# 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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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.

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1

All's Well That Ends Well
[IV, 1]

Second Lord

1994

Go, tell the Count Rousillon, and my brother,
We have caught the woodcock, and will keep him muffled
Till we do hear from them.

2

Hamlet
[V, 2]

Laertes

3962

Why, as a woodcock to mine own springe, Osric.I am justly kill'd with mine own treachery.

3

Henry VI, Part III
[I, 4]

Lord Clifford

500

Ay, ay, so strives the woodcock with the gin.

4

Much Ado about Nothing
[V, 1]

Claudio

2229

I' faith, I thank him; he hath bid me to a calf's
head and a capon; the which if I do not carve most
curiously, say my knife's naught. Shall I not find
a woodcock too?

5

Taming of the Shrew
[I, 2]

Grumio

708

O this woodcock, what an ass it is!

6

Twelfth Night
[II, 5]

Fabian

1108

Now is the woodcock near the gin.

7

Twelfth Night
[IV, 2]

Feste

2073

Fare thee well. Remain thou still in darkness:
thou shalt hold the opinion of Pythagoras ere I will
allow of thy wits, and fear to kill a woodcock, lest
thou dispossess the soul of thy grandam. Fare thee well.