# 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.

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1

Comedy of Errors
[I, 2]

Dromio of Ephesus

227

I pray you, air, as you sit at dinner:
I from my mistress come to you in post;
If I return, I shall be post indeed,
For she will score your fault upon my pate.
Methinks your maw, like mine, should be your clock,
And strike you home without a messenger.

2

Comedy of Errors
[I, 2]

Dromio of Ephesus

246

I have some marks of yours upon my pate,
Some of my mistress' marks upon my shoulders,
But not a thousand marks between you both.
If I should pay your worship those again,
Perchance you will not bear them patiently.

3

Comedy of Errors
[II, 1]

Adriana

351

Back, slave, or I will break thy pate across.

4

Comedy of Errors
[II, 2]

Dromio of Syracuse

461

Marry, sir, by a rule as plain as the plain bald
pate of father Time himself.

5

Comedy of Errors
[II, 2]

Adriana

608

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

6

Comedy of Errors
[III, 1]

Dromio of Syracuse

706

[Within] Break any breaking here, and I'll break your
knave's pate.