| 1H6 I.i.27 | [Exeter to all, of Henry V] shall we think the subtle-witted French ... / By magic verses have contrived his end? [or: bring about] |
| 1H6 I.iii.34 | [Gloucester to Winchester] Thou that contrived'st to murder our dead lord |
| 1H6 I.iv.77 | [Talbot to all, of Salisbury's wounding] Accursed fatal hand / That hath contrived this woeful tragedy [or: bring about] |
| 1H6 II.i.15 | [Talbot to all, of the French] their deceit, / Contrived by art and baleful sorcery [or: bring about] |
| AW IV.iii.23 | [Second Lord to First Lord] he that in this action contrives against his own nobility |
| AYL IV.iii.135 | [Celia as Aliena to Oliver, of Orlando] Was't you that did so oft contrive to kill him? |
| Ham II.ii.212 | [Polonius to himself, of Hamlet] I will leave him and suddenly contrive the means of meeting between him and my daughter |
| JC II.iii.15 | [Artemidorus alone, of his letter] the Fates with traitors do contrive |
| MV IV.i.349 | [Portia as Balthasar to Shylock, of an alien] The party 'gainst the which he doth contrive / Shall seize one half his goods |
| R2 I.i.96 | [Bolingbroke to King Richard] all the treasons ... / Complotted and contrived in this land |
| R2 I.iii.189 | [King Richard to Bolingbroke and Mowbray] never ... meet / To plot, contrive, or complot any ill |