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Can one desire too much of a good thing?

— As You Like It, Act IV Scene 1

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# 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	Two Gentlemen of Verona [I, 1]	Valentine	26	'Tis true; for you are over boots in love, And yet you never swum the Hellespont.
2	Two Gentlemen of Verona [I, 2]	Lucetta	160	As of a knight well-spoken, neat and fine; But, were I you, he never should be mine.
3	Two Gentlemen of Verona [I, 2]	Julia	177	Why he, of all the rest, hath never moved me.
4	Two Gentlemen of Verona [II, 1]	Speed	458	You never saw her since she was deformed.
5	Two Gentlemen of Verona [II, 4]	Silvia	765	And duty never yet did want his meed: Servant, you are welcome to a worthless mistress.
6	Two Gentlemen of Verona [II, 5]	Launce	880	Forswear not thyself, sweet youth, for I am not welcome. I reckon this always, that a man is never undone till he be hanged, nor never welcome to a place till some certain shot be paid and the hostess say 'Welcome!'
7	Two Gentlemen of Verona [II, 5]	Launce	912	Thou shalt never get such a secret from me but by a parable.
8	Two Gentlemen of Verona [II, 5]	Launce	915	I never knew him otherwise.
9	Two Gentlemen of Verona [II, 7]	Lucetta	1039	Then never dream on infamy, but go. If Proteus like your journey when you come, No matter who's displeased when you are gone: I fear me, he will scarce be pleased withal.
10	Two Gentlemen of Verona [III, 1]	Duke of Milan	1116	Upon mine honour, he shall never know That I had any light from thee of this.
11	Two Gentlemen of Verona [III, 1]	Valentine	1163	A woman sometimes scorns what best contents her. Send her another; never give her o'er; For scorn at first makes after-love the more. If she do frown, 'tis not in hate of you, But rather to beget more love in you: If she do chide, 'tis not to have you gone; For why, the fools are mad, if left alone. Take no repulse, whatever she doth say; For 'get you gone,' she doth not mean 'away!' Flatter and praise, commend, extol their graces; Though ne'er so black, say they have angels' faces. That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man, If with his tongue he cannot win a woman.
12	Two Gentlemen of Verona [III, 2]	Duke of Milan	1494	Where your good word cannot advantage him, Your slander never can endamage him; Therefore the office is indifferent, Being entreated to it by your friend.
13	Two Gentlemen of Verona [V, 4]	Valentine	2215	Thou common friend, that's without faith or love, For such is a friend now; treacherous man! Thou hast beguiled my hopes; nought but mine eye Could have persuaded me: now I dare not say I have one friend alive; thou wouldst disprove me. Who should be trusted, when one's own right hand Is perjured to the bosom? Proteus, I am sorry I must never trust thee more, But count the world a stranger for thy sake. The private wound is deepest: O time most accurst, 'Mongst all foes that a friend should be the worst!
14	Two Gentlemen of Verona [V, 4]	Julia	2243	O good sir, my master charged me to deliver a ring to Madam Silvia, which, out of my neglect, was never done.

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