# 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

Midsummer Night's Dream
[I, 2]

Bottom

335

I grant you, friends, if that you should fright the
ladies out of their wits, they would have no more
discretion but to hang us: but I will aggravate my
voice so that I will roar you as gently as any
sucking dove; I will roar you an 'twere any
nightingale.

2

Midsummer Night's Dream
[V, 1]

Theseus

2074

True; and a goose for his discretion.

3

Midsummer Night's Dream
[V, 1]

Demetrius

2075

Not so, my lord; for his valour cannot carry his
discretion; and the fox carries the goose.

4

Midsummer Night's Dream
[V, 1]

Theseus

2077

His discretion, I am sure, cannot carry his valour;
for the goose carries not the fox. It is well:
leave it to his discretion, and let us listen to the moon.

5

Midsummer Night's Dream
[V, 1]

Theseus

2092

It appears, by his small light of discretion, that
he is in the wane; but yet, in courtesy, in all
reason, we must stay the time.