| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.135 | Was't you that did so oft contrive to kill him? | Was't you that did so oft contriue to kill him? |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.85 | Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive | Taint not thy mind; nor let thy Soule contriue |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.212 | and suddenly contrive the means of meeting between | And sodainely contriue the meanes of meeting / Betweene |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.iii.15 | If not, the Fates with traitors do contrive. | If not, the Fates with Traitors do contriue. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.349 | The party 'gainst the which he doth contrive | The party gainst the which he doth contriue, |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.189 | To plot, contrive, or complot any ill | To plot, contriue, or complot any ill, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.ii.273 | Please ye we may contrive this afternoon, | Please ye we may contriue this afternoone, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.201 | That do contrive how many hands shall strike, | That do contriue how many hands shall strike |