# 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.

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1

Henry VI, Part II
[IV, 1]

Second Gentleman

2175

And so will I and write home for it straight.

2

Henry VI, Part II
[IV, 2]

Smith the Weaver

2388

The clerk of Chatham: he can write and read and
cast accompt.

3

Henry VI, Part II
[IV, 2]

Dick the Butcher

2395

Nay, he can make obligations, and write court-hand.

4

Henry VI, Part II
[IV, 2]

Dick the Butcher

2400

They use to write it on the top of letters: 'twill
go hard with you.

5

Henry VI, Part II
[IV, 2]

Jack Cade

2402

Let me alone. Dost thou use to write thy name? or
hast thou a mark to thyself, like an honest
plain-dealing man?

6

Henry VI, Part II
[IV, 2]

Clerk of Chatham

2405

Sir, I thank God, I have been so well brought up
that I can write my name.

7

Henry VI, Part II
[V, 1]

Lord Clifford

3188

I am resolved to bear a greater storm
Than any thou canst conjure up to-day;
And that I'll write upon thy burgonet,
Might I but know thee by thy household badge.