# 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

Antony and Cleopatra
[II, 7]

Octavius

1492

I could well forbear't.
It's monstrous labour, when I wash my brain,
And it grows fouler.

2

Henry VI, Part II
[I, 3]

Earl of Warwick

572

That can I witness; and a fouler fact
Did never traitor in the land commit.

3

Measure for Measure
[II, 4]

Isabella

1174

I know your virtue hath a licence in't,
Which seems a little fouler than it is,
To pluck on others.

4

Othello
[IV, 1]

Iago

2634

That's fouler.

5

Rape of Lucrece

Shakespeare

710

'So shall these slaves be king, and thou their slave;
Thou nobly base, they basely dignified;
Thou their fair life, and they thy fouler grave:
Thou loathed in their shame, they in thy pride:
The lesser thing should not the greater hide;
The cedar stoops not to the base shrub's foot,
But low shrubs wither at the cedar's root.

6

Richard III
[I, 2]

Lady Anne

258

Fouler than heart can think thee, thou canst make
No excuse current, but to hang thyself.

7

Richard III
[I, 2]

Lady Anne

332

Never hung poison on a fouler toad.
Out of my sight! thou dost infect my eyes.

8

Richard III
[IV, 4]

Queen Margaret

2913

Forbear to sleep the nights, and fast the days;
Compare dead happiness with living woe;
Think that thy babes were fairer than they were,
And he that slew them fouler than he is:
Bettering thy loss makes the bad causer worse:
Revolving this will teach thee how to curse.

9

Taming of the Shrew
[V, 2]

Petruchio

2602

The fouler fortune mine, and there an end.