# Result number

Work The work is either a play, poem, or sonnet. The sonnets are treated as single work with 154 parts.

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All's Well That Ends Well
[III, 6]

First Lord

1759

O, for the love of laughter, let him fetch his drum;
he says he has a stratagem for't: when your
lordship sees the bottom of his success in't, and to
what metal this counterfeit lump of ore will be
melted, if you give him not John Drum's
entertainment, your inclining cannot be removed.
Here he comes.