# 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

Measure for Measure
[III, 2]

Lucio

1635

Who, not the duke? yes, your beggar of fifty; and
his use was to put a ducat in her clack-dish: the
duke had crotchets in him. He would be drunk too;
that let me inform you.

2

Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 1]

Mistress Ford

712

Faith, thou hast some crotchets in thy head. Now,
will you go, Mistress Page?

3

Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 3]

Don Pedro

874

Why, these are very crotchets that he speaks;
Note, notes, forsooth, and nothing.

4

Romeo and Juliet
[IV, 5]

Peter

2776

Then will I lay the serving-creature's dagger on
your pate. I will carry no crotchets: I'll re you,
I'll fa you; do you note me?