| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.iv.18 | Ah, what sharp stings are in her mildest words! | Ah what sharpe stings are in her mildest words? |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.54 | Would they work in mild aspect? | Would they worke in milde aspect? |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.87 | She never reprehended him but mildly, | She neuer reprehended him but mildely, |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.ii.14 | Why did you wish me milder? Would you have me | Why did you wish me milder? Would you haue me |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.ii.139 | To answer mildly; for they are prepared | To answer mildely: for they are prepar'd |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.ii.142 | The word is ‘ mildly ’. Pray you let us go. | The word is, Mildely. Pray you let vs go, |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.ii.144.2 | Ay, but mildly. | I, but mildely. |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.ii.145 | Well, mildly be it then – mildly! | Well mildely be it then, Mildely. |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.22 | Smiled at their lack of skill, but found their courage | Smil'd at their lacke of skill, but found their courage |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.65 | Here is your husband; like a mildewed ear, | Heere is your Husband, like a Mildew'd eare |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.40 | Took it in snuff. And still he smiled and talked. | Tooke it in Snuffe. And still he smil'd and talk'd: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.131 | Who knows on whom fortune would then have smiled? | Who knowes, on whom Fortune would then haue smil'd? |
| Henry V | H5 II.iv.59 | Saw his heroical seed, and smiled to see him, | Saw his Heroicall Seed, and smil'd to see him |
| Henry V | H5 IV.vi.21 | He smiled me in the face, raught me his hand, | He smil'd me in the face, raught me his hand, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.iv.48 | But be thou mild and blush not at my shame, | But be thou milde, and blush not at my shame, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.9 | We know the time since he was mild and affable, | We know the time since he was milde and affable, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.72 | The Duke is virtuous, mild, and too well given | The Duke is vertuous, milde, and too well giuen, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.219 | And that my sovereign's presence makes me mild, | And that my Soueraignes presence makes me milde, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.392 | As mild and gentle as the cradle-babe | As milde and gentle as the Cradle-babe, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.i.76 | And thou that smiled'st at good Duke Humphrey's death | And thou that smil'dst at good Duke Humfries death, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.141 | Women are soft, mild, pitiful and flexible; | Women are soft, milde, pittifull, and flexible; |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.155 | As he is famed for mildness, peace, and prayer. | As he is fam'd for Mildnesse, Peace, and Prayer. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.i.39 | The tiger will be mild whiles she doth mourn; | The Tyger will be milde, whiles she doth mourne; |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.i.90 | My mild entreaty shall not make you guilty. | My milde intreatie shall not make you guiltie. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.i.98 | These were her words, uttered with mild disdain: | These were her words, vtt'red with mild disdaine: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.iv.20 | And bear with mildness my misfortune's cross; | And beare with Mildnesse my misfortunes crosse: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.viii.42 | My mildness hath allayed their swelling griefs, | My mildnesse hath allay'd their swelling griefes, |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.279 | again. But those that understood him smiled at one another, | againe. But those that vnderstood him, smil'd at one another, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.397 | And grace his foragement by being mild | And grace his forragement by being milde, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.146 | And reins you with a mild and gentle bit; | And raines you with a mild and gentle byt, |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.39 | Ah, be more mild unto these yielding men! | Ah be more milde vnto these yeelding men, |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.341 | Than praised for harmful mildness. | Then prai'sd for harmefull mildnesse. |
| King Lear | KL III.iv.113 | mildews the white wheat, and hurts the poor creature of | Mildewes the white Wheate, and hurts the poore Creature of |
| King Lear | KL IV.ii.1 | Welcome, my lord. I marvel our mild husband | Welcome my Lord. I meruell our mild husband |
| King Lear | KL IV.ii.5 | He smiled at it. I told him you were coming. | He smil'd at it. I told him you were comming, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.325 | And plant in tyrants mild humility. | And plant in Tyrants milde humilitie. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.577 | There, an't shall please you, a foolish mild man; an | There an't shall please you: a foolish milde man, an |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.187 | When men were fond, I smiled and wondered how. | When men were fond, I smild, and wondred how. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.232 | The dove pursues the griffin; the mild hind | The Doue pursues the Griffin, the milde Hinde |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.57 | And she in mild terms begged my patience, | And she in milde termes beg'd my patience, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.30 | never cheapen her; fair, or I'll never look on her; mild, | neuer cheapen her: faire, or Ile neuer looke on her: milde, |
| Pericles | Per I.i.19 | Could never be her mild companion. | Could neuer be her milde companion. |
| Pericles | Per I.i.69 | He's father, son, and husband mild; | Hee's Father, Sonne, and Husband milde; |
| Pericles | Per III.i.27.2 | Now, mild may be thy life! | Now mylde may be thy life, |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.240 | To smooth his fault I should have been more mild. | |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.69 | The King is come. Deal mildly with his youth; | The King is come, deale mildly with his youth, |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.174 | In peace was never gentle lamb more mild | In peace, was neuer gentle Lambe more milde, |
| Richard II | R2 V.i.32 | Take thy correction, mildly kiss the rod, | Take thy Correction mildly, kisse the Rodde, |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.104 | O, he was gentle, mild, and virtuous! | O he was gentle, milde, and vertuous. |
| Richard III | R3 III.i.40 | To mild entreaties, God in heaven forbid | To milde entreaties, God forbid |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.122 | Whiles, in the mildness of your sleepy thoughts, | Whiles in the mildnesse of your sleepie thoughts, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iii.7 | Melting with tenderness and mild compassion, | Melted with tendernesse, and milde compassion, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.161 | I will be mild and gentle in my words. | I will be milde, and gentle in my words. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.173 | More mild, but yet more harmful – kind in hatred. | More milde, but yet more harmfull; Kinde in hatred: |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.275 | He smiled and said, ‘ The better for our purpose.’ | He smil'd and said, the better for our purpose. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.60 | Unless you were of gentler, milder mould. | Vnlesse you were of gentler milder mould. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.71 | Maid's mild behaviour and sobriety. | Maids milde behauiour and sobrietie. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.50 | Her wondrous qualities and mild behaviour, | Her wondrous qualities, and milde behauiour, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.191 | Hearing thy mildness praised in every town, | Hearing thy mildnesse prais'd in euery Towne, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.244 | But thou with mildness entertain'st thy wooers, | But thou with mildnesse entertain'st thy wooers, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.495 | It almost turns my dangerous nature mild. | It almost turnes my dangerous Nature wilde. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.473 | That you will be more mild and tractable. | That you will be more milde and tractable. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.478 | That what we did was mildly as we might, | That what we did, was mildly, as we might, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.i.84 | To stir a mutiny in the mildest thoughts, | To stirre a mutinie in the mildest thoughts, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.iv.177 | A virtuous gentlewoman, mild, and beautiful! | A vertuous gentlewoman, milde, and beautifull. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.ii.2 | O, sir, I find her milder than she was; | Oh Sir, I finde her milder then she was, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.iv.56 | Can no way change you to a milder form, | Can no way change you to a milder forme; |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.i.93 | And with the same breath smiled and kissed her hand. | And with the same breath smil'd, and kist her hand. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.788 | rascals, whose miseries are to be smiled at, their offences | Rascals, whose miseries are to be smil'd at, their offences |