# 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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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

Winter's Tale
[I, 2]

Mamillius

196

Ay, my good lord.

2

Winter's Tale
[I, 2]

Camillo

301

Ay, my good lord.

3

Winter's Tale
[I, 2]

Leontes

329

Ay, but why?

4

Winter's Tale
[I, 2]

Leontes

414

Why, he that wears her like a medal, hanging
About his neck, Bohemia: who, if I
Had servants true about me, that bare eyes
To see alike mine honour as their profits,
Their own particular thrifts, they would do that
Which should undo more doing: ay, and thou,
His cupbearer,—whom I from meaner form
Have benched and reared to worship, who mayst see
Plainly as heaven sees earth and earth sees heaven,
How I am galled,—mightst bespice a cup,
To give mine enemy a lasting wink;
Which draught to me were cordial.

5

Winter's Tale
[II, 1]

Leontes

698

You have mistook, my lady,
Polixenes for Leontes: O thou thing!
Which I'll not call a creature of thy place,
Lest barbarism, making me the precedent,
Should a like language use to all degrees
And mannerly distinguishment leave out
Betwixt the prince and beggar: I have said
She's an adulteress; I have said with whom:
More, she's a traitor and Camillo is
A federary with her, and one that knows
What she should shame to know herself
But with her most vile principal, that she's
A bed-swerver, even as bad as those
That vulgars give bold'st titles, ay, and privy
To this their late escape.

6

Winter's Tale
[II, 1]

Antigonus

757

If it prove
She's otherwise, I'll keep my stables where
I lodge my wife; I'll go in couples with her;
Than when I feel and see her no farther trust her;
For every inch of woman in the world,
Ay, every dram of woman's flesh is false, If she be.

7

Winter's Tale
[III, 2]

Officer

1361

Ay, my lord; even so
As it is here set down.

8

Winter's Tale
[III, 3]

Mariner

1489

Ay, my lord: and fear
We have landed in ill time: the skies look grimly
And threaten present blusters. In my conscience,
The heavens with that we have in hand are angry
And frown upon 's.

9

Winter's Tale
[IV, 4]

Perdita

2107

Ay, good brother, or go about to think.

10

Winter's Tale
[IV, 4]

Old Shepherd

2788

Ay, sir.

11

Winter's Tale
[V, 1]

Gentleman

2939

Ay, the most peerless piece of earth, I think,
That e'er the sun shone bright on.

12

Winter's Tale
[V, 2]

Clown

3245

Ay, and have been so any time these four hours.

13

Winter's Tale
[V, 2]

Clown

3255

Ay; or else 'twere hard luck, being in so
preposterous estate as we are.

14

Winter's Tale
[V, 2]

Autolycus

3263

Ay, an it like your good worship.

15

Winter's Tale
[V, 2]

Clown

3278

Ay, by any means prove a tall fellow: if I do not
wonder how thou darest venture to be drunk, not
being a tall fellow, trust me not. Hark! the kings
and the princes, our kindred, are going to see the
queen's picture. Come, follow us: we'll be thy
good masters.

16

Winter's Tale
[V, 3]

Polixenes

3428

Ay, and make't manifest where she has lived,
Or how stolen from the dead.