#
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 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
(stage directions) |
1 |
[Enter LEONATO, HERO, and BEATRICE, with a Messenger]
|
2 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Messenger |
7 |
But few of any sort, and none of name.
|
3 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Messenger |
11 |
Much deserved on his part and equally remembered by
Don Pedro: he hath borne himself beyond the
promise of his age, doing, in the figure of a lamb,
the feats of a lion: he hath indeed better
bettered expectation than you must expect of me to
tell you how.
|
4 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Messenger |
19 |
I have already delivered him letters, and there
appears much joy in him; even so much that joy could
not show itself modest enough without a badge of
bitterness.
|
5 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Messenger |
34 |
O, he's returned; and as pleasant as ever he was.
|
6 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Beatrice |
35 |
He set up his bills here in Messina and challenged
Cupid at the flight; and my uncle's fool, reading
the challenge, subscribed for Cupid, and challenged
him at the bird-bolt. I pray you, how many hath he
killed and eaten in these wars? But how many hath
he killed? for indeed I promised to eat all of his killing.
|
7 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Beatrice |
44 |
You had musty victual, and he hath holp to eat it:
he is a very valiant trencherman; he hath an
excellent stomach.
|
8 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Messenger |
47 |
And a good soldier too, lady.
|
9 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Beatrice |
48 |
And a good soldier to a lady: but what is he to a lord?
|
10 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Leonato |
53 |
You must not, sir, mistake my niece. There is a
kind of merry war betwixt Signior Benedick and her:
they never meet but there's a skirmish of wit
between them.
|
11 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Beatrice |
57 |
Alas! he gets nothing by that. In our last
conflict four of his five wits went halting off, and
now is the whole man governed with one: so that if
he have wit enough to keep himself warm, let him
bear it for a difference between himself and his
horse; for it is all the wealth that he hath left,
to be known a reasonable creature. Who is his
companion now? He hath every month a new sworn brother.
|
12 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Beatrice |
74 |
O Lord, he will hang upon him like a disease: he
is sooner caught than the pestilence, and the taker
runs presently mad. God help the noble Claudio! if
he have caught the Benedick, it will cost him a
thousand pound ere a' be cured.
|
13 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
(stage directions) |
84 |
[Enter DON PEDRO, DON JOHN, CLAUDIO, BENEDICK, and BALTHASAR]
|
14 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Don Pedro |
85 |
Good Signior Leonato, you are come to meet your
trouble: the fashion of the world is to avoid
cost, and you encounter it.
|
15 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Leonato |
88 |
Never came trouble to my house in the likeness of
your grace: for trouble being gone, comfort should
remain; but when you depart from me, sorrow abides
and happiness takes his leave.
|
16 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Benedick |
111 |
Then is courtesy a turncoat. But it is certain I
am loved of all ladies, only you excepted: and I
would I could find in my heart that I had not a hard
heart; for, truly, I love none.
|
17 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Beatrice |
115 |
A dear happiness to women: they would else have
been troubled with a pernicious suitor. I thank God
and my cold blood, I am of your humour for that: I
had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man
swear he loves me.
|
18 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Benedick |
127 |
I would my horse had the speed of your tongue, and
so good a continuer. But keep your way, i' God's
name; I have done.
|
19 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Don Pedro |
131 |
That is the sum of all, Leonato. Signior Claudio
and Signior Benedick, my dear friend Leonato hath
invited you all. I tell him we shall stay here at
the least a month; and he heartily prays some
occasion may detain us longer. I dare swear he is no
hypocrite, but prays from his heart.
|
20 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
(stage directions) |
145 |
[Exeunt all except BENEDICK and CLAUDIO]
|