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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

Richard III
[I, 1]

Lord Hastings

142

No news so bad abroad as this at home;
The King is sickly, weak and melancholy,
And his physicians fear him mightily.

2

Richard III
[I, 1]

Richard III (Duke of Gloucester)

145

Now, by Saint Paul, this news is bad indeed.
O, he hath kept an evil diet long,
And overmuch consumed his royal person:
'Tis very grievous to be thought upon.
What, is he in his bed?

3

Richard III
[I, 2]

Richard III (Duke of Gloucester)

243

Lady, you know no rules of charity,
Which renders good for bad, blessings for curses.

4

Richard III
[I, 3]

Richard III (Duke of Gloucester)

531

I cannot tell: the world is grown so bad,
That wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch:
Since every Jack became a gentleman
There's many a gentle person made a Jack.

5

Richard III
[II, 3]

Second Citizen

1435

Bad news, by'r lady; seldom comes the better:
I fear, I fear 'twill prove a troublous world.

6

Richard III
[III, 6]

Scrivener

2186

This is the indictment of the good Lord Hastings;
Which in a set hand fairly is engross'd,
That it may be this day read over in Paul's.
And mark how well the sequel hangs together:
Eleven hours I spent to write it over,
For yesternight by Catesby was it brought me;
The precedent was full as long a-doing:
And yet within these five hours lived Lord Hastings,
Untainted, unexamined, free, at liberty
Here's a good world the while! Why who's so gross,
That seeth not this palpable device?
Yet who's so blind, but says he sees it not?
Bad is the world; and all will come to nought,
When such bad dealings must be seen in thought.

7

Richard III
[IV, 3]

Richard III (Duke of Gloucester)

2777

Good news or bad, that thou comest in so bluntly?

8

Richard III
[IV, 3]

Sir William Catesby

2778

Bad news, my lord: Ely is fled to Richmond;
And Buckingham, back'd with the hardy Welshmen,
Is in the field, and still his power increaseth.

9

Richard III
[IV, 4]

Queen Margaret

2913

Forbear to sleep the nights, and fast the days;
Compare dead happiness with living woe;
Think that thy babes were fairer than they were,
And he that slew them fouler than he is:
Bettering thy loss makes the bad causer worse:
Revolving this will teach thee how to curse.

10

Richard III
[IV, 4]

Queen Elizabeth

3020

No, to their lives bad friends were contrary.

11

Richard III
[IV, 4]

Sir William Stanley

3280

None good, my lord, to please you with the hearing;
Nor none so bad, but it may well be told.

12

Richard III
[IV, 4]

Richard III (Duke of Gloucester)

3282

Hoyday, a riddle! neither good nor bad!
Why dost thou run so many mile about,
When thou mayst tell thy tale a nearer way?
Once more, what news?