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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]

Messenger

7

But few of any sort, and none of name.

2

Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1]

Messenger

30

I know none of that name, lady: there was none such
in the army of any sort.

3

Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1]

Benedick

214

That a woman conceived me, I thank her; that she
brought me up, I likewise give her most humble
thanks: but that I will have a recheat winded in my
forehead, or hang my bugle in an invisible baldrick,
all women shall pardon me. Because I will not do
them the wrong to mistrust any, I will do myself the
right to trust none; and the fine is, for the which
I may go the finer, I will live a bachelor.

4

Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1]

Benedick

255

Nay, mock not, mock not. The body of your
discourse is sometime guarded with fragments, and
the guards are but slightly basted on neither: ere
you flout old ends any further, examine your
conscience: and so I leave you.

5

Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1]

Don Pedro

262

My love is thine to teach: teach it but how,
And thou shalt see how apt it is to learn
Any hard lesson that may do thee good.

6

Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1]

Claudio

265

Hath Leonato any son, my lord?

7

Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 2]

Leonato

317

Hath the fellow any wit that told you this?

8

Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 3]

Don John

353

I had rather be a canker in a hedge than a rose in
his grace, and it better fits my blood to be
disdained of all than to fashion a carriage to rob
love from any: in this, though I cannot be said to
be a flattering honest man, it must not be denied
but I am a plain-dealing villain. I am trusted with
a muzzle and enfranchised with a clog; therefore I
have decreed not to sing in my cage. If I had my
mouth, I would bite; if I had my liberty, I would do
my liking: in the meantime let me be that I am and
seek not to alter me.

9

Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 3]

Don John

372

Will it serve for any model to build mischief on?
What is he for a fool that betroths himself to
unquietness?

10

Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 3]

Don John

388

Come, come, let us thither: this may prove food to
my displeasure. That young start-up hath all the
glory of my overthrow: if I can cross him any way, I
bless myself every way. You are both sure, and will assist me?

11

Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1]

Beatrice

411

With a good leg and a good foot, uncle, and money
enough in his purse, such a man would win any woman
in the world, if a' could get her good-will.

12

Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1]

Beatrice

538

Nay, if they lead to any ill, I will leave them at
the next turning.

13

Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1]

Benedick

644

Will your grace command me any service to the
world's end? I will go on the slightest errand now
to the Antipodes that you can devise to send me on;
I will fetch you a tooth-picker now from the
furthest inch of Asia, bring you the length of
Prester John's foot, fetch you a hair off the great
Cham's beard, do you any embassage to the Pigmies,
rather than hold three words' conference with this
harpy. You have no employment for me?

14

Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1]

Hero

746

I will do any modest office, my lord, to help my
cousin to a good husband.

15

Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 2]

Don John

764

Any bar, any cross, any impediment will be
medicinable to me: I am sick in displeasure to him,
and whatsoever comes athwart his affection ranges
evenly with mine. How canst thou cross this marriage?

16

Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 2]

Borachio

775

I can, at any unseasonable instant of the night,
appoint her to look out at her lady's chamber window.

17

Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 2]

Borachio

784

Proof enough to misuse the prince, to vex Claudio,
to undo Hero and kill Leonato. Look you for any
other issue?

18

Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 2]

Don John

787

Only to despite them, I will endeavour any thing.

19

Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 3]

Balthasar

860

O, good my lord, tax not so bad a voice
To slander music any more than once.

20

Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 3]

Claudio

912

O, ay: stalk on. stalk on; the fowl sits. I did
never think that lady would have loved any man.