# 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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1

As You Like It
[III, 3]

Touchstone

1543

Amen. A man may, if he were of a fearful heart, stagger
in this attempt; for here we have no temple but the wood, no
assembly but horn-beasts. But what though? Courage! As horns are
odious, they are necessary. It is said: 'Many a man knows no end
of his goods.' Right! Many a man has good horns and knows no end
of them. Well, that is the dowry of his wife; 'tis none of his
own getting. Horns? Even so. Poor men alone? No, no; the noblest
deer hath them as huge as the rascal. Is the single man therefore
blessed? No; as a wall'd town is more worthier than a village, so
is the forehead of a married man more honourable than the bare
brow of a bachelor; and by how much defence is better than no
skill, by so much is horn more precious than to want. Here comes
Sir Oliver.
[Enter SIR OLIVER MARTEXT]
Sir Oliver Martext, you are well met. Will you dispatch us here
under this tree, or shall we go with you to your chapel?

2

As You Like It
[III, 3]

Touchstone

1576

[Aside] I am not in the mind but I were better to be
married of him than of another; for he is not like to marry me
well; and not being well married, it will be a good excuse for me
hereafter to leave my wife.

3

As You Like It
[IV, 1]

Rosalind

1847

Why, horns; which such as you are fain to be beholding to
your wives for; but he comes armed in his fortune, and prevents
the slander of his wife.

4

As You Like It
[IV, 1]

Celia

1906

Go to. Will you, Orlando, have to wife this Rosalind?

5

As You Like It
[IV, 1]

Rosalind

1910

Then you must say 'I take thee, Rosalind, for wife.'

6

As You Like It
[IV, 1]

Orlando

1911

I take thee, Rosalind, for wife.

7

As You Like It
[IV, 1]

Orlando

1935

A man that had a wife with such a wit, he might say 'Wit,
whither wilt?'