# 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

Love's Labour's Lost
[I, 1]

Costard

279

Sir, I confess the wench.

2

Love's Labour's Lost
[I, 1]

Costard

281

I do confess much of the hearing it but little of
the marking of it.

3

Love's Labour's Lost
[I, 2]

Don Adriano de Armado

346

I confess both: they are both the varnish of a
complete man.

4

Love's Labour's Lost
[I, 2]

Don Adriano de Armado

360

I will hereupon confess I am in love: and as it is
base for a soldier to love, so am I in love with a
base wench. If drawing my sword against the humour
of affection would deliver me from the reprobate
thought of it, I would take Desire prisoner, and
ransom him to any French courtier for a new-devised
courtesy. I think scorn to sigh: methinks I should
outswear Cupid. Comfort, me, boy: what great men
have been in love?

5

Love's Labour's Lost
[II, 1]

Princess of France

643

You do the king my father too much wrong
And wrong the reputation of your name,
In so unseeming to confess receipt
Of that which hath so faithfully been paid.

6

Love's Labour's Lost
[IV, 3]

Biron

1544

[To COSTARD] Ah, you whoreson loggerhead! you were
born to do me shame.
Guilty, my lord, guilty! I confess, I confess.

7

Love's Labour's Lost
[V, 2]

Dumain

2312

Let us confess and turn it to a jest.