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We have seen better days.

— Timon of Athens, Act IV Scene 2

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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	Measure for Measure [II, 1]	(stage directions)	497	[Enter ELBOW, and Officers with FROTH and POMPEY]
2	Measure for Measure [II, 1]	Elbow	502	If it Please your honour, I am the poor duke's constable, and my name is Elbow: I do lean upon justice, sir, and do bring in here before your good honour two notorious benefactors.
3	Measure for Measure [II, 1]	Angelo	513	Go to: what quality are they of? Elbow is your name? why dost thou not speak, Elbow?
4	Measure for Measure [II, 1]	Pompey	515	He cannot, sir; he's out at elbow.
5	Measure for Measure [II, 1]	Pompey	548	No, indeed, sir, not of a pin; you are therein in the right: but to the point. As I say, this Mistress Elbow, being, as I say, with child, and being great-bellied, and longing, as I said, for prunes; and having but two in the dish, as I said, Master Froth here, this very man, having eaten the rest, as I said, and, as I say, paying for them very honestly; for, as you know, Master Froth, I could not give you three-pence again.
6	Measure for Measure [II, 1]	Escalus	701	Come hither to me, Master Elbow; come hither, Master constable. How long have you been in this place of constable?
7	Measure for Measure [II, 1]	Escalus	717	To my house. Fare you well. [Exit ELBOW] What's o'clock, think you?
8	Measure for Measure [III, 2]	(stage directions)	1512	[Enter, on one side, DUKE VINCENTIO disguised as] before; on the other, ELBOW, and Officers with POMPEY]
9	Measure for Measure [III, 2]	Lucio	1596	Go to kennel, Pompey; go. [Exeunt ELBOW, POMPEY and Officers] What news, friar, of the duke?

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