# 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

Measure for Measure
[I, 4]

Isabella

372

Why 'her unhappy brother'? let me ask,
The rather for I now must make you know
I am that Isabella and his sister.

2

Measure for Measure
[II, 1]

Elbow

592

I beseech you, sir, ask him what this man did to my wife.

3

Measure for Measure
[II, 1]

Pompey

593

I beseech your honour, ask me.

4

Measure for Measure
[II, 2]

Angelo

745

Did not I tell thee yea? hadst thou not order?
Why dost thou ask again?

5

Measure for Measure
[II, 2]

Isabella

901

Because authority, though it err like others,
Hath yet a kind of medicine in itself,
That skins the vice o' the top. Go to your bosom;
Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know
That's like my brother's fault: if it confess
A natural guiltiness such as is his,
Let it not sound a thought upon your tongue
Against my brother's life.

6

Measure for Measure
[III, 1]

Claudio

1411

Let me ask my sister pardon. I am so out of love
with life that I will sue to be rid of it.

7

Measure for Measure
[IV, 2]

Pompey

1933

Sir, I will serve him; for I do find your hangman is
a more penitent trade than your bawd; he doth
oftener ask forgiveness.