#
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 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Leonato |
96 |
Signior Benedick, no; for then were you a child.
|
2 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Benedick |
111 |
Then is courtesy a turncoat. But it is certain I
am loved of all ladies, only you excepted: and I
would I could find in my heart that I had not a hard
heart; for, truly, I love none.
|
3 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Benedick |
245 |
I look for an earthquake too, then.
|
4 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Don Pedro |
288 |
What need the bridge much broader than the flood?
The fairest grant is the necessity.
Look, what will serve is fit: 'tis once, thou lovest,
And I will fit thee with the remedy.
I know we shall have revelling to-night:
I will assume thy part in some disguise
And tell fair Hero I am Claudio,
And in her bosom I'll unclasp my heart
And take her hearing prisoner with the force
And strong encounter of my amorous tale:
Then after to her father will I break;
And the conclusion is, she shall be thine.
In practise let us put it presently.
|
5 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1] |
Leonato |
408 |
Then half Signior Benedick's tongue in Count John's
mouth, and half Count John's melancholy in Signior
Benedick's face,—
|
6 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1] |
Leonato |
434 |
Well, then, go you into hell?
|
7 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1] |
Beatrice |
458 |
The fault will be in the music, cousin, if you be
not wooed in good time: if the prince be too
important, tell him there is measure in every thing
and so dance out the answer. For, hear me, Hero:
wooing, wedding, and repenting, is as a Scotch jig,
a measure, and a cinque pace: the first suit is hot
and hasty, like a Scotch jig, and full as
fantastical; the wedding, mannerly-modest, as a
measure, full of state and ancientry; and then comes
repentance and, with his bad legs, falls into the
cinque pace faster and faster, till he sink into his grave.
|
8 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1] |
Hero |
484 |
Why, then, your visor should be thatched.
|
9 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1] |
Beatrice |
522 |
Why, he is the prince's jester: a very dull fool;
only his gift is in devising impossible slanders:
none but libertines delight in him; and the
commendation is not in his wit, but in his villany;
for he both pleases men and angers them, and then
they laugh at him and beat him. I am sure he is in
the fleet: I would he had boarded me.
|
10 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1] |
Beatrice |
530 |
Do, do: he'll but break a comparison or two on me;
which, peradventure not marked or not laughed at,
strikes him into melancholy; and then there's a
partridge wing saved, for the fool will eat no
supper that night.
[Music]
We must follow the leaders.
|
11 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1] |
(stage directions) |
540 |
[Dance. Then exeunt all except DON JOHN, BORACHIO, and CLAUDIO]
|
12 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1] |
Don Pedro |
669 |
How then? sick?
|
13 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1] |
Beatrice |
710 |
No, sure, my lord, my mother cried; but then there
was a star danced, and under that was I born.
Cousins, God give you joy!
|
14 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1] |
Leonato |
717 |
There's little of the melancholy element in her, my
lord: she is never sad but when she sleeps, and
not ever sad then; for I have heard my daughter say,
she hath often dreamed of unhappiness and waked
herself with laughing.
|
15 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 2] |
Borachio |
788 |
Go, then; find me a meet hour to draw Don Pedro and
the Count Claudio alone: tell them that you know
that Hero loves me; intend a kind of zeal both to the
prince and Claudio, as,—in love of your brother's
honour, who hath made this match, and his friend's
reputation, who is thus like to be cozened with the
semblance of a maid,—that you have discovered
thus. They will scarcely believe this without trial:
offer them instances; which shall bear no less
likelihood than to see me at her chamber-window,
hear me call Margaret Hero, hear Margaret term me
Claudio; and bring them to see this the very night
before the intended wedding,—for in the meantime I
will so fashion the matter that Hero shall be
absent,—and there shall appear such seeming truth
of Hero's disloyalty that jealousy shall be called
assurance and all the preparation overthrown.
|
16 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 3] |
Balthasar |
882 |
Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more,
Men were deceivers ever,
One foot in sea and one on shore,
To one thing constant never:
Then sigh not so, but let them go,
And be you blithe and bonny,
Converting all your sounds of woe
Into Hey nonny, nonny.
Sing no more ditties, sing no moe,
Of dumps so dull and heavy;
The fraud of men was ever so,
Since summer first was leafy:
Then sigh not so, &c.
|
17 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 3] |
Claudio |
960 |
Then down upon her knees she falls, weeps, sobs,
beats her heart, tears her hair, prays, curses; 'O
sweet Benedick! God give me patience!'
|
18 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 3] |
Benedick |
1059 |
You take pleasure then in the message?
|
19 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[III, 1] |
Hero |
1107 |
Then go we near her, that her ear lose nothing
Of the false sweet bait that we lay for it.
[Approaching the bower]
No, truly, Ursula, she is too disdainful;
I know her spirits are as coy and wild
As haggerds of the rock.
|
20 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[III, 1] |
Hero |
1183 |
If it proves so, then loving goes by haps:
Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.
|