Create

Random

0

0

Statistics for First Line of Shakespeare's Comedies

Click here to take the quiz!

General Stats
Answer Stats
Score Distribution
Your Score History

General Stats

This quiz has been taken 44 times
The average score is 6 of 17

Answer Stats

First Line(s)	Comedy	% Correct
I learn in this letter that Don Pedro of Arragon comes this night to Messina. / He is very near by this: he was not three leagues off when I left him.	Much Ado About Nothing	82%
Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour Draws on apace; four happy days bring in Another moon; but oh, methinks, how slow This old moon wanes! She lingers my desires, Like to a step-dame or a dowager, Long withering out a young man’s revenue.	A Midsummer Night's Dream	76%
Boatswain! / Here, master: what cheer? / Good, speak to the mariners: fall to’t, yarely, or we run ourselves aground: bestir, bestir.	The Tempest	65%
Proceed, Solinus, to procure my fall, And by the doom of death end woes and all. / Merchant of Syracusa, plead no more; I am not partial to infringe our laws:	The Comedy of Errors	59%
In sooth I know not why I am so sad, It wearies me. you say it wearies you; But how I caught it, found it, or came by it, What stuff ’tis made of, whereof it is born, I am to learn. And such a want-wit sadness makes of me, That I have much ado to know myself.	The Merchant of Venice	53%
Sir Hugh, persuade me not; I will make a Star-chamber matter of it: if he were twenty Sir John Falstaffs, he shall not abuse Robert Shallow, esquire.	The Merry Wives of Windsor	53%
If Musicke be the food of Loue, play on, Giue me excesse of it: that surfetting, The appetite may sicken, and so dye. That straine agen, it had a dying fall:	Twelfth Night	47%
As I remember, Adam, it was upon this fashion,—bequeathed me by will but poor a thousand crowns, and, as thou say'st, charged my brother, on his blessing, to breed me well: and there begins my sadness.	As You Like It	35%
In delivering my son from me, I bury a second husband. / And I in going, madam, weep o'er my father's death anew; but I must attend his Majesty's command, to whom I am now in ward, evermore in subjection.	All's Well that Ends Well	24%
Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives, Live regist'red upon our brazen tombs, And then grace us in the disgrace of death; When, spite of cormorant devouring Time, Th' endeavour of this present breath may buy That honour which shall bate his scythe's keen edge, And make us heirs of all eternity.	Love's Labour's Lost	24%
Escalus. / My lord. / Of government the properties to unfold, Would seem in me to affect speech and discourse;	Measure for Measure	24%
If you shall chance, Camillo, to visit Bohemia, on the like occasion whereon my services are now on foot, you shall see, as I have said, great difference betwixt our Bohemia and your Sicilia.	The Winter's Tale	24%
You do not meet a man but frowns; our bloods No more obey the heavens than our courtiers Still seem as does the King's.	Cymbeline	18%
Cease to persuade, my loving Proteus: Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits. Were’t not affection chains thy tender days To the sweet glances of thy honour’d love, I rather would entreat thy company To see the wonders of the world abroad, Than, living dully sluggardized at home, Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness. But since thou lovest, love still, and thrive therein, Even as I would, when I to love begin.	The Two Gentlemen of Verona	18%
I’ll pheeze you, in faith. / A pair of stocks, you rogue!	The Taming of the Shrew	12%
To sing a song that old was sung, From ashes ancient Gower is come; Assuming man’s infirmities, To glad your ear, and please your eyes. It hath been sung at festivals, On ember-eves and holy-ales;	Pericles, Prince of Tyre	6%
New Playes, and Maydenheads, are neare a kin, Much follow'd both, for both much mony g'yn, If they stand sound, and well: And a good Play (Whose modest Sceanes blush on his marriage day, And shake to loose his honour) is like hir That after holy Tye and first nights stir Yet still is Modestie, and still retaines More of the maid to sight, than Husbands paines;	The Two Noble Kinsmen	6%

Score Distribution

Percentile by Number Answered

Percent of People with Each Score

Your Score History

You have not taken this quiz

Countries of the World Quiz

U.S. Presidents Quiz

US States by Borders in 30 Seconds

All Country Flags of the World

World Capitals Quiz

Countries by First Two Letters in 90 Seconds

World Map with Random Merged Countries

Countries of South America

40 Historical People that Everyone Should Know

Countries that Start with N

2024 English Premier League Teams

Countries that Start with K

Save Your Progress