# 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."

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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

Merchant of Venice
[I, 2]

Portia

305

Yes, yes, it was Bassanio; as I think, he was so called.

2

Merchant of Venice
[I, 3]

Shylock

354

Yes, to smell pork; to eat of the habitation which
your prophet the Nazarite conjured the devil into. I
will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you,
walk with you, and so following, but I will not eat
with you, drink with you, nor pray with you. What
news on the Rialto? Who is he comes here?

3

Merchant of Venice
[I, 3]

Antonio

499

Yes Shylock, I will seal unto this bond.

4

Merchant of Venice
[III, 1]

Tubal

1333

Yes, other men have ill luck too: Antonio, as I
heard in Genoa,—

5

Merchant of Venice
[III, 2]

Gratiano

1582

Yes, faith, my lord.

6

Merchant of Venice
[III, 5]

Launcelot Gobbo

1841

Yes, truly; for, look you, the sins of the father
are to be laid upon the children: therefore, I
promise ye, I fear you. I was always plain with
you, and so now I speak my agitation of the matter:
therefore be of good cheer, for truly I think you
are damned. There is but one hope in it that can do
you any good; and that is but a kind of bastard
hope neither.

7

Merchant of Venice
[IV, 1]

Bassanio

2150

Yes, here I tender it for him in the court;
Yea, twice the sum: if that will not suffice,
I will be bound to pay it ten times o'er,
On forfeit of my hands, my head, my heart:
If this will not suffice, it must appear
That malice bears down truth. And I beseech you,
Wrest once the law to your authority:
To do a great right, do a little wrong,
And curb this cruel devil of his will.