# 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

Measure for Measure
[II, 1]

Escalus

679

There are pretty orders beginning, I can tell you:
it is but heading and hanging.

2

Measure for Measure
[IV, 2]

Pompey

1915

Pray, sir, by your good favour,—for surely, sir, a
good favour you have, but that you have a hanging
look,—do you call, sir, your occupation a mystery?

3

Measure for Measure
[IV, 2]

Pompey

1919

Painting, sir, I have heard say, is a mystery; and
your whores, sir, being members of my occupation,
using painting, do prove my occupation a mystery:
but what mystery there should be in hanging, if I
should be hanged, I cannot imagine.

4

Measure for Measure
[V, 1]

Lucio

2777

This may prove worse than hanging.

5

Measure for Measure
[V, 1]

Lucio

2967

Marrying a punk, my lord, is pressing to death,
whipping, and hanging.