# 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

Hamlet
[I, 2]

Hamlet

267

[aside] A little more than kin, and less than kind!

2

Hamlet
[II, 2]

Polonius

1291

[aside] How say you by that? Still harping on my daughter. Yet
he knew me not at first. He said I was a fishmonger. He is far
gone, far gone! And truly in my youth I suff'red much extremity
for love- very near this. I'll speak to him again.- What do you
read, my lord?

3

Hamlet
[II, 2]

Polonius

1307

[aside] Though this be madness, yet there is a method in't.-
Will You walk out of the air, my lord?

4

Hamlet
[II, 2]

Polonius

1310

Indeed, that is out o' th' air. [Aside] How pregnant sometimes
his replies are! a happiness that often madness hits on, which
reason and sanity could not so prosperously be delivered of. I
will leave him and suddenly contrive the means of meeting between
him and my daughter.- My honourable lord, I will most humbly take
my leave of you.

5

Hamlet
[II, 2]

Rosencrantz

1385

[aside to Guildenstern] What say you?

6

Hamlet
[II, 2]

Hamlet

1386

[aside] Nay then, I have an eye of you.- If you love me, hold
not off.

7

Hamlet
[II, 2]

Polonius

1488

[aside] Still on my daughter.

8

Hamlet
[III, 1]

Claudius

1740

[aside] O, 'tis too true!
How smart a lash that speech doth give my conscience!
The harlot's cheek, beautied with plast'ring art,
Is not more ugly to the thing that helps it
Than is my deed to my most painted word.
O heavy burthen!

9

Hamlet
[III, 2]

Hamlet

2073

[aside] Wormwood, wormwood!
Queen. The instances that second marriage move
Are base respects of thrift, but none of love.
A second time I kill my husband dead
When second husband kisses me in bed.

10

Hamlet
[IV, 5]

Gertrude

2873

Let her come in.
[Exit Gentleman.]
[Aside] To my sick soul (as sin's true nature is)
Each toy seems Prologue to some great amiss.
So full of artless jealousy is guilt
It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.

11

Hamlet
[V, 1]

Hamlet

3536

No, faith, not a jot; but to follow him thither with modesty
enough, and likelihood to lead it; as thus: Alexander died,
Alexander was buried, Alexander returneth into dust; the dust is
earth; of earth we make loam; and why of that loam (whereto he
was converted) might they not stop a beer barrel?
Imperious Caesar, dead and turn'd to clay,
Might stop a hole to keep the wind away.
O, that that earth which kept the world in awe
Should patch a wall t' expel the winter's flaw!
But soft! but soft! aside! Here comes the King-
Enter [priests with] a coffin [in funeral procession], King,
[Queen, Laertes, with Lords attendant.]
The Queen, the courtiers. Who is this they follow?
And with such maimed rites? This doth betoken
The corse they follow did with desp'rate hand
Fordo it own life. 'Twas of some estate.
Couch we awhile, and mark.

12

Hamlet
[V, 2]

Hamlet

3738

I humbly thank you, sir. [Aside to Horatio] Dost know this
waterfly?

13

Hamlet
[V, 2]

Horatio

3740

[aside to Hamlet] No, my good lord.

14

Hamlet
[V, 2]

Hamlet

3741

[aside to Horatio] Thy state is the more gracious; for 'tis a
vice to know him. He hath much land, and fertile. Let a beast be
lord of beasts, and his crib shall stand at the king's mess. 'Tis
a chough; but, as I say, spacious in the possession of dirt.

15

Hamlet
[V, 2]

Horatio

3774

[aside to Hamlet] Is't not possible to understand in another
tongue? You will do't, sir, really.

16

Hamlet
[V, 2]

Horatio

3778

[aside] His purse is empty already. All's golden words are
spent.

17

Hamlet
[V, 2]

Horatio

3799

[aside to Hamlet] I knew you must be edified by the margent
ere you had done.

18

Hamlet
[V, 2]

Claudius

3944

[aside] It is the poison'd cup; it is too late.

19

Hamlet
[V, 2]

Laertes

3949

[aside] And yet it is almost against my conscience.