# Result number

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

Merchant of Venice
[I, 2]

Servant

312

The four strangers seek for you, madam, to take
their leave: and there is a forerunner come from a
fifth, the Prince of Morocco, who brings word the
prince his master will be here to-night.

2

Merchant of Venice
[II, 2]

Bassanio

731

I pray thee, good Leonardo, think on this:
These things being bought and orderly bestow'd,
Return in haste, for I do feast to-night
My best-esteem'd acquaintance: hie thee, go.

3

Merchant of Venice
[II, 2]

Gratiano

765

Nay, but I bar to-night: you shall not gauge me
By what we do to-night.

4

Merchant of Venice
[II, 4]

Launcelot Gobbo

819

Marry, sir, to bid my old master the
Jew to sup to-night with my new master the Christian.

5

Merchant of Venice
[II, 5]

Shylock

859

I am bid forth to supper, Jessica:
There are my keys. But wherefore should I go?
I am not bid for love; they flatter me:
But yet I'll go in hate, to feed upon
The prodigal Christian. Jessica, my girl,
Look to my house. I am right loath to go:
There is some ill a-brewing towards my rest,
For I did dream of money-bags to-night.

6

Merchant of Venice
[II, 5]

Shylock

876

What, are there masques? Hear you me, Jessica:
Lock up my doors; and when you hear the drum
And the vile squealing of the wry-neck'd fife,
Clamber not you up to the casements then,
Nor thrust your head into the public street
To gaze on Christian fools with varnish'd faces,
But stop my house's ears, I mean my casements:
Let not the sound of shallow foppery enter
My sober house. By Jacob's staff, I swear,
I have no mind of feasting forth to-night:
But I will go. Go you before me, sirrah;
Say I will come.

7

Merchant of Venice
[II, 6]

Antonio

978

Fie, fie, Gratiano! where are all the rest?
'Tis nine o'clock: our friends all stay for you.
No masque to-night: the wind is come about;
Bassanio presently will go aboard:
I have sent twenty out to seek for you.

8

Merchant of Venice
[II, 6]

Gratiano

983

I am glad on't: I desire no more delight
Than to be under sail and gone to-night.

9

Merchant of Venice
[IV, 2]

Portia

2417

Inquire the Jew's house out, give him this deed
And let him sign it: we'll away to-night
And be a day before our husbands home:
This deed will be well welcome to Lorenzo.