# 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

Henry VI, Part I
[III, 1]

Duke/Earl of Somerset

1275

My lord, it were your duty to forbear.

2

Henry VI, Part I
[III, 1]

Duke of Gloucester

1334

Stay, stay, I say!
And if you love me, as you say you do,
Let me persuade you to forbear awhile.

3

Henry VI, Part I
[IV, 7]

Charles, King of France

2304

O, no, forbear! for that which we have fled
During the life, let us not wrong it dead.
[Enter Sir William LUCY, attended; Herald of the]
French preceding]