# 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

Merchant of Venice
[I, 1]

Gratiano

117

Thanks, i' faith, for silence is only commendable
In a neat's tongue dried and a maid not vendible.

2

Merchant of Venice
[I, 3]

Antonio

480

Content, i' faith: I'll seal to such a bond
And say there is much kindness in the Jew.

3

Merchant of Venice
[II, 4]

Lorenzo

813

I know the hand: in faith, 'tis a fair hand;
And whiter than the paper it writ on
Is the fair hand that writ.

4

Merchant of Venice
[II, 4]

Gratiano

816

Love-news, in faith.

5

Merchant of Venice
[II, 6]

Salarino

914

O, ten times faster Venus' pigeons fly
To seal love's bonds new-made, than they are wont
To keep obliged faith unforfeited!

6

Merchant of Venice
[III, 2]

Gratiano

1559

My lord Bassanio and my gentle lady,
I wish you all the joy that you can wish;
For I am sure you can wish none from me:
And when your honours mean to solemnize
The bargain of your faith, I do beseech you,
Even at that time I may be married too.

7

Merchant of Venice
[III, 2]

Bassanio

1581

And do you, Gratiano, mean good faith?

8

Merchant of Venice
[III, 2]

Gratiano

1582

Yes, faith, my lord.

9

Merchant of Venice
[IV, 1]

Gratiano

2063

O, be thou damn'd, inexecrable dog!
And for thy life let justice be accused.
Thou almost makest me waver in my faith
To hold opinion with Pythagoras,
That souls of animals infuse themselves
Into the trunks of men: thy currish spirit
Govern'd a wolf, who, hang'd for human slaughter,
Even from the gallows did his fell soul fleet,
And, whilst thou lay'st in thy unhallow'd dam,
Infused itself in thee; for thy desires
Are wolvish, bloody, starved and ravenous.

10

Merchant of Venice
[V, 1]

Jessica

2465

In such a night
Did young Lorenzo swear he loved her well,
Stealing her soul with many vows of faith
And ne'er a true one.

11

Merchant of Venice
[V, 1]

Gratiano

2607

[To NERISSA] By yonder moon I swear you do me wrong;
In faith, I gave it to the judge's clerk:
Would he were gelt that had it, for my part,
Since you do take it, love, so much at heart.

12

Merchant of Venice
[V, 1]

Portia

2631

You were to blame, I must be plain with you,
To part so slightly with your wife's first gift:
A thing stuck on with oaths upon your finger
And so riveted with faith unto your flesh.
I gave my love a ring and made him swear
Never to part with it; and here he stands;
I dare be sworn for him he would not leave it
Nor pluck it from his finger, for the wealth
That the world masters. Now, in faith, Gratiano,
You give your wife too unkind a cause of grief:
An 'twere to me, I should be mad at it.

13

Merchant of Venice
[V, 1]

Antonio

2719

I once did lend my body for his wealth;
Which, but for him that had your husband's ring,
Had quite miscarried: I dare be bound again,
My soul upon the forfeit, that your lord
Will never more break faith advisedly.