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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	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 [II, 8]	Salarino	1098	Marry, well remember'd. I reason'd with a Frenchman yesterday, Who told me, in the narrow seas that part The French and English, there miscarried A vessel of our country richly fraught: I thought upon Antonio when he told me; And wish'd in silence that it were not his.
3	Merchant of Venice [III, 5]	Lorenzo	1881	How every fool can play upon the word! I think the best grace of wit will shortly turn into silence, and discourse grow commendable in none only but parrots. Go in, sirrah; bid them prepare for dinner.
4	Merchant of Venice [V, 1]	Lorenzo	2475	Who comes so fast in silence of the night?
5	Merchant of Venice [V, 1]	Nerissa	2558	Silence bestows that virtue on it, madam.