# 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

All's Well That Ends Well
[V, 2]

Clown

2619

Truly, fortune's displeasure is but sluttish, if it
smell so strongly as thou speakest of: I will
henceforth eat no fish of fortune's buttering.
Prithee, allow the wind.

2

Henry IV, Part I
[I, 2]

Falstaff

255

Well, God give thee the spirit of persuasion and him
the ears of profiting, that what thou speakest may
move and what he hears may be believed, that the
true prince may, for recreation sake, prove a false
thief; for the poor abuses of the time want
countenance. Farewell: you shall find me in Eastcheap.

3

Henry VIII
[V, 5]

Henry VIII

3440

Thou speakest wonders.

4

Love's Labour's Lost
[II, 1]

Rosaline

755

Thou art an old love-monger and speakest skilfully.

5

Romeo and Juliet
[III, 5]

Juliet

2343

Speakest thou from thy heart?

6

Twelfth Night
[I, 5]

Feste

387

Now Mercury endue thee with leasing, for thou
speakest well of fools!