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Do not, as some ungracious pastors do,
Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven;
Whiles, like a puff'd and reckless libertine,
Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads,
And recks not his own rede.

— Hamlet, Act I Scene 3

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# 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]	Beatrice	57	Alas! he gets nothing by that. In our last conflict four of his five wits went halting off, and now is the whole man governed with one: so that if he have wit enough to keep himself warm, let him bear it for a difference between himself and his horse; for it is all the wealth that he hath left, to be known a reasonable creature. Who is his companion now? He hath every month a new sworn brother.
2	Much Ado about Nothing [I, 1]	Benedick	120	God keep your ladyship still in that mind! so some gentleman or other shall 'scape a predestinate scratched face.
3	Much Ado about Nothing [I, 1]	Benedick	127	I would my horse had the speed of your tongue, and so good a continuer. But keep your way, i' God's name; I have done.
4	Much Ado about Nothing [II, 1]	Margaret	495	And God keep him out of my sight when the dance is done! Answer, clerk.
5	Much Ado about Nothing [II, 3]	Leonato	1002	If he do fear God, a' must necessarily keep peace: if he break the peace, he ought to enter into a quarrel with fear and trembling.
6	Much Ado about Nothing [III, 3]	Dogberry	1399	Ha, ha, ha! Well, masters, good night: an there be any matter of weight chances, call up me: keep your fellows' counsels and your own; and good night. Come, neighbour.
7	Much Ado about Nothing [V, 1]	Dogberry	2395	I leave an arrant knave with your worship; which I beseech your worship to correct yourself, for the example of others. God keep your worship! I wish your worship well; God restore you to health! I humbly give you leave to depart; and if a merry meeting may be wished, God prohibit it! Come, neighbour.
8	Much Ado about Nothing [V, 2]	Margaret	2417	To have no man come over me! why, shall I always keep below stairs?

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