# 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

Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1]

Claudio

159

Thou thinkest I am in sport: I pray thee tell me
truly how thou likest her.

2

Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 3]

Claudio

969

To what end? He would make but a sport of it and
torment the poor lady worse.

3

Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 3]

Don Pedro

1019

Let there be the same net spread for her; and that
must your daughter and her gentlewomen carry. The
sport will be, when they hold one an opinion of
another's dotage, and no such matter: that's the
scene that I would see, which will be merely a
dumb-show. Let us send her to call him in to dinner.

4

Much Ado about Nothing
[III, 1]

Ursula

1134

Sure, I think so;
And therefore certainly it were not good
She knew his love, lest she make sport at it.