# 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 III
[I, 4]

Lord Clifford

478

So cowards fight when they can fly no further;
So doves do peck the falcon's piercing talons;
So desperate thieves, all hopeless of their lives,
Breathe out invectives 'gainst the officers.

2

Henry VI, Part III
[III, 3]

King Lewis XI

1803

Queen Margaret, Prince Edward, and Oxford,
Vouchsafe, at our request, to stand aside,
While I use further conference with Warwick.

3

Henry VI, Part III
[III, 3]

King Lewis XI

1814

Then further, all dissembling set aside,
Tell me for truth the measure of his love
Unto our sister Bona.

4

Henry VI, Part III
[IV, 1]

Richard III (Duke of Gloucester)

2102

[Aside] Not I:
My thoughts aim at a further matter; I
Stay not for the love of Edward, but the crown.

5

Henry VI, Part III
[IV, 4]

Queen Elizabeth

2249

Ay, almost slain, for he is taken prisoner,
Either betray'd by falsehood of his guard
Or by his foe surprised at unawares:
And, as I further have to understand,
Is new committed to the Bishop of York,
Fell Warwick's brother and by that our foe.