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Work The work is either a play, poem, or sonnet. The sonnets are treated as single work with 154 parts.

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1

As You Like It
[I, 1]

Orlando

38

Ay, better than him I am before knows me. I know you are
my eldest brother; and in the gentle condition of blood, you
should so know me. The courtesy of nations allows you my better
in that you are the first-born; but the same tradition takes not
away my blood, were there twenty brothers betwixt us. I have as
much of my father in me as you, albeit I confess your coming
before me is nearer to his reverence.

2

As You Like It
[I, 2]

Rosalind

203

Ay, marry, now unmuzzle your wisdom.

3

As You Like It
[I, 2]

Rosalind

275

Ay, my liege; so please you give us leave.

4

As You Like It
[I, 2]

Celia

361

Ay. Fare you well, fair gentleman.

5

As You Like It
[I, 3]

Frederick

471

Ay, Celia; we stay'd her for your sake,
Else had she with her father rang'd along.

6

As You Like It
[II, 1]

First Lord

595

O, yes, into a thousand similes.
First, for his weeping into the needless stream:
'Poor deer,' quoth he 'thou mak'st a testament
As worldlings do, giving thy sum of more
To that which had too much.' Then, being there alone,
Left and abandoned of his velvet friends:
'Tis right'; quoth he 'thus misery doth part
The flux of company.' Anon, a careless herd,
Full of the pasture, jumps along by him
And never stays to greet him. 'Ay,' quoth Jaques
'Sweep on, you fat and greasy citizens;
'Tis just the fashion. Wherefore do you look
Upon that poor and broken bankrupt there?'
Thus most invectively he pierceth through
The body of the country, city, court,
Yea, and of this our life; swearing that we
Are mere usurpers, tyrants, and what's worse,
To fright the animals, and to kill them up
In their assign'd and native dwelling-place.

7

As You Like It
[II, 4]

Touchstone

734

Ay, now am I in Arden; the more fool I; when I was at
home I was in a better place; but travellers must be content.

8

As You Like It
[II, 4]

Rosalind

737

Ay, be so, good Touchstone. Look you, who comes here, a
young man and an old in solemn talk.

9

As You Like It
[III, 2]

Rosalind

1279

Ay, but the feet were lame, and could not bear themselves
without the verse, and therefore stood lamely in the verse.

10

As You Like It
[III, 2]

Celia

1327

You must borrow me Gargantua's mouth first; 'tis a word too
great for any mouth of this age's size. To say ay and no to these
particulars is more than to answer in a catechism.

11

As You Like It
[IV, 1]

Rosalind

1843

Ay, of a snail; for though he comes slowly, he carries
his house on his head- a better jointure, I think, than you make
a woman; besides, he brings his destiny with him.

12

As You Like It
[IV, 1]

Rosalind

1896

Ay, and twenty such.

13

As You Like It
[IV, 1]

Rosalind

1908

Ay, but when?

14

As You Like It
[IV, 1]

Rosalind

1949

Ay, go your ways, go your ways. I knew what you would
prove; my friends told me as much, and I thought no less. That
flattering tongue of yours won me. 'Tis but one cast away, and
so, come death! Two o'clock is your hour?

15

As You Like It
[IV, 1]

Orlando

1953

Ay, sweet Rosalind.

16

As You Like It
[V, 1]

Audrey

2195

Ay, I know who 'tis; he hath no interest in me in the
world; here comes the man you mean.

17

As You Like It
[V, 1]

William

2210

Ay, sir, I thank God.

18

As You Like It
[V, 1]

William

2216

Ay, sir, I have a pretty wit.

19

As You Like It
[V, 2]

Orlando

2274

Ay, and greater wonders than that.