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# 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	Comedy of Errors [II, 2]	Dromio of Syracuse	437	Ay, sir, and wherefore; for they say every why hath a wherefore.
2	Comedy of Errors [II, 2]	Dromio of Syracuse	441	Was there ever any man thus beaten out of season, When in the why and the wherefore is neither rhyme nor reason? Well, sir, I thank you.
3	Comedy of Errors [III, 1]	Dromio of Syracuse	656	[Within] Right, sir; I'll tell you when, an you tell me wherefore.
4	Comedy of Errors [III, 1]	Antipholus of Ephesus	658	Wherefore? for my dinner: I have not dined to-day.
5	Comedy of Errors [IV, 4]	Antipholus of Ephesus	1346	Say, wherefore didst thou lock me forth to-day? And why dost thou deny the bag of gold?
6	Comedy of Errors [IV, 4]	Antipholus of Ephesus	1381	Out on thee, villain! wherefore dost thou mad me?
7	Comedy of Errors [V, 1]	Aemilia	1467	Be quiet, people. Wherefore throng you hither?