# 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

As You Like It
[I, 2]

Rosalind

245

With bills on their necks: 'Be it known unto all men by
these presents'-

2

Henry VI, Part II
[IV, 7]

Dick the Butcher

2742

My lord, when shall we go to Cheapside and take up
commodities upon our bills?

3

Julius Caesar
[IV, 3]

Messala

2179

That by proscription and bills of outlawry,
Octavius, Antony, and Lepidus,
Have put to death an hundred senators.

4

Julius Caesar
[V, 2]

Brutus

2488

Ride, ride, Messala, ride, and give these bills
Unto the legions on the other side.
[Loud alarum]
Let them set on at once; for I perceive
But cold demeanor in Octavius' wing,
And sudden push gives them the overthrow.
Ride, ride, Messala: let them all come down.

5

King Lear
[IV, 6]

Lear

2697

Nature 's above art in that respect. There's your press
money. That fellow handles his bow like a crow-keeper. Draw me
a clothier's yard. Look, look, a mouse! Peace, peace; this piece
of toasted cheese will do't. There's my gauntlet; I'll prove it
on a giant. Bring up the brown bills. O, well flown, bird! i'
th' clout, i' th' clout! Hewgh! Give the word.

6

Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1]

Beatrice

35

He set up his bills here in Messina and challenged
Cupid at the flight; and my uncle's fool, reading
the challenge, subscribed for Cupid, and challenged
him at the bird-bolt. I pray you, how many hath he
killed and eaten in these wars? But how many hath
he killed? for indeed I promised to eat all of his killing.

7

Much Ado about Nothing
[III, 3]

Dogberry

1359

Why, you speak like an ancient and most quiet
watchman; for I cannot see how sleeping should
offend: only, have a care that your bills be not
stolen. Well, you are to call at all the
ale-houses, and bid those that are drunk get them to bed.

8

Much Ado about Nothing
[III, 3]

Borachio

1485

We are like to prove a goodly commodity, being taken
up of these men's bills.

9

Richard II
[III, 2]

Sir Stephen Scroop

1514

Glad am I that your highness is so arm'd
To bear the tidings of calamity.
Like an unseasonable stormy day,
Which makes the silver rivers drown their shores,
As if the world were all dissolved to tears,
So high above his limits swells the rage
Of Bolingbroke, covering your fearful land
With hard bright steel and hearts harder than steel.
White-beards have arm'd their thin and hairless scalps
Against thy majesty; boys, with women's voices,
Strive to speak big and clap their female joints
In stiff unwieldy arms against thy crown:
The very beadsmen learn to bend their bows
Of double-fatal yew against thy state;
Yea, distaff-women manage rusty bills
Against thy seat: both young and old rebel,
And all goes worse than I have power to tell.

10

Romeo and Juliet
[I, 1]

First Citizen

90

Clubs, bills, and partisans! strike! beat them down!
Down with the Capulets! down with the Montagues!

11

Taming of the Shrew
[IV, 2]

Pedant

1922

Alas, sir, it is worse for me than so!
For I have bills for money by exchange
From Florence, and must here deliver them.

12

Timon of Athens
[II, 2]

(stage directions)

667

[Enter FLAVIUS, with many bills in his hand]

13

Timon of Athens
[III, 4]

Flavius

1219

Ay,
If money were as certain as your waiting,
'Twere sure enough.
Why then preferr'd you not your sums and bills,
When your false masters eat of my lord's meat?
Then they could smile and fawn upon his debts
And take down the interest into their
gluttonous maws.
You do yourselves but wrong to stir me up;
Let me pass quietly:
Believe 't, my lord and I have made an end;
I have no more to reckon, he to spend.

14

Timon of Athens
[III, 4]

Philotus

1268

All our bills.

15

Venus and Adonis

Shakespeare

1121

'When he beheld his shadow in the brook,
The fishes spread on it their golden gills;
When he was by, the birds such pleasure took,
That some would sing, some other in their bills
Would bring him mulberries and ripe-red cherries;
He fed them with his sight, they him with berries.