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In King Cambyses' vein.

— King Henry IV. Part I, Act II Scene 4

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KEYWORD: dull

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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	Love's Labour's Lost [I, 1]	(stage directions)	186	[Enter DULL with a letter, and COSTARD]
2	Love's Labour's Lost [I, 1]	Ferdinand	260	[Reads] 'with a child of our grandmother Eve, a female; or, for thy more sweet understanding, a woman. Him I, as my ever-esteemed duty pricks me on, have sent to thee, to receive the meed of punishment, by thy sweet grace's officer, Anthony Dull; a man of good repute, carriage, bearing, and estimation.'
3	Love's Labour's Lost [I, 1]	Dull	267	'Me, an't shall please you; I am Anthony Dull.
4	Love's Labour's Lost [I, 2]	(stage directions)	423	[Enter DULL, COSTARD, and JAQUENETTA]
5	Love's Labour's Lost [I, 2]	(stage directions)	442	[Exeunt DULL and JAQUENETTA]
6	Love's Labour's Lost [III, 1]	Don Adriano de Armado	817	The meaning, pretty ingenious? Is not lead a metal heavy, dull, and slow?
7	Love's Labour's Lost [IV, 2]	(stage directions)	1141	[Enter HOLOFERNES, SIR NATHANIEL, and DULL]
8	Love's Labour's Lost [IV, 2]	Holofernes	1181	Dictynna, goodman Dull; Dictynna, goodman Dull.
9	Love's Labour's Lost [IV, 2]	Holofernes	1312	And, certes, the text most infallibly concludes it. [To DULL] Sir, I do invite you too; you shall not say me nay: pauca verba. Away! the gentles are at their game, and we will to our recreation.
10	Love's Labour's Lost [V, 1]	(stage directions)	1733	[Enter HOLOFERNES, SIR NATHANIEL, and DULL]
11	Love's Labour's Lost [V, 1]	Holofernes	1873	Via, goodman Dull! thou hast spoken no word all this while.
12	Love's Labour's Lost [V, 1]	Holofernes	1878	Most dull, honest Dull! To our sport, away!

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