# 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

Midsummer Night's Dream
[I, 1]

Theseus

2

Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour
Draws on apace; four happy days bring in
Another moon: but, O, methinks, how slow
This old moon wanes! she lingers my desires,
Like to a step-dame or a dowager
Long withering out a young man revenue.

2

Midsummer Night's Dream
[III, 1]

Bottom

964

Methinks, mistress, you should have little reason
for that: and yet, to say the truth, reason and
love keep little company together now-a-days; the
more the pity that some honest neighbours will not
make them friends. Nay, I can gleek upon occasion.

3

Midsummer Night's Dream
[III, 1]

Titania

1022

Come, wait upon him; lead him to my bower.
The moon methinks looks with a watery eye;
And when she weeps, weeps every little flower,
Lamenting some enforced chastity.
Tie up my love's tongue bring him silently.

4

Midsummer Night's Dream
[IV, 1]

Bottom

1566

Nothing, good mounsieur, but to help Cavalery Cobweb
to scratch. I must to the barber's, monsieur; for
methinks I am marvellous hairy about the face; and I
am such a tender ass, if my hair do but tickle me,
I must scratch.

5

Midsummer Night's Dream
[IV, 1]

Bottom

1576

Truly, a peck of provender: I could munch your good
dry oats. Methinks I have a great desire to a bottle
of hay: good hay, sweet hay, hath no fellow.

6

Midsummer Night's Dream
[IV, 1]

Hermia

1747

Methinks I see these things with parted eye,
When every thing seems double.

7

Midsummer Night's Dream
[IV, 1]

Helena

1749

So methinks:
And I have found Demetrius like a jewel,
Mine own, and not mine own.

8

Midsummer Night's Dream
[V, 1]

Theseus

2026

The wall, methinks, being sensible, should curse again.

9

Midsummer Night's Dream
[V, 1]

Hippolyta

2162

Methinks she should not use a long one for such a
Pyramus: I hope she will be brief.