# Result number

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

Antony and Cleopatra
[I, 1]

Antony

53

But stirr'd by Cleopatra.
Now, for the love of Love and her soft hours,
Let's not confound the time with conference harsh:
There's not a minute of our lives should stretch
Without some pleasure now. What sport tonight?

2

Antony and Cleopatra
[II, 2]

Lepidus

681

Good Enobarbus, 'tis a worthy deed,
And shall become you well, to entreat your captain
To soft and gentle speech.

3

Antony and Cleopatra
[II, 2]

Lepidus

787

Soft, Caesar!

4

Antony and Cleopatra
[II, 6]

Antony

1273

The beds i' the east are soft; and thanks to you,
That call'd me timelier than my purpose hither;
For I have gain'd by 't.

5

Antony and Cleopatra
[II, 7]

Antony

1504

Come, let's all take hands,
Till that the conquering wine hath steep'd our sense
In soft and delicate Lethe.

6

Antony and Cleopatra
[V, 2]

Cleopatra

3776

As sweet as balm, as soft as air, as gentle,—
O Antony!—Nay, I will take thee too.
[Applying another asp to her arm]
What should I stay—