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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]

Claudio

146

Benedick, didst thou note the daughter of Signior Leonato?

2

Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1]

Claudio

159

Thou thinkest I am in sport: I pray thee tell me
truly how thou likest her.

3

Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1]

Benedick

177

Is't come to this? In faith, hath not the world
one man but he will wear his cap with suspicion?
Shall I never see a bachelor of three-score again?
Go to, i' faith; an thou wilt needs thrust thy neck
into a yoke, wear the print of it and sigh away
Sundays. Look Don Pedro is returned to seek you.

4

Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1]

Don Pedro

210

Thou wast ever an obstinate heretic in the despite
of beauty.

5

Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1]

Don Pedro

229

Well, if ever thou dost fall from this faith, thou
wilt prove a notable argument.

6

Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1]

Claudio

242

If this should ever happen, thou wouldst be horn-mad.

7

Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1]

Don Pedro

243

Nay, if Cupid have not spent all his quiver in
Venice, thou wilt quake for this shortly.

8

Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1]

Don Pedro

262

My love is thine to teach: teach it but how,
And thou shalt see how apt it is to learn
Any hard lesson that may do thee good.

9

Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1]

Don Pedro

266

No child but Hero; she's his only heir.
Dost thou affect her, Claudio?

10

Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1]

Don Pedro

278

Thou wilt be like a lover presently
And tire the hearer with a book of words.
If thou dost love fair Hero, cherish it,
And I will break with her and with her father,
And thou shalt have her. Was't not to this end
That thou began'st to twist so fine a story?

11

Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1]

Don Pedro

288

What need the bridge much broader than the flood?
The fairest grant is the necessity.
Look, what will serve is fit: 'tis once, thou lovest,
And I will fit thee with the remedy.
I know we shall have revelling to-night:
I will assume thy part in some disguise
And tell fair Hero I am Claudio,
And in her bosom I'll unclasp my heart
And take her hearing prisoner with the force
And strong encounter of my amorous tale:
Then after to her father will I break;
And the conclusion is, she shall be thine.
In practise let us put it presently.

12

Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 3]

Don John

338

I wonder that thou, being, as thou sayest thou art,
born under Saturn, goest about to apply a moral
medicine to a mortifying mischief. I cannot hide
what I am: I must be sad when I have cause and smile
at no man's jests, eat when I have stomach and wait
for no man's leisure, sleep when I am drowsy and
tend on no man's business, laugh when I am merry and
claw no man in his humour.

13

Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1]

Leonato

414

By my troth, niece, thou wilt never get thee a
husband, if thou be so shrewd of thy tongue.

14

Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1]

Don Pedro

607

Wilt thou make a trust a transgression? The
transgression is in the stealer.

15

Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 2]

Don John

764

Any bar, any cross, any impediment will be
medicinable to me: I am sick in displeasure to him,
and whatsoever comes athwart his affection ranges
evenly with mine. How canst thou cross this marriage?

16

Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 3]

Don Pedro

869

Now, pray thee, come;
Or, if thou wilt hold longer argument,
Do it in notes.

17

Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 3]

Don Pedro

897

Ha, no, no, faith; thou singest well enough for a shift.

18

Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 3]

Don Pedro

903

Yea, marry, dost thou hear, Balthasar? I pray thee,
get us some excellent music; for to-morrow night we
would have it at the Lady Hero's chamber-window.

19

Much Ado about Nothing
[III, 1]

Hero

1073

Good Margaret, run thee to the parlor;
There shalt thou find my cousin Beatrice
Proposing with the prince and Claudio:
Whisper her ear and tell her, I and Ursula
Walk in the orchard and our whole discourse
Is all of her; say that thou overheard'st us;
And bid her steal into the pleached bower,
Where honeysuckles, ripen'd by the sun,
Forbid the sun to enter, like favourites,
Made proud by princes, that advance their pride
Against that power that bred it: there will she hide her,
To listen our purpose. This is thy office;
Bear thee well in it and leave us alone.

20

Much Ado about Nothing
[III, 1]

Beatrice

1186

[Coming forward]
What fire is in mine ears? Can this be true?
Stand I condemn'd for pride and scorn so much?
Contempt, farewell! and maiden pride, adieu!
No glory lives behind the back of such.
And, Benedick, love on; I will requite thee,
Taming my wild heart to thy loving hand:
If thou dost love, my kindness shall incite thee
To bind our loves up in a holy band;
For others say thou dost deserve, and I
Believe it better than reportingly.