# Result number

Work The work is either a play, poem, or sonnet. The sonnets are treated as single work with 154 parts.

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1

Henry VI, Part II
[I, 3]

Duke of Gloucester

619

Sirrah, or you must fight, or else be hang'd.

2

Henry VI, Part II
[II, 1]

Duke of Gloucester

863

Tell me, sirrah, what's my name?

3

Henry VI, Part II
[II, 1]

Mayor of Saint Alban's

885

Sirrah, go fetch the beadle hither straight.

4

Henry VI, Part II
[II, 1]

Duke of Gloucester

887

Now fetch me a stool hither by and by. Now, sirrah,
if you mean to save yourself from whipping, leap me
over this stool and run away.

5

Henry VI, Part II
[II, 1]

Duke of Gloucester

893

Well, sir, we must have you find your legs. Sirrah
beadle, whip him till he leap over that same stool.

6

Henry VI, Part II
[II, 1]

Beadle

895

I will, my lord. Come on, sirrah; off with your
doublet quickly.

7

Henry VI, Part II
[II, 3]

Earl of Salisbury

1127

Come, leave your drinking, and fall to blows.
Sirrah, what's thy name?

8

Henry VI, Part II
[IV, 2]

Jack Cade

2396

I am sorry for't: the man is a proper man, of mine
honour; unless I find him guilty, he shall not die.
Come hither, sirrah, I must examine thee: what is thy name?

9

Henry VI, Part II
[IV, 2]

Jack Cade

2461

[Aside] He lies, for I invented it myself.
Go to, sirrah, tell the king from me, that, for his
father's sake, Henry the Fifth, in whose time boys
went to span-counter for French crowns, I am content
he shall reign; but I'll be protector over him.

10

Henry VI, Part II
[V, 1]

Richard Plantagenet (Duke of Gloucester)

3092

Wouldst have me kneel? first let me ask of these,
If they can brook I bow a knee to man.
Sirrah, call in my sons to be my bail;
[Exit Attendant]
I know, ere they will have me go to ward,
They'll pawn their swords for my enfranchisement.