# 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

Love's Labour's Lost
[I, 1]

Ferdinand

96

How well he's read, to reason against reading!

2

Love's Labour's Lost
[I, 1]

Biron

115

No, my good lord; I have sworn to stay with you:
And though I have for barbarism spoke more
Than for that angel knowledge you can say,
Yet confident I'll keep what I have swore
And bide the penance of each three years' day.
Give me the paper; let me read the same;
And to the strict'st decrees I'll write my name.

3

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

Moth

386

As I have read, sir; and the best of them too.

4

Love's Labour's Lost
[II, 1]

Princess of France

591

Were my lord so, his ignorance were wise,
Where now his knowledge must prove ignorance.
I hear your grace hath sworn out house-keeping:
Tis deadly sin to keep that oath, my lord,
And sin to break it.
But pardon me. I am too sudden-bold:
To teach a teacher ill beseemeth me.
Vouchsafe to read the purpose of my coming,
And suddenly resolve me in my suit.

5

Love's Labour's Lost
[IV, 1]

Princess of France

1031

We will read it, I swear.
Break the neck of the wax, and every one give ear.

6

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

Jaquenetta

1237

Good master Parson, be so good as read me this
letter: it was given me by Costard, and sent me
from Don Armado: I beseech you, read it.

7

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

Dumain

1427

Once more I'll read the ode that I have writ.

8

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

Jaquenetta

1530

I beseech your grace, let this letter be read:
Our parson misdoubts it; 'twas treason, he said.

9

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

Ferdinand

1532

Biron, read it over.
[Giving him the paper]
Where hadst thou it?