# 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

Tempest
[I, 2]

Prospero

152

Thy mother was a piece of virtue, and
She said thou wast my daughter; and thy father
Was Duke of Milan; and thou his only heir
And princess no worse issued.

2

Tempest
[II, 1]

Sebastian

780

What if he had said 'widower AEneas' too? Good Lord,
how you take it!

3

Tempest
[II, 1]

Adrian

782

'Widow Dido' said you? you make me study of that:
she was of Carthage, not of Tunis.

4

Tempest
[II, 2]

Stephano

1148

What's the matter? Have we devils here? Do you put
tricks upon's with savages and men of Ind, ha? I
have not scaped drowning to be afeard now of your
four legs; for it hath been said, As proper a man as
ever went on four legs cannot make him give ground;
and it shall be said so again while Stephano
breathes at's nostrils.

5

Tempest
[III, 2]

Trinculo

1443

Why, I said nothing.

6

Tempest
[III, 3]

Prospero

1602

[Aside] Honest lord,
Thou hast said well; for some of you there present
Are worse than devils.

7

Tempest
[V, 1]

Ariel

2019

On the sixth hour; at which time, my lord,
You said our work should cease.