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O day and night, but this is wondrous strange!

— Hamlet, Act I Scene 5

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# Result number	Work The work is either a play, poem, or sonnet. The sonnets are treated as single work with 154 parts.	Character Indicates who said the line. If it's a play or sonnet, the character name is "Poet."	Line Shows where the line falls within the work. The numbering is not keyed to any copyrighted numbering system found in a volume of collected works (Arden, Oxford, etc.) The numbering starts at the beginning of the work, and does not restart for each scene.	Text The line's full text, with keywords highlighted within it, unless highlighting has been disabled by the user.
1	Twelfth Night [I, 3]	Maria	179	Now, sir, 'thought is free:' I pray you, bring your hand to the buttery-bar and let it drink.
2	Twelfth Night [I, 5]	Olivia	396	Fetch him off, I pray you; he speaks nothing but madman: fie on him! [Exit MARIA] Go you, Malvolio: if it be a suit from the count, I am sick, or not at home; what you will, to dismiss it. [Exit MALVOLIO] Now you see, sir, how your fooling grows old, and people dislike it.
3	Twelfth Night [I, 5]	Viola	464	Most radiant, exquisite and unmatchable beauty,—I pray you, tell me if this be the lady of the house, for I never saw her: I would be loath to cast away my speech, for besides that it is excellently well penned, I have taken great pains to con it. Good beauties, let me sustain no scorn; I am very comptible, even to the least sinister usage.
4	Twelfth Night [I, 5]	Olivia	488	It is the more like to be feigned: I pray you, keep it in. I heard you were saucy at my gates, and allowed your approach rather to wonder at you than to hear you. If you be not mad, be gone; if you have reason, be brief: 'tis not that time of moon with me to make one in so skipping a dialogue.
5	Twelfth Night [III, 1]	Olivia	1342	O, by your leave, I pray you, I bade you never speak again of him: But, would you undertake another suit, I had rather hear you to solicit that Than music from the spheres.
6	Twelfth Night [III, 3]	Sebastian	1510	I am not weary, and 'tis long to night: I pray you, let us satisfy our eyes With the memorials and the things of fame That do renown this city.
7	Twelfth Night [III, 4]	Maria	1647	La you, an you speak ill of the devil, how he takes it at heart! Pray God, he be not bewitched!
8	Twelfth Night [III, 4]	Maria	1663	Get him to say his prayers, good Sir Toby, get him to pray.
9	Twelfth Night [III, 4]	Viola	1778	I pray you, sir, what is he?
10	Twelfth Night [III, 4]	Viola	1804	Pray you, sir, do you know of this matter?
11	Twelfth Night [III, 4]	Viola	1848	[Aside] Pray God defend me! A little thing would make me tell them how much I lack of a man.
12	Twelfth Night [III, 4]	Sir Andrew Aguecheek	1856	Pray God, he keep his oath!
13	Twelfth Night [III, 4]	Viola	1871	Pray, sir, put your sword up, if you please.
14	Twelfth Night [III, 4]	Second Officer	1912	Come, sir, I pray you, go.
15	Twelfth Night [V, 1]	Malvolio	2542	Lady, you have. Pray you, peruse that letter. You must not now deny it is your hand: Write from it, if you can, in hand or phrase; Or say 'tis not your seal, nor your invention: You can say none of this: well, grant it then And tell me, in the modesty of honour, Why you have given me such clear lights of favour, Bade me come smiling and cross-garter'd to you, To put on yellow stockings and to frown Upon Sir Toby and the lighter people; And, acting this in an obedient hope, Why have you suffer'd me to be imprison'd, Kept in a dark house, visited by the priest, And made the most notorious geck and gull That e'er invention play'd on? tell me why.

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