# 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

Romeo and Juliet
[I, 1]

Montague

179

I would thou wert so happy by thy stay,
To hear true shrift. Come, madam, let's away.

2

Romeo and Juliet
[II, 3]

Friar Laurence

1115

Be plain, good son, and homely in thy drift;
Riddling confession finds but riddling shrift.

3

Romeo and Juliet
[II, 4]

Romeo

1333

Bid her devise
Some means to come to shrift this afternoon;
And there she shall at Friar Laurence' cell
Be shrived and married. Here is for thy pains.

4

Romeo and Juliet
[II, 5]

Nurse

1444

Have you got leave to go to shrift to-day?

5

Romeo and Juliet
[IV, 2]

Nurse

2511

See where she comes from shrift with merry look.