# 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

Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1]

Leonato

425

You may light on a husband that hath no beard.

2

Much Ado about Nothing
[III, 4]

Margaret

1517

Of what, lady? of speaking honourably? Is not
marriage honourable in a beggar? Is not your lord
honourable without marriage? I think you would have
me say, 'saving your reverence, a husband:' and bad
thinking do not wrest true speaking, I'll offend
nobody: is there any harm in 'the heavier for a
husband'? None, I think, and it be the right husband
and the right wife; otherwise 'tis light, and not
heavy: ask my Lady Beatrice else; here she comes.

3

Much Ado about Nothing
[III, 4]

Margaret

1531

Clap's into 'Light o' love;' that goes without a
burden: do you sing it, and I'll dance it.

4

Much Ado about Nothing
[III, 4]

Beatrice

1533

Ye light o' love, with your heels! then, if your
husband have stables enough, you'll see he shall
lack no barns.

5

Much Ado about Nothing
[IV, 1]

Don John

1756

Come, let us go. These things, come thus to light,
Smother her spirits up.

6

Much Ado about Nothing
[V, 1]

Don Pedro

2216

By this light, he changes more and more: I think
he be angry indeed.

7

Much Ado about Nothing
[V, 1]

Borachio

2302

Sweet prince, let me go no farther to mine answer:
do you hear me, and let this count kill me. I have
deceived even your very eyes: what your wisdoms
could not discover, these shallow fools have brought
to light: who in the night overheard me confessing
to this man how Don John your brother incensed me
to slander the Lady Hero, how you were brought into
the orchard and saw me court Margaret in Hero's
garments, how you disgraced her, when you should
marry her: my villany they have upon record; which
I had rather seal with my death than repeat over
to my shame. The lady is dead upon mine and my
master's false accusation; and, briefly, I desire
nothing but the reward of a villain.

8

Much Ado about Nothing
[V, 4]

Benedick

2645

A miracle! here's our own hands against our hearts.
Come, I will have thee; but, by this light, I take
thee for pity.