# 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

Twelfth Night
[I, 5]

Sir Toby Belch

416

Lechery! I defy lechery. There's one at the gate.

2

Twelfth Night
[III, 4]

Sir Toby Belch

1642

Go to, go to; peace, peace; we must deal gently
with him: let me alone. How do you, Malvolio? how
is't with you? What, man! defy the devil:
consider, he's an enemy to mankind.

3

Twelfth Night
[III, 4]

Antonio

1860

Put up your sword. If this young gentleman
Have done offence, I take the fault on me:
If you offend him, I for him defy you.