# 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

Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1]

Messenger

79

I will hold friends with you, lady.

2

Much Ado about Nothing
[III, 5]

Leonato

1587

What is it, my good friends?

3

Much Ado about Nothing
[IV, 1]

Leonato

1841

I know not. If they speak but truth of her,
These hands shall tear her; if they wrong her honour,
The proudest of them shall well hear of it.
Time hath not yet so dried this blood of mine,
Nor age so eat up my invention,
Nor fortune made such havoc of my means,
Nor my bad life reft me so much of friends,
But they shall find, awaked in such a kind,
Both strength of limb and policy of mind,
Ability in means and choice of friends,
To quit me of them throughly.

4

Much Ado about Nothing
[IV, 1]

Benedick

1948

We'll be friends first.

5

Much Ado about Nothing
[IV, 1]

Beatrice

1949

You dare easier be friends with me than fight with mine enemy.

6

Much Ado about Nothing
[V, 4]

Benedick

2671

Come, come, we are friends: let's have a dance ere
we are married, that we may lighten our own hearts
and our wives' heels.