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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

236

The savage bull may; but if ever the sensible
Benedick bear it, pluck off the bull's horns and set
them in my forehead: and let me be vilely painted,
and in such great letters as they write 'Here is
good horse to hire,' let them signify under my sign
'Here you may see Benedick the married man.'

2

Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 3]

Claudio

942

'Tis true, indeed; so your daughter says: 'Shall
I,' says she, 'that have so oft encountered him
with scorn, write to him that I love him?'

3

Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 3]

Leonato

945

This says she now when she is beginning to write to
him; for she'll be up twenty times a night, and
there will she sit in her smock till she have writ a
sheet of paper: my daughter tells us all.

4

Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 3]

Leonato

954

O, she tore the letter into a thousand halfpence;
railed at herself, that she should be so immodest
to write to one that she knew would flout her; 'I
measure him,' says she, 'by my own spirit; for I
should flout him, if he writ to me; yea, though I
love him, I should.'

5

Much Ado about Nothing
[III, 3]

First Watchman

1332

Hugh Otecake, sir, or George Seacole; for they can
write and read.

6

Much Ado about Nothing
[III, 3]

Dogberry

1334

Come hither, neighbour Seacole. God hath blessed
you with a good name: to be a well-favoured man is
the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.

7

Much Ado about Nothing
[IV, 1]

Claudio

1697

Out on thee! Seeming! I will write against it:
You seem to me as Dian in her orb,
As chaste as is the bud ere it be blown;
But you are more intemperate in your blood
Than Venus, or those pamper'd animals
That rage in savage sensuality.

8

Much Ado about Nothing
[IV, 2]

Dogberry

1994

Pray, write down, Borachio. Yours, sirrah?

9

Much Ado about Nothing
[IV, 2]

Dogberry

1996

Write down, master gentleman Conrade. Masters, do
you serve God?

10

Much Ado about Nothing
[IV, 2]

Dogberry

1999

Write down, that they hope they serve God: and
write God first; for God defend but God should go
before such villains! Masters, it is proved already
that you are little better than false knaves; and it
will go near to be thought so shortly. How answer
you for yourselves?

11

Much Ado about Nothing
[IV, 2]

Dogberry

2020

Write down Prince John a villain. Why, this is flat
perjury, to call a prince's brother villain.

12

Much Ado about Nothing
[IV, 2]

Dogberry

2048

God's my life, where's the sexton? let him write
down the prince's officer coxcomb. Come, bind them.
Thou naughty varlet!

13

Much Ado about Nothing
[IV, 2]

Dogberry

2052

Dost thou not suspect my place? dost thou not
suspect my years? O that he were here to write me
down an ass! But, masters, remember that I am an
ass; though it be not written down, yet forget not
that I am an ass. No, thou villain, thou art full of
piety, as shall be proved upon thee by good witness.
I am a wise fellow, and, which is more, an officer,
and, which is more, a householder, and, which is
more, as pretty a piece of flesh as any is in
Messina, and one that knows the law, go to; and a
rich fellow enough, go to; and a fellow that hath
had losses, and one that hath two gowns and every
thing handsome about him. Bring him away. O that
I had been writ down an ass!

14

Much Ado about Nothing
[V, 2]

Margaret

2413

Will you then write me a sonnet in praise of my beauty?