# 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.

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1

Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1]

Beatrice

435

No, but to the gate; and there will the devil meet
me, like an old cuckold, with horns on his head, and
say 'Get you to heaven, Beatrice, get you to
heaven; here's no place for you maids:' so deliver
I up my apes, and away to Saint Peter for the
heavens; he shows me where the bachelors sit, and
there live we as merry as the day is long.

2

Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1]

Beatrice

695

Good Lord, for alliance! Thus goes every one to the
world but I, and I am sunburnt; I may sit in a
corner and cry heigh-ho for a husband!

3

Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 3]

Leonato

928

What effects, my lord? She will sit you, you heard
my daughter tell you how.

4

Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 3]

Leonato

945

This says she now when she is beginning to write to
him; for she'll be up twenty times a night, and
there will she sit in her smock till she have writ a
sheet of paper: my daughter tells us all.

5

Much Ado about Nothing
[III, 3]

Watchman

1403

Well, masters, we hear our charge: let us go sit here
upon the church-bench till two, and then all to bed.