# 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

Henry VI, Part II
[I, 1]

Duke of Gloucester

139

A proper jest, and never heard before,
That Suffolk should demand a whole fifteenth
For costs and charges in transporting her!
She should have stayed in France and starved
in France, Before—

2

Henry VI, Part II
[I, 3]

Second Petitioner

412

Alas, sir, I am but a poor petitioner of our whole township.

3

Henry VI, Part II
[II, 1]

Duke of Gloucester

909

But you have done more miracles than I;
You made in a day, my lord, whole towns to fly.

4

Henry VI, Part II
[III, 1]

Richard Plantagenet (Duke of Gloucester)

1581

No, not to lose it all, as thou hast done:
I rather would have lost my life betimes
Than bring a burthen of dishonour home
By staying there so long till all were lost.
Show me one scar character'd on thy skin:
Men's flesh preserved so whole do seldom win.

5

Henry VI, Part II
[IV, 7]

John Holland

2628

[Aside] Mass, 'twill be sore law, then; for he was
thrust in the mouth with a spear, and 'tis not whole
yet.