# 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

Love's Labour's Lost
[IV, 2]

Dull

1178

You two are book-men: can you tell me by your wit
What was a month old at Cain's birth, that's not five
weeks old as yet?

2

Love's Labour's Lost
[IV, 2]

Holofernes

1184

The moon was a month old when Adam was no more,
And raught not to five weeks when he came to
five-score.
The allusion holds in the exchange.

3

Love's Labour's Lost
[V, 1]

Moth

1786

The third of the five vowels, if you repeat them; or
the fifth, if I.

4

Love's Labour's Lost
[V, 2]

Rosaline

1890

That was the way to make his godhead wax,
For he hath been five thousand years a boy.

5

Love's Labour's Lost
[V, 2]

Ferdinand

2467

Here is like to be a good presence of Worthies. He
presents Hector of Troy; the swain, Pompey the
Great; the parish curate, Alexander; Armado's page,
Hercules; the pedant, Judas Maccabaeus: And if
these four Worthies in their first show thrive,
These four will change habits, and present the other five.

6

Love's Labour's Lost
[V, 2]

Biron

2473

There is five in the first show.

7

Love's Labour's Lost
[V, 2]

Biron

2475

The pedant, the braggart, the hedge-priest, the fool
and the boy:—
Abate throw at novum, and the whole world again
Cannot pick out five such, take each one in his vein.