# 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

Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1]

Don Pedro

131

That is the sum of all, Leonato. Signior Claudio
and Signior Benedick, my dear friend Leonato hath
invited you all. I tell him we shall stay here at
the least a month; and he heartily prays some
occasion may detain us longer. I dare swear he is no
hypocrite, but prays from his heart.

2

Much Ado about Nothing
[III, 2]

Don Pedro

1199

I do but stay till your marriage be consummate, and
then go I toward Arragon.

3

Much Ado about Nothing
[III, 3]

Dogberry

1389

This is the end of the charge:—you, constable, are
to present the prince's own person: if you meet the
prince in the night, you may stay him.

4

Much Ado about Nothing
[III, 3]

Dogberry

1393

Five shillings to one on't, with any man that knows
the statutes, he may stay him: marry, not without
the prince be willing; for, indeed, the watch ought
to offend no man; and it is an offence to stay a
man against his will.

5

Much Ado about Nothing
[III, 5]

Messenger

1629

My lord, they stay for you to give your daughter to
her husband.

6

Much Ado about Nothing
[V, 2]

Benedick

2451

O, stay but till then!