# 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

Two Gentlemen of Verona
[II, 1]

Valentine

459

How long hath she been deformed?

2

Two Gentlemen of Verona
[II, 7]

Lucetta

983

Alas, the way is wearisome and long!

3

Two Gentlemen of Verona
[II, 7]

Julia

990

O, know'st thou not his looks are my soul's food?
Pity the dearth that I have pined in,
By longing for that food so long a time.
Didst thou but know the inly touch of love,
Thou wouldst as soon go kindle fire with snow
As seek to quench the fire of love with words.

4

Two Gentlemen of Verona
[III, 1]

Duke of Milan

1151

There is a lady in Verona here
Whom I affect; but she is nice and coy
And nought esteems my aged eloquence:
Now therefore would I have thee to my tutor—
For long agone I have forgot to court;
Besides, the fashion of the time is changed—
How and which way I may bestow myself
To be regarded in her sun-bright eye.

5

Two Gentlemen of Verona
[III, 1]

Duke of Milan

1201

A cloak as long as thine will serve the turn?

6

Two Gentlemen of Verona
[III, 1]

Launce

1443

Thou must run to him, for thou hast stayed so long
that going will scarce serve the turn.

7

Two Gentlemen of Verona
[III, 2]

Proteus

1498

You have prevail'd, my lord; if I can do it
By ought that I can speak in his dispraise,
She shall not long continue love to him.
But say this weed her love from Valentine,
It follows not that she will love Sir Thurio.

8

Two Gentlemen of Verona
[IV, 1]

Third Outlaw

1573

Have you long sojourned there?

9

Two Gentlemen of Verona
[V, 2]

Thurio

2068

What, that my leg is too long?

10

Two Gentlemen of Verona
[V, 4]

Valentine

2149

How use doth breed a habit in a man!
This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods,
I better brook than flourishing peopled towns:
Here can I sit alone, unseen of any,
And to the nightingale's complaining notes
Tune my distresses and record my woes.
O thou that dost inhabit in my breast,
Leave not the mansion so long tenantless,
Lest, growing ruinous, the building fall
And leave no memory of what it was!
Repair me with thy presence, Silvia;
Thou gentle nymph, cherish thy forlorn swain!
What halloing and what stir is this to-day?
These are my mates, that make their wills their law,
Have some unhappy passenger in chase.
They love me well; yet I have much to do
To keep them from uncivil outrages.
Withdraw thee, Valentine: who's this comes here?

11

Two Gentlemen of Verona
[V, 4]

Valentine

2272

Come, come, a hand from either:
Let me be blest to make this happy close;
'Twere pity two such friends should be long foes.