# 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

Romeo and Juliet
[II, 4]

Mercutio

1228

Nay, if thy wits run the wild-goose chase, I have
done, for thou hast more of the wild-goose in one of
thy wits than, I am sure, I have in my whole five:
was I with you there for the goose?

2

Romeo and Juliet
[II, 4]

Romeo

1232

Thou wast never with me for any thing when thou wast
not there for the goose.

3

Romeo and Juliet
[II, 4]

Romeo

1235

Nay, good goose, bite not.

4

Romeo and Juliet
[II, 4]

Romeo

1238

And is it not well served in to a sweet goose?

5

Romeo and Juliet
[II, 4]

Romeo

1241

I stretch it out for that word 'broad;' which added
to the goose, proves thee far and wide a broad goose.