# Result number

Work The work is either a play, poem, or sonnet. The sonnets are treated as single work with 154 parts.

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1

Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1]

Benedick

149

Do you question me, as an honest man should do, for
my simple true judgment; or would you have me speak
after my custom, as being a professed tyrant to their sex?

2

Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 2]

Antonio

318

A good sharp fellow: I will send for him; and
question him yourself.

3

Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1]

Don Pedro

707

Your silence most offends me, and to be merry best
becomes you; for, out of question, you were born in
a merry hour.

4

Much Ado about Nothing
[III, 3]

Conrade

1487

A commodity in question, I warrant you. Come, we'll obey you.

5

Much Ado about Nothing
[IV, 1]

Claudio

1716

Let me but move one question to your daughter;
And, by that fatherly and kindly power
That you have in her, bid her answer truly.

6

Much Ado about Nothing
[V, 2]

Benedick

2483

Question: why, an hour in clamour and a quarter in
rheum: therefore is it most expedient for the
wise, if Don Worm, his conscience, find no
impediment to the contrary, to be the trumpet of his
own virtues, as I am to myself. So much for
praising myself, who, I myself will bear witness, is
praiseworthy: and now tell me, how doth your cousin?

7

Much Ado about Nothing
[V, 4]

Leonato

2546

So are the prince and Claudio, who accused her
Upon the error that you heard debated:
But Margaret was in some fault for this,
Although against her will, as it appears
In the true course of all the question.

8

Much Ado about Nothing
[V, 4]

Claudio

2666

I had well hoped thou wouldst have denied Beatrice,
that I might have cudgelled thee out of thy single
life, to make thee a double-dealer; which, out of
question, thou wilt be, if my cousin do not look
exceedingly narrowly to thee.