| AC III.xii.29 | [Caesar to Thidias, of persuading Cleopatra] add more, / From thine invention, offers |
| AYL II.v.44 | [Jaques to all] this note, that I made yesterday in despite of my invention [i.e. even though I am not creative] |
| AYL IV.iii.35 | [Rosalind as Ganymede to Silvius, of Phebe's letter to Ganymede] such giant rude invention |
| H5 I.chorus.2 | [Chorus] O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend / The brightest heaven of invention |
| LLL IV.ii.125 | [Holofernes to Nathaniel, of Ovid's family name 'Naso' (= nose)] for smelling out ... the jerks of invention |
| LLL IV.ii.157 | [Holofernes to Nathaniel, of Berowne's verses] neither savouring of poetry, wit, nor invention |
| MA IV.i.192 | [Leonato to Benedick] Nor age so eat up my invention |
| MA V.i.260 | [Claudio to Leonato] Impose me to what penance your invention / Can lay upon my sin |
| MA V.i.270 | [Leonato to Don Pedro and Claudio] if your love / Can labour aught in sad invention |
| MW III.v.78 | [Falstaff to Ford as Brook, of Mistress Page] in her invention and Ford's wife's distraction |
| Oth II.i.124 | [Iago to Desdemona] my invention / Comes from my pate as birdlime does from frieze [i.e. with great difficulty] |
| Oth IV.i.189 | [Othello to Iago, of Desdemona] Of so high and plenteous wit and invention! |
| Sonn.103.7 | [of a face] That overgoes my blunt invention quite, / Dulling my lines |
| Sonn.105.11 | [] Fair, kind, and true, varying to other words, / And in this change is my invention spent, / Three themes in one |
| Sonn.38.8 | [] thou thyself dost give invention light |
| Sonn.59.3 | [of brains] labouring for invention |
| Sonn.76.6 | [of his verse] Why write I still all one, ever the same, / And keep invention in a noted weed |