# 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]

Nerissa

290

You need not fear, lady, the having any of these
lords: they have acquainted me with their
determinations; which is, indeed, to return to their
home and to trouble you with no more suit, unless
you may be won by some other sort than your father's
imposition depending on the caskets.

2

Merchant of Venice
[I, 2]

Portia

296

If I live to be as old as Sibylla, I will die as
chaste as Diana, unless I be obtained by the manner
of my father's will. I am glad this parcel of wooers
are so reasonable, for there is not one among them
but I dote on his very absence, and I pray God grant
them a fair departure.

3

Merchant of Venice
[II, 4]

Salanio

805

'Tis vile, unless it may be quaintly order'd,
And better in my mind not undertook.

4

Merchant of Venice
[II, 4]

Lorenzo

834

I must needs tell thee all. She hath directed
How I shall take her from her father's house,
What gold and jewels she is furnish'd with,
What page's suit she hath in readiness.
If e'er the Jew her father come to heaven,
It will be for his gentle daughter's sake:
And never dare misfortune cross her foot,
Unless she do it under this excuse,
That she is issue to a faithless Jew.
Come, go with me; peruse this as thou goest:
Fair Jessica shall be my torch-bearer.

5

Merchant of Venice
[III, 1]

Salanio

1313

Here comes another of the tribe: a third cannot be
matched, unless the devil himself turn Jew.

6

Merchant of Venice
[III, 2]

Salerio

1609

Not sick, my lord, unless it be in mind;
Nor well, unless in mind: his letter there
Will show you his estate.

7

Merchant of Venice
[IV, 1]

Duke

2036

Upon my power I may dismiss this court,
Unless Bellario, a learned doctor,
Whom I have sent for to determine this,
Come here to-day.

8

Merchant of Venice
[V, 1]

Nerissa

2753

Ay, but the clerk that never means to do it,
Unless he live until he be a man.