# 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

King Lear
[IV, 6]

Edgar

2689

Bear free and patient thoughts.
Enter Lear, mad, [fantastically dressed with weeds].
But who comes here?
The safer sense will ne'er accommodate
His master thus.

2

Merchant of Venice
[IV, 1]

(stage directions)

2052

[Enter NERISSA, dressed like a lawyer's clerk]

3

Merchant of Venice
[IV, 1]

Duke

2103

You hear the learn'd Bellario, what he writes:
And here, I take it, is the doctor come.
[Enter PORTIA, dressed like a doctor of laws]
Give me your hand. Come you from old Bellario?

4

Taming of the Shrew
[IV, 4]

(stage directions)

2157

Enter TRANIO as LUCENTIO, and the PEDANT dressed like VINCENTIO

5

Titus Andronicus
[V, 3]

Saturninus

2553

Marcus, we will.
[Hautboys sound. The Company sit down at table]
[Enter TITUS dressed like a Cook, LAVINIA veiled,]
Young LUCIUS, and others. TITUS places the dishes
on the table]

6

Twelfth Night
[II, 5]

Fabian

1137

What dish o' poison has she dressed him!

7

Twelfth Night
[V, 1]

Sir Andrew Aguecheek

2402

I'll help you, Sir Toby, because well be dressed together.