# 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

Comedy of Errors
[I, 2]

First Merchant

163

Therefore give out you are of Epidamnum,
Lest that your goods too soon be confiscate.
This very day a Syracusian merchant
Is apprehended for arrival here;
And not being able to buy out his life
According to the statute of the town,
Dies ere the weary sun set in the west.
There is your money that I had to keep.

2

Comedy of Errors
[II, 2]

Dromio of Syracuse

455

Lest it make you choleric and purchase me another
dry basting.

3

Comedy of Errors
[II, 2]

Adriana

608

Ay; and let none enter, lest I break your pate.

4

Comedy of Errors
[III, 1]

Dromio of Syracuse

653

[Within] Let him walk from whence he came, lest he
catch cold on's feet.

5

Comedy of Errors
[III, 2]

Antipholus of Syracuse

916

There's none but witches do inhabit here;
And therefore 'tis high time that I were hence.
She that doth call me husband, even my soul
Doth for a wife abhor. But her fair sister,
Possess'd with such a gentle sovereign grace,
Of such enchanting presence and discourse,
Hath almost made me traitor to myself:
But, lest myself be guilty to self-wrong,
I'll stop mine ears against the mermaid's song.

6

Comedy of Errors
[IV, 1]

Antipholus of Ephesus

994

No; bear it with you, lest I come not time enough.