most despiteful'st gentle greeting ... that e'er I heard of |
| Tem epilogue.11 | [Prospero alone, to audience] Gentle breath of yours my sails / Must fill |
| Tem III.iii.19.3 | [stage direction] Enter several strange shapes, bringing in a banquet; and dance about it with gentle actions of salutations |
| Tem III.iii.33 | [Gonzalo to all, of the spirits] Their manners are more gentle, kind, than of / Our human generation you shall find / Many |
| TG II.i.102 | [Silvia to Valentine] I thank you, gentle servant |
| TG II.ii.1 | [Proteus to Julia] Have patience, gentle Julia |
| TG II.iv.134 | [Valentine to Proteus] O gentle Proteus, Love's a mighty lord |
| TG II.vii.1 | [Julia to Lucetta] Counsel, Lucetta; gentle girl, assist me |
| TG II.vii.42 | [Julia to Lucetta] Gentle Lucetta |
| TG III.i.31 | [Duke to Proteus, of Valentine] I gave him gentle looks |
| TG IV.iv.170 | [Silvia to disguised Julia,of Julia] She is beholding to thee, gentle youth |
| Tim I.i.183 | [Apemantus to Timon, of being called ‘gentle’ in sense 1] Till I be gentle, stay thou for thy good morrow |
| Tit II.iii.168 | [Lavinia to Tamora] be called a gentle queen [or: sense 1, 6] |
| Tit III.i.157 | [Titus to Aaron] O gentle Aaron! |
| Tit III.i.23 | [Titus to himself, as if to the tribunes] O reverend tribunes, O gentle aged men |
| Tit III.i.81 | [Lucius to Lavinia] Speak, gentle sister: who hath martyred thee? [or: sense 1] |
| Tit IV.ii.55 | [Nurse to Aaron] O, gentle Aaron, we are all undone |
| TN IV.i.50.2 | [Olivia to Sebastian] gentle friend |
| TNK II.iii.24 | [Gaoler's Daughter alone, quoting Palamon addressing her] Fair, gentle maid |
| TNK V.ii.41 | [Gaoler's Daughter to Gaoler, of Wooer as Palamon] I thank him for his gentle patience |
| TNK V.iv.24 | [Palamon to Gaoler] Your gentle daughter gave me freedom once |
| TS induction.1.64 | [Lord to Huntsmen, of reacting to transformed Sly] do it kindly, gentle sirs |
| Ven.1001 | [Venus as if to death] Then, gentle shadow ... / I railed on thee |
| Ven.403 | [Venus to Adonis] Let me excuse thy courser, gentle boy [or: sense 1, 6] |
| WT II.ii.11 | [Paulina to Gaoler] Here's ado / To lock up honesty and honour from / Th'access of gentle visitors! |
| WT IV.i.20 | [Time to audience] imagine me, / Gentle spectators, that I now may be / In fair Bohemia [or: discriminating] |
| WT IV.iv.85.2 | [Polixenes to Perdita] gentle maiden |
| WT V.ii.148 | [Shepherd to Clown] we must be gentle, now we are gentlemen |