# 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."

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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

As You Like It
[III, 2]

Touchstone

1150

Such a one is a natural philosopher. Wast ever in
court, shepherd?

2

As You Like It
[V, 1]

Touchstone

2217

Why, thou say'st well. I do now remember a saying: 'The
fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be
a fool.' The heathen philosopher, when he had a desire to eat a
grape, would open his lips when he put it into his mouth; meaning
thereby that grapes were made to eat and lips to open. You do
love this maid?

3

King Lear
[III, 4]

Lear

1946

First let me talk with this philosopher.
What is the cause of thunder?

4

King Lear
[III, 4]

Lear

1965

O, cry you mercy, sir.
Noble philosopher, your company.

5

King Lear
[III, 4]

Lear

1971

With him!
I will keep still with my philosopher.

6

Merchant of Venice
[I, 2]

Portia

239

He doth nothing but frown, as who should say 'If you
will not have me, choose:' he hears merry tales and
smiles not: I fear he will prove the weeping
philosopher when he grows old, being so full of
unmannerly sadness in his youth. I had rather be
married to a death's-head with a bone in his mouth
than to either of these. God defend me from these
two!

7

Much Ado about Nothing
[V, 1]

Leonato

2102

I pray thee, peace. I will be flesh and blood;
For there was never yet philosopher
That could endure the toothache patiently,
However they have writ the style of gods
And made a push at chance and sufferance.

8

Timon of Athens
[I, 1]

Poet

254

How now, philosopher!

9

Timon of Athens
[II, 2]

Fool

790

A fool in good clothes, and something like thee.
'Tis a spirit: sometime't appears like a lord;
sometime like a lawyer; sometime like a philosopher,
with two stones moe than's artificial one: he is
very often like a knight; and, generally, in all
shapes that man goes up and down in from fourscore
to thirteen, this spirit walks in.

10

Timon of Athens
[II, 2]

Fool

804

I do not always follow lover, elder brother and
woman; sometime the philosopher.