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A jest's prosperity lies in the ear
Of him that hears it, never in the tongue
Of him that makes it.

— Love's Labour's Lost, Act V Scene 2

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# 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	Two Gentlemen of Verona [I, 1]	Proteus	103	Nay: in that you are astray, 'twere best pound you.
2	Two Gentlemen of Verona [I, 3]	Panthino	332	'Twere good, I think, your lordship sent him thither: There shall he practise tilts and tournaments, Hear sweet discourse, converse with noblemen. And be in eye of every exercise Worthy his youth and nobleness of birth.
3	Two Gentlemen of Verona [II, 4]	Speed	660	'Twere good you knocked him.
4	Two Gentlemen of Verona [IV, 2]	Julia	1741	[Aside] 'Twere false, if I should speak it; For I am sure she is not buried.
5	Two Gentlemen of Verona [IV, 2]	Julia	1761	[Aside] If 'twere a substance, you would, sure, deceive it, And make it but a shadow, as I am.
6	Two Gentlemen of Verona [V, 4]	Valentine	2272	Come, come, a hand from either: Let me be blest to make this happy close; 'Twere pity two such friends should be long foes.

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