# 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

Tempest
[I, 1]

Gonzalo

69

He'll be hang'd yet,
Though every drop of water swear against it
And gape at widest to glut him.
[A confused noise within: 'Mercy on us!'—]
'We split, we split!'—'Farewell, my wife and
children!'—
'Farewell, brother!'—'We split, we split, we split!']

2

Tempest
[II, 2]

Stephano

1207

How didst thou 'scape? How camest thou hither?
swear by this bottle how thou camest hither. I
escaped upon a butt of sack which the sailors
heaved o'erboard, by this bottle; which I made of
the bark of a tree with mine own hands since I was
cast ashore.

3

Tempest
[II, 2]

Caliban

1213

I'll swear upon that bottle to be thy true subject;
for the liquor is not earthly.

4

Tempest
[II, 2]

Stephano

1215

Here; swear then how thou escapedst.

5

Tempest
[II, 2]

Stephano

1229

Come, swear to that; kiss the book: I will furnish
it anon with new contents swear.

6

Tempest
[II, 2]

Caliban

1239

I'll kiss thy foot; I'll swear myself thy subject.

7

Tempest
[II, 2]

Stephano

1240

Come on then; down, and swear.

8

Tempest
[V, 1]

Gonzalo

2157

Whether this be
Or be not, I'll not swear.