# 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

All's Well That Ends Well
[III, 5]

Mariana

1712

He's shrewdly vexed at something: look, he has spied us.

2

All's Well That Ends Well
[V, 3]

King of France

2945

You boggle shrewdly, every feather stars you.
Is this the man you speak of?

3

Hamlet
[I, 4]

Hamlet

626

The air bites shrewdly; it is very cold.

4

Henry V
[III, 7]

Constable of France

1687

Nay, for methought yesterday your mistress shrewdly
shook your back.

5

Henry V
[III, 7]

Duke of Orleans

1780

Ay, but these English are shrewdly out of beef.

6

Julius Caesar
[III, 1]

Cassius

1363

I wish we may: but yet have I a mind
That fears him much; and my misgiving still
Falls shrewdly to the purpose.

7

Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1]

Leonato

469

Cousin, you apprehend passing shrewdly.

8

Troilus and Cressida
[III, 3]

Achilles

2109

I see my reputation is at stake
My fame is shrewdly gored.

9

Twelfth Night
[V, 1]

Olivia

2557

Alas, Malvolio, this is not my writing,
Though, I confess, much like the character
But out of question 'tis Maria's hand.
And now I do bethink me, it was she
First told me thou wast mad; then camest in smiling,
And in such forms which here were presupposed
Upon thee in the letter. Prithee, be content:
This practise hath most shrewdly pass'd upon thee;
But when we know the grounds and authors of it,
Thou shalt be both the plaintiff and the judge
Of thine own cause.

10

Winter's Tale
[V, 1]

Paulina

2941

O Hermione,
As every present time doth boast itself
Above a better gone, so must thy grave
Give way to what's seen now! Sir, you yourself
Have said and writ so, but your writing now
Is colder than that theme, 'She had not been,
Nor was not to be equall'd;'—thus your verse
Flow'd with her beauty once: 'tis shrewdly ebb'd,
To say you have seen a better.