# 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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Love's Labour's Lost
[IV, 3]

Biron

1728

Allons! allons! Sow'd cockle reap'd no corn;
And justice always whirls in equal measure:
Light wenches may prove plagues to men forsworn;
If so, our copper buys no better treasure.

2

Love's Labour's Lost
[V, 2]

Ferdinand

2075

Say to her, we have measured many miles
To tread a measure with her on this grass.

3

Love's Labour's Lost
[V, 2]

Boyet

2077

They say, that they have measured many a mile
To tread a measure with you on this grass.

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]

Biron

2085

Tell her, we measure them by weary steps.

6

Love's Labour's Lost
[V, 2]

Ferdinand

2101

Then, in our measure do but vouchsafe one change.
Thou bid'st me beg: this begging is not strange.

7

Love's Labour's Lost
[V, 2]

Rosaline

2115

Only to part friends:
Curtsy, sweet hearts; and so the measure ends.

8

Love's Labour's Lost
[V, 2]

Ferdinand

2117

More measure of this measure; be not nice.