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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

4

He is very near by this: he was not three leagues off
when I left him.

2

Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1]

Messenger

11

Much deserved on his part and equally remembered by
Don Pedro: he hath borne himself beyond the
promise of his age, doing, in the figure of a lamb,
the feats of a lion: he hath indeed better
bettered expectation than you must expect of me to
tell you how.

3

Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1]

Beatrice

57

Alas! he gets nothing by that. In our last
conflict four of his five wits went halting off, and
now is the whole man governed with one: so that if
he have wit enough to keep himself warm, let him
bear it for a difference between himself and his
horse; for it is all the wealth that he hath left,
to be known a reasonable creature. Who is his
companion now? He hath every month a new sworn brother.

4

Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1]

Don Pedro

97

You have it full, Benedick: we may guess by this
what you are, being a man. Truly, the lady fathers
herself. Be happy, lady; for you are like an
honourable father.

5

Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1]

Don Pedro

202

By my troth, I speak my thought.

6

Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1]

Benedick

204

And, by my two faiths and troths, my lord, I spoke mine.

7

Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1]

Claudio

284

How sweetly you do minister to love,
That know love's grief by his complexion!
But lest my liking might too sudden seem,
I would have salved it with a longer treatise.

8

Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 2]

Antonio

308

As the event stamps them: but they have a good
cover; they show well outward. The prince and Count
Claudio, walking in a thick-pleached alley in mine
orchard, were thus much overheard by a man of mine:
the prince discovered to Claudio that he loved my
niece your daughter and meant to acknowledge it
this night in a dance: and if he found her
accordant, he meant to take the present time by the
top and instantly break with you of it.

9

Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 3]

Conrade

346

Yea, but you must not make the full show of this
till you may do it without controlment. You have of
late stood out against your brother, and he hath
ta'en you newly into his grace; where it is
impossible you should take true root but by the
fair weather that you make yourself: it is needful
that you frame the season for your own harvest.

10

Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 3]

Borachio

369

I came yonder from a great supper: the prince your
brother is royally entertained by Leonato: and I
can give you intelligence of an intended marriage.

11

Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1]

Leonato

414

By my troth, niece, thou wilt never get thee a
husband, if thou be so shrewd of thy tongue.

12

Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1]

Leonato

420

So, by being too curst, God will send you no horns.

13

Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1]

Antonio

442

[To HERO] Well, niece, I trust you will be ruled
by your father.

14

Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1]

Beatrice

470

I have a good eye, uncle; I can see a church by daylight.

15

Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1]

Ursula

500

I know you by the waggling of your head.

16

Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1]

Ursula

506

Come, come, do you think I do not know you by your
excellent wit? can virtue hide itself? Go to,
mum, you are he: graces will appear, and there's an
end.

17

Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1]

Borachio

544

And that is Claudio: I know him by his bearing.

18

Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1]

Benedick

615

If their singing answer your saying, by my faith,
you say honestly.

19

Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1]

Don Pedro

617

The Lady Beatrice hath a quarrel to you: the
gentleman that danced with her told her she is much
wronged by you.

20

Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1]

Beatrice

699

I would rather have one of your father's getting.
Hath your grace ne'er a brother like you? Your
father got excellent husbands, if a maid could come by them.