# 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."

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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.

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1

King Lear
[V, 1]

Edgar

3072

Before you fight the battle, ope this letter.
If you have victory, let the trumpet sound
For him that brought it. Wretched though I seem,
I can produce a champion that will prove
What is avouched there. If you miscarry,
Your business of the world hath so an end,
And machination ceases. Fortune love you!

2

King Lear
[V, 3]

Duke of Albany

3227

Thou art arm'd, Gloucester. Let the trumpet sound.
If none appear to prove upon thy person
Thy heinous, manifest, and many treasons,
There is my pledge [throws down a glove]! I'll prove it on thy
heart,
Ere I taste bread, thou art in nothing less
Than I have here proclaim'd thee.

3

King Lear
[V, 3]

Edmund

3236

There's my exchange [throws down a glove]. What in the world
he is
That names me traitor, villain-like he lies.
Call by thy trumpet. He that dares approach,
On him, on you, who not? I will maintain
My truth and honour firmly.

4

King Lear
[V, 3]

Duke of Albany

3248

She is not well. Convey her to my tent.
[Exit Regan, led. Enter a Herald.]
Come hither, herald. Let the trumpet sound,
And read out this.

5

King Lear
[V, 3]

Captain

3252

Sound, trumpet! A trumpet sounds.

6

King Lear
[V, 3]

Herald

3253

[reads] 'If any man of quality or degree within the lists of
the army will maintain upon Edmund, supposed Earl of Gloucester,
that he is a manifold traitor, let him appear by the third sound
of the trumpet. He is bold in his defence.'

7

King Lear
[V, 3]

Edmund

3257

Sound! First trumpet.

8

King Lear
[V, 3]

Herald

3258

Again! Second trumpet.

9

King Lear
[V, 3]

Herald

3259

Again! Third trumpet.

10

King Lear
[V, 3]

(stage directions)

3260

Trumpet answers within.

11

King Lear
[V, 3]

(stage directions)

3261

Enter Edgar, armed, at the third sound, a Trumpet before him.

12

King Lear
[V, 3]

Duke of Albany

3262

Ask him his purposes, why he appears
Upon this call o' th' trumpet.