# 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

All's Well That Ends Well
[V, 2]

Parolles

2623

Nay, you need not to stop your nose, sir; I spake
but by a metaphor.

2

All's Well That Ends Well
[V, 2]

Clown

2625

Indeed, sir, if your metaphor stink, I will stop my
nose; or against any man's metaphor. Prithee, get
thee further.

3

Twelfth Night
[I, 3]

Sir Andrew Aguecheek

181

Wherefore, sweet-heart? what's your metaphor?