| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.168 | You love my son. Invention is ashamed | You loue my sonne, inuention is asham'd |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.vi.90 | None in the world, but return with an invention, | None in the world, but returne with an inuention, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.i.26 | It must be a very plausive invention that carries it. They | It must bee a very plausiue inuention that carries it. They |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xii.29 | From thine invention, offers. Women are not | From thine inuention, offers. Women are not |
| As You Like It | AYL II.v.44 | yesterday in despite of my invention. | yesterday in despight of my Inuention. |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.29 | I say she never did invent this letter; | I say she neuer did inuent this letter, |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.30 | This is a man's invention, and his hand. | This is a mans inuention, and his hand. |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.35 | Could not drop forth such giant rude invention, | Could not drop forth such giant rude inuention, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.19 | that afflicts us, the object of our misery, is as an inventory | that afflicts vs, the obiect of our misery, is as an inuentory |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.ii.143 | Let them accuse me by invention, I | Let them accuse me by inuention: I |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.ii.30 | Would testify, t' enrich mine inventory. | Would testifie, t'enrich mine Inuentorie. |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.113 | though, I know, to divide him inventorially would dizzy | |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.379 | Fallen on th' inventors' heads. All this can I | Falne on the Inuentors heads. All this can I |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.8 | to invent anything that intends to laughter more than I | to inuent any thing that tends to laughter, more then I |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.9 | invent, or is invented on me; I am not only witty in | inuent, or is inuented on me. I am not onely witty in |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.ii.16 | thy peach-coloured once! Or to bear the inventory of | thy peach-colour'd ones:) Or to beare the Inuentorie of |
| Henry V | H5 I.chorus.2 | The brightest heaven of invention, | The brightest Heauen of Inuention: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.5 | Do it without invention, suddenly; | Doe it without inuention, suddenly, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.311 | I would invent as bitter searching terms, | I would inuent as bitter searching termes, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.146 | He lies, for I invented it myself. (To Stafford) | He lyes, for I inuented it my selfe. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.i.35 | By such invention as I can devise? | By such inuention as I can deuise? |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.124 | Forsooth, an inventory, thus importing | Forsooth an Inuentory, thus importing |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.137 | You are full of heavenly stuff, and bear the inventory | You are full of Heauenly stuffe, and beare the Inuentory |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.451 | There take an inventory of all I have, | There take an Inuentory of all I haue, |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.20 | And my invention thrive, Edmund the base | And my inuention thriue, Edmond the base |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.ii.125 | of invention? Imitari is nothing. So doth the hound his | of inuention imitarie is nothing: So doth the Hound his |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.ii.157 | poetry, wit, nor invention. I beseech your society. | Poetrie, Wit, nor Inuention. I beseech your Societie. |
| Macbeth | Mac I.vii.10 | To plague the inventor. This even-handed justice | To plague th' Inuenter, this euen-handed Iustice |
| Macbeth | Mac III.i.32 | With strange invention. But of that tomorrow, | With strange inuention. But of that to morrow, |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.iv.3 | Whilst my invention, hearing not my tongue, | Whilst my Inuention, hearing not my Tongue, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.v.78 | approach, and, in her invention and Ford's wife's | approch: and in her inuention, and Fords wiues |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.192 | Nor age so eat up my invention, | Nor age so eate vp my inuention, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.260 | Impose me to what penance your invention | Impose me to what penance your inuention |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.270 | Can labour aught in sad invention, | Can labour aught in sad inuention, |
| Othello | Oth II.i.124 | I am about it, but indeed my invention | I am about it, but indeed my inuention |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.32 | would invent some other custom of entertainment. | would inuent some other Custome of entertainment. |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.189 | wit and invention! | wit, and inuention? |
| Pericles | Per I.iv.40 | Must have inventions to delight the taste | Must haue inuentions to delight the tast, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.187 | Both our inventions meet and jump in one. | Both our inuentions meet and iumpe in one. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.i.79 | To change true rules for odd inventions. | To charge true rules for old inuentions. |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.234 | out divers schedules of my beauty. It shall be inventoried, | out diuers scedules of my beautie. It shalbe Inuentoried |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.ii.42 | full of invention. Taunt him with the licence of ink. If | full of inuention: taunt him with the license of Inke: if |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.331 | Or say 'tis not your seal, nor your invention; | Or say, tis not your seale, not your inuention: |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.342 | That e'er invention played on? Tell me why? | That ere inuention plaid on? Tell me why? |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.217 | If you desire their lives, invent a way | If you desire their lives, invent a way |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.281.2 | Any death thou canst invent, Duke. | Any death thou canst invent Duke. |