# 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

Merchant of Venice
[II, 6]

Jessica

952

What, must I hold a candle to my shames?
They in themselves, good-sooth, are too too light.
Why, 'tis an office of discovery, love;
And I should be obscured.

2

Merchant of Venice
[II, 9]

Portia

1212

Thus hath the candle singed the moth.
O, these deliberate fools! when they do choose,
They have the wisdom by their wit to lose.

3

Merchant of Venice
[V, 1]

Portia

2546

That light we see is burning in my hall.
How far that little candle throws his beams!
So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

4

Merchant of Venice
[V, 1]

Nerissa

2549

When the moon shone, we did not see the candle.