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And men sit down to that nourishment which is called supper.

— Love's Labour's Lost, Act I Scene 1

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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	Measure for Measure [IV, 2]	Provost	1890	Come, sir, leave me your snatches, and yield me a direct answer. To-morrow morning are to die Claudio and Barnardine. Here is in our prison a common executioner, who in his office lacks a helper: if you will take it on you to assist him, it shall redeem you from your gyves; if not, you shall have your full time of imprisonment and your deliverance with an unpitied whipping, for you have been a notorious bawd.
2	Measure for Measure [IV, 2]	Provost	1943	Call hither Barnardine and Claudio: [Exeunt POMPEY and ABHORSON] The one has my pity; not a jot the other, Being a murderer, though he were my brother. [Enter CLAUDIO] Look, here's the warrant, Claudio, for thy death: 'Tis now dead midnight, and by eight to-morrow Thou must be made immortal. Where's Barnardine?
3	Measure for Measure [IV, 2]	Provost	2025	[Reads] 'Whatsoever you may hear to the contrary, let Claudio be executed by four of the clock; and in the afternoon Barnardine: for my better satisfaction, let me have Claudio's head sent me by five. Let this be duly performed; with a thought that more depends on it than we must yet deliver. Thus fail not to do your office, as you will answer it at your peril.' What say you to this, sir?
4	Measure for Measure [IV, 2]	Vincentio	2034	What is that Barnardine who is to be executed in the afternoon?
5	Measure for Measure [IV, 2]	Vincentio	2075	By the vow of mine order I warrant you, if my instructions may be your guide. Let this Barnardine be this morning executed, and his head born to Angelo.
6	Measure for Measure [IV, 3]	Abhorson	2137	Sirrah, bring Barnardine hither.
7	Measure for Measure [IV, 3]	Pompey	2138	Master Barnardine! you must rise and be hanged. Master Barnardine!
8	Measure for Measure [IV, 3]	Abhorson	2140	What, ho, Barnardine!
9	Measure for Measure [IV, 3]	Pompey	2147	Pray, Master Barnardine, awake till you are executed, and sleep afterwards.
10	Measure for Measure [IV, 3]	(stage directions)	2153	[Enter BARNARDINE]
11	Measure for Measure [IV, 3]	Provost	2201	This shall be done, good father, presently. But Barnardine must die this afternoon: And how shall we continue Claudio, To save me from the danger that might come If he were known alive?
12	Measure for Measure [IV, 3]	Vincentio	2206	Let this be done. Put them in secret holds, both Barnardine and Claudio: Ere twice the sun hath made his journal greeting To the under generation, you shall find Your safety manifested.
13	Measure for Measure [V, 1]	Provost	2907	His name is Barnardine.
14	Measure for Measure [V, 1]	Angelo	2915	I am sorry that such sorrow I procure: And so deep sticks it in my penitent heart That I crave death more willingly than mercy; 'Tis my deserving, and I do entreat it. [Re-enter Provost, with BARNARDINE, CLAUDIO muffled,] and JULIET]
15	Measure for Measure [V, 1]	Vincentio	2921	Which is that Barnardine?

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