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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]

Leonato

6

How many gentlemen have you lost in this action?

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

28

I pray you, is Signior Mountanto returned from the
wars or no?

4

Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1]

Leonato

32

What is he that you ask for, niece?

5

Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1]

Beatrice

35

He set up his bills here in Messina and challenged
Cupid at the flight; and my uncle's fool, reading
the challenge, subscribed for Cupid, and challenged
him at the bird-bolt. I pray you, how many hath he
killed and eaten in these wars? But how many hath
he killed? for indeed I promised to eat all of his killing.

6

Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1]

Leonato

41

Faith, niece, you tax Signior Benedick too much;
but he'll be meet with you, I doubt it not.

7

Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1]

Beatrice

44

You had musty victual, and he hath holp to eat it:
he is a very valiant trencherman; he hath an
excellent stomach.

8

Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1]

Leonato

53

You must not, sir, mistake my niece. There is a
kind of merry war betwixt Signior Benedick and her:
they never meet but there's a skirmish of wit
between them.

9

Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1]

Beatrice

70

No; an he were, I would burn my study. But, I pray
you, who is his companion? Is there no young
squarer now that will make a voyage with him to the devil?

10

Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1]

Messenger

79

I will hold friends with you, lady.

11

Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1]

Leonato

81

You will never run mad, niece.

12

Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1]

Don Pedro

85

Good Signior Leonato, you are come to meet your
trouble: the fashion of the world is to avoid
cost, and you encounter it.

13

Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1]

Leonato

88

Never came trouble to my house in the likeness of
your grace: for trouble being gone, comfort should
remain; but when you depart from me, sorrow abides
and happiness takes his leave.

14

Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1]

Don Pedro

92

You embrace your charge too willingly. I think this
is your daughter.

15

Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1]

Benedick

95

Were you in doubt, sir, that you asked her?

16

Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1]

Leonato

96

Signior Benedick, no; for then were you a child.

17

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.

18

Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1]

Beatrice

104

I wonder that you will still be talking, Signior
Benedick: nobody marks you.

19

Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1]

Benedick

106

What, my dear Lady Disdain! are you yet living?

20

Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1]

Beatrice

107

Is it possible disdain should die while she hath
such meet food to feed it as Signior Benedick?
Courtesy itself must convert to disdain, if you come
in her presence.