# 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."

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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.

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1

Midsummer Night's Dream
[III, 1]

Bottom

827

There are things in this comedy of Pyramus and
Thisby that will never please. First, Pyramus must
draw a sword to kill himself; which the ladies
cannot abide. How answer you that?

2

Midsummer Night's Dream
[III, 2]

Puck

1155

Then will two at once woo one;
That must needs be sport alone;
And those things do best please me
That befal preposterously.

3

Midsummer Night's Dream
[V, 1]

Philostrate

1947

So please your grace, the Prologue is address'd.

4

Midsummer Night's Dream
[V, 1]

Bottom

2197

[Starting up] No assure you; the wall is down that
parted their fathers. Will it please you to see the
epilogue, or to hear a Bergomask dance between two
of our company?