| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL I.i.141 | device, and never leave thee till he hath ta'en thy life | deuise, and neuer leaue thee till he hath tane thy life |
| As You Like It | AYL I.i.156 | noble device, of all sorts enchantingly beloved, and | noble deuise, of all sorts enchantingly beloued, and |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.21 | This is a letter of your own device. | This is a Letter of your owne deuice. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.ii.95 | Upon my life, by some device or other | Vpon my life by some deuise or other, |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vii.189 | In France: 'tis plate of rare device, and jewels | In France: 'tis Plate of rare deuice, and Iewels |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.63 | To an exploit now ripe in my device, | To an exployt now ripe in my Deuice, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.257 | then say it was in fight! What trick, what device, what | then say it was in fight. What trick? what deuice? what |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.ii.41 | I think by some odd gimmers or device | I thinke by some odde Gimmors or Deuice |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.141 | Deceitful Warwick! It was thy device | Deceitfull Warwicke, it was thy deuice, |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.204.1 | Under device and practice. | Vnder deuice, and practise. |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.217 | No new device to beat this from his brains? | No new deuice to beate this from his Braines? |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iv.27 | And their device of antique heraldry, | And their deuice of Antique heraldry, |
| King John | KJ I.i.210 | And not alone in habit and device, | And not alone in habit and deuice, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.i.131 | An excellent device! So if any of the audience hiss, | An excellent deuice: so if any of the audience hisse, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.661 | device. Sweet royalty, bestow on me the sense of | deuice; / Sweet Royaltie bestow on me the sence of |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.iv.81 | But come, I'll tell thee all my whole device | But come, Ile tell thee all my whole deuice |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.40 | And there is also another device in my prain, which | and there is also another deuice in my praine, which |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.iv.39.2 | Marry, this is our device: | Marry this is our deuise, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.vi.52 | Well, husband your device. I'll to the vicar. | Well, husband your deuice; Ile to the Vicar, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.15 | Not a whit. I have a device to make all well. | Not a whit, I haue a deuice to make all well. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.50 | That is an old device, and it was played | The. That is an old deuice, and it was plaid |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.377 | Dull not device by coldness and delay. | Dull not Deuice, by coldnesse, and delay. |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.175 | Every day thou daff'st me with some device, | Euery day thou dafts me with some deuise |
| Pericles | Per II.ii.15 | The labour of each knight in his device. | The labour of each Knight, in his deuice. |
| Pericles | Per II.ii.19 | And the device he bears upon his shield | And the deuice he beares vpon his Shield, |
| Pericles | Per II.ii.25 | And the device he bears upon his shield | And the deuice he beares vpon his Shield, |
| Pericles | Per II.ii.29 | And his device a wreath of chivalry. | and his deuice, / A wreath of Chiually: |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.159 | O excellent device! And make a sop | O excellent deuice; and make a sop |
| Richard III | R3 III.vi.11 | That cannot see this palpable device? | that cannot see this palpable deuice? |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.190.1 | That's your device. | That's your deuice. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.ii.133 | That so I may by this device at least | That so I may by this deuice at least |
| The Tempest | Tem III.iii.54.3 | device, the banquet vanishes | deuice the Banquet vanishes |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.147 | And entertained me with mine own device. | And entertain'd me with mine owne deuice. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.398 | Whether by device or no, the heavens can tell. | (Whether by deuise or no) the heauens can tell, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.i.79.1 | By this device. | By this deuise. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.134 | Plot some device of further misery | Plot some deuise of further miseries |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iv.52 | I know from whence this same device proceeds. | I know from whence this same deuise proceedes: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.120 | What says Andronicus to this device? | What saies Andronicus to this deuise? |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.375 | And by device let blockish Ajax draw | And by deuice let blockish Aiax draw |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iii.155 | Excellent! I smell a device. | Excellent, I smell a deuice. |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.175 | I could marry this wench for this device. | I could marry this wench for this deuice. |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.129 | device, man. | deuice man. |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.130 | Nay, pursue him now, lest the device take air, and | Nay pursue him now, least the deuice take ayre, and |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.139 | device to the bar, and crown thee for a finder of madmen. | deuice to the bar and crowne thee for a finder of madmen: |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.358 | Set this device against Malvolio here, | Set this deuice against Maluolio heere, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.i.132 | O excellent device! Was there ever heard a better, | Oh excellent deuise, was there euer heard a better? |