| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL I.ii.23 | From henceforth I will, coz, and devise sports. | From henceforth I will Coz, and deuise sports: |
| As You Like It | AYL I.iii.98 | Therefore devise with me how we may fly, | Therefore deuise with me how we may flie |
| As You Like It | AYL I.iii.133 | Devise the fittest time and safest way | Deuise the fittest time, and safest way |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.180 | I shall devise something. But I pray you | I shall deuise something: but I pray you |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.100 | Did see and hear, devise, instruct, walk, feel, | Did see, and heare, deuise, instruct, walke, feele, |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.ii.122.1 | Which we devise him. | which we deuise him. |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.i.38 | I'll follow thee a month, devise with thee | Ile follow thee a Moneth, deuise with thee |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.52 | Can you devise me? | Can you aduise me? |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.68 | The rather if you could devise it so | |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.i.71 | of their company. I will devise matter enough out of | of their Companie. I will deuise matter enough out of |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.iii.131 | Come, Pistol, utter more to me, and withal devise | Come Pistoll, vtter more to mee: and withall deuise |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.172 | And for his safety there I'll best devise. | And for his safetie there Ile best deuise. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.ii.124 | My lord, where are you? What devise you on? | My Lord,where are you? what deuise you on? |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.iii.17 | Then thus it must be; this doth Joan devise: | Then thus it must be, this doth Ioane deuise: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.59 | Devise strange deaths for small offences done? | Deuise strange deaths, for small offences done? |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.121 | In your Protectorship you did devise | In your Protectorship, you did deuise |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.viii.67 | Follow me, soldiers; we'll devise a mean | Follow me souldiers, wee'l deuise a meane, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.vi.71 | Clifford, devise excuses for thy faults. | Clifford, deuise excuses for thy faults. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.vi.72 | While we devise fell tortures for thy faults. | While we deuise fell Tortures for thy faults. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.i.35 | By such invention as I can devise? | By such inuention as I can deuise? |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.246 | But speak all good you can devise of Caesar, | But speake all good you can deuise of Casar, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.85 | Devise for fair a fairer word than fair, | Deuise for faire a fairer word then faire, |
| King John | KJ III.i.149 | Thou canst not, Cardinal, devise a name | Thou canst not (Cardinall) deuise a name |
| King John | KJ III.i.250 | Out of your grace, devise, ordain, impose | Out of your grace, deuise, ordaine, impose |
| King Lear | KL V.i.64 | Let her who would be rid of him devise | Let her who would be rid of him, deuise |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.130 | the rest of the court can possibly devise. | the rest of the Court shall possibly deuise. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.ii.177 | sure I shall turn sonnet. Devise, wit; write, pen; for I | sure I shall turne Sonnet. Deuise Wit, write Pen, for I |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.348 | And win them too! Therefore let us devise | And winne them too, therefore let vs deuise, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.ii.17 | mine own teaching. The brain may devise laws for the | mine owne teaching: the braine may deuise lawes for the |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.ii.68 | Good hearts, devise something. Any extremity | Good hearts, deuise something: any extremitie, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.iv.24 | Devise but how you'll use him when he comes, | Deuise but how you'l vse him whẽ he comes, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.iv.25 | And let us two devise to bring him thither. | And let vs two deuise to bring him thether. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.35 | This falls out better than I could devise! | This fals out better then I could deuise: |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.243 | to the Antipodes that you can devise to send me on. I | to the Antypodes that you can deuise to send me on: I |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.i.84 | And, truly, I'll devise some honest slanders | And truly Ile deuise some honest slanders, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.iv.125 | Think not on him till tomorrow; I'll devise | Thinke not on him till to morrow, ile deuise |
| Othello | Oth III.i.36 | And I'll devise a mean to draw the Moor | And Ile deuise a meane to draw the Moore |
| Othello | Oth III.iv.11 | I know not where he lodges, and for me to devise a | I know not where he lodges, and for mee to deuise a |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.216 | this world with treachery, and devise engines for my life. | this world with Treacherie, and deuise Engines for my life. |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.77 | What I have spoke or thou canst worse devise. | What I haue spoken, or thou canst deuise. |
| Richard II | R2 III.iv.1 | What sport shall we devise here in this garden | What sport shall we deuise here in this Garden, |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.329 | Whatever I shall happen to devise. | What euer I shall happen to deuise. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.176 | Bid her devise | Bid her deuise |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.i.68 | But love thee better than thou canst devise | But lou'd thee better then thou can'st deuise: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.240 | And with wild looks bid me devise some mean | And (with wilde lookes) bid me deuise some meanes |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.i.128 | As kill a man or else devise his death, | As kill a man, or else deuise his death, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.77 | thinking it harder for our mistress to devise imposition | thinking it harder for our Mistresse to deuise imposition |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.437 | I will devise a death as cruel for thee | I will deuise a death, as cruell for thee |