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KEYWORD: tedious

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# 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	Richard III [I, 4]	Second Murderer	923	O sir, it is better to be brief than tedious. Show him our commission; talk no more.
2	Richard III [III, 1]	Prince Edward	1570	No, uncle; but our crosses on the way Have made it tedious, wearisome, and heavy I want more uncles here to welcome me.
3	Richard III [III, 2]	Lord Hastings	1785	Cannot thy master sleep these tedious nights?
4	Richard III [IV, 4]	Duchess of York	2818	Blind sight, dead life, poor mortal living ghost, Woe's scene, world's shame, grave's due by life usurp'd, Brief abstract and record of tedious days, Rest thy unrest on England's lawful earth, [Sitting down] Unlawfully made drunk with innocents' blood!