# 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."

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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 II
[III, 1]

Winchester

1335

Did he not, contrary to form of law,
Devise strange deaths for small offences done?

2

Henry VI, Part II
[III, 1]

Richard Plantagenet (Duke of Gloucester)

1401

In your protectorship you did devise
Strange tortures for offenders never heard of,
That England was defamed by tyranny.

3

Henry VI, Part II
[IV, 8]

Duke of Buckingham

2823

What, is he fled? Go some, and follow him;
And he that brings his head unto the king
Shall have a thousand crowns for his reward.
[Exeunt some of them]
Follow me, soldiers: we'll devise a mean
To reconcile you all unto the king.