# 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

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

Moth

833

A wonder, master! here's a costard broken in a shin.

2

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

Moth

868

By saying that a costard was broken in a shin.
Then call'd you for the l'envoy.

3

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

Don Adriano de Armado

874

But tell me; how was there a costard broken in a shin?

4

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

Costard

876

Thou hast no feeling of it, Moth: I will speak that l'envoy:
I Costard, running out, that was safely within,
Fell over the threshold and broke my shin.

5

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

Costard

880

Till there be more matter in the shin.

6

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

Slender

262

I had rather walk here, I thank you. I bruised
my shin th' other day with playing at sword and
dagger with a master of fence; three veneys for a
dish of stewed prunes; and, by my troth, I cannot
abide the smell of hot meat since. Why do your
dogs bark so? be there bears i' the town?

7

Romeo and Juliet
[I, 2]

Romeo

327

For your broken shin.