# 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."

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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.

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1

Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1]

Claudio

556

Thus answer I in the name of Benedick,
But hear these ill news with the ears of Claudio.
'Tis certain so; the prince wooes for himself.
Friendship is constant in all other things
Save in the office and affairs of love:
Therefore, all hearts in love use their own tongues;
Let every eye negotiate for itself
And trust no agent; for beauty is a witch
Against whose charms faith melteth into blood.
This is an accident of hourly proof,
Which I mistrusted not. Farewell, therefore, Hero!

2

Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1]

Leonato

713

Niece, will you look to those things I told you of?

3

Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1]

Leonato

730

Not till Monday, my dear son, which is hence a just
seven-night; and a time too brief, too, to have all
things answer my mind.

4

Much Ado about Nothing
[IV, 1]

Leonato

1708

Are these things spoken, or do I but dream?

5

Much Ado about Nothing
[IV, 1]

Don John

1709

Sir, they are spoken, and these things are true.

6

Much Ado about Nothing
[IV, 1]

Don John

1756

Come, let us go. These things, come thus to light,
Smother her spirits up.

7

Much Ado about Nothing
[V, 1]

Dogberry

2288

Marry, sir, they have committed false report;
moreover, they have spoken untruths; secondarily,
they are slanders; sixth and lastly, they have
belied a lady; thirdly, they have verified unjust
things; and, to conclude, they are lying knaves.

8

Much Ado about Nothing
[V, 4]

Antonio

2551

Well, I am glad that all things sort so well.