# 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.

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1

Two Gentlemen of Verona
[I, 1]

Speed

124

And yet it cannot overtake your slow purse.

2

Two Gentlemen of Verona
[II, 1]

Speed

412

And yet I was last chidden for being too slow.

3

Two Gentlemen of Verona
[III, 1]

Speed

1400

'Item: She is slow in words.'

4

Two Gentlemen of Verona
[III, 1]

Launce

1401

O villain, that set this down among her vices! To
be slow in words is a woman's only virtue: I pray
thee, out with't, and place it for her chief virtue.

5

Two Gentlemen of Verona
[III, 1]

Launce

1415

Of her tongue she cannot, for that's writ down she
is slow of; of her purse she shall not, for that
I'll keep shut: now, of another thing she may, and
that cannot I help. Well, proceed.

6

Two Gentlemen of Verona
[IV, 2]

Julia

1696

Ay, I would I were deaf; it makes me have a slow heart.