# 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

Coriolanus
[II, 1]

Sicinius Velutus

1164

He cannot temperately transport his honours
From where he should begin and end, but will
Lose those he hath won.

2

Coriolanus
[III, 1]

Menenius Agrippa

2000

[To BRUTUS] Be that you seem, truly your
country's friend,
And temperately proceed to what you would
Thus violently redress.

3

Coriolanus
[III, 3]

Menenius Agrippa

2430

Nay, temperately; your promise.