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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	Love's Labour's Lost [II, 1]	Rosaline	606	How needless was it then to ask the question!
2	Love's Labour's Lost [II, 1]	Rosaline	612	The hour that fools should ask.
3	Love's Labour's Lost [III, 1]	Biron	924	It must be done this afternoon. Hark, slave, it is but this: The princess comes to hunt here in the park, And in her train there is a gentle lady; When tongues speak sweetly, then they name her name, And Rosaline they call her: ask for her; And to her white hand see thou do commend This seal'd-up counsel. There's thy guerdon; go.
4	Love's Labour's Lost [V, 2]	Rosaline	2079	It is not so. Ask them how many inches Is in one mile: if they have measured many, The measure then of one is easily told.
5	Love's Labour's Lost [V, 2]	Longaville	2150	I know the reason, lady, why you ask.
6	Love's Labour's Lost [V, 2]	Biron	2459	Why ask you?