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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	Two Gentlemen of Verona [I, 1]	Valentine	31	To be in love, where scorn is bought with groans; Coy looks with heart-sore sighs; one fading moment's mirth With twenty watchful, weary, tedious nights: If haply won, perhaps a hapless gain; If lost, why then a grievous labour won; However, but a folly bought with wit, Or else a wit by folly vanquished.
2	Two Gentlemen of Verona [I, 1]	Speed	83	Why then, my horns are his horns, whether I wake or sleep.
3	Two Gentlemen of Verona [I, 1]	Proteus	120	Why sir, how do you bear with me?
4	Two Gentlemen of Verona [I, 1]	Proteus	130	Why, couldst thou perceive so much from her?
5	Two Gentlemen of Verona [I, 2]	Julia	170	Why not on Proteus, as of all the rest?
6	Two Gentlemen of Verona [I, 2]	Julia	177	Why he, of all the rest, hath never moved me.
7	Two Gentlemen of Verona [I, 2]	Julia	227	Why didst thou stoop, then?
8	Two Gentlemen of Verona [I, 2]	Julia	242	And why not you?
9	Two Gentlemen of Verona [I, 3]	Antonio	306	Why, what of him?
10	Two Gentlemen of Verona [I, 3]	Proteus	396	Why, this it is: my heart accords thereto, And yet a thousand times it answers 'no.'
11	Two Gentlemen of Verona [II, 1]	Speed	402	Why, then, this may be yours, for this is but one.
12	Two Gentlemen of Verona [II, 1]	Valentine	409	Why, sir, who bade you call her?
13	Two Gentlemen of Verona [II, 1]	Valentine	415	Why, how know you that I am in love?
14	Two Gentlemen of Verona [II, 1]	Speed	443	Why, sir, I know her not.
15	Two Gentlemen of Verona [II, 1]	Valentine	464	Why?
16	Two Gentlemen of Verona [II, 1]	Silvia	519	And when it's writ, for my sake read it over, And if it please you, so; if not, why, so.
17	Two Gentlemen of Verona [II, 1]	Silvia	522	Why, if it please you, take it for your labour: And so, good morrow, servant.
18	Two Gentlemen of Verona [II, 1]	Speed	538	To yourself: why, she wooes you by a figure.
19	Two Gentlemen of Verona [II, 1]	Valentine	541	Why, she hath not writ to me?
20	Two Gentlemen of Verona [II, 1]	Speed	542	What need she, when she hath made you write to yourself? Why, do you not perceive the jest?

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