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Every one can master a grief but he that has it.

— Much Ado about Nothing, Act III Scene 2

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# 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	Troilus and Cressida [I, 2]	Pandarus	259	I swear to you. I think Helen loves him better than Paris.
2	Troilus and Cressida [III, 2]	Pandarus	1693	Come, come, what need you blush? shame's a baby. Here she is now: swear the oaths now to her that you have sworn to me. What, are you gone again? you must be watched ere you be made tame, must you? Come your ways, come your ways; an you draw backward, we'll put you i' the fills. Why do you not speak to her? Come, draw this curtain, and let's see your picture. Alas the day, how loath you are to offend daylight! an 'twere dark, you'ld close sooner. So, so; rub on, and kiss the mistress. How now! a kiss in fee-farm! build there, carpenter; the air is sweet. Nay, you shall fight your hearts out ere I part you. The falcon as the tercel, for all the ducks i' the river: go to, go to.
3	Troilus and Cressida [III, 2]	Cressida	1735	They say all lovers swear more performance than they are able and yet reserve an ability that they never perform, vowing more than the perfection of ten and discharging less than the tenth part of one. They that have the voice of lions and the act of hares, are they not monsters?
4	Troilus and Cressida [IV, 1]	Aeneas	2219	And thou shalt hunt a lion, that will fly With his face backward. In humane gentleness, Welcome to Troy! now, by Anchises' life, Welcome, indeed! By Venus' hand I swear, No man alive can love in such a sort The thing he means to kill more excellently.
5	Troilus and Cressida [V, 2]	Diomedes	3075	What did you swear you would bestow on me?
6	Troilus and Cressida [V, 2]	Troilus	3148	I did swear patience.
7	Troilus and Cressida [V, 3]	Hector	3293	Be gone, I say: the gods have heard me swear.

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