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# 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	King Lear [III, 6]	Edgar	2034	The foul fiend haunts poor Tom in the voice of a nightingale. Hoppedance cries in Tom's belly for two white herring. Croak not, black angel; I have no food for thee.
2	King Lear [IV, 6]	Earl of Gloucester	2605	So may it be indeed. Methinks thy voice is alter'd, and thou speak'st In better phrase and matter than thou didst.
3	King Lear [IV, 6]	Earl of Gloucester	2705	I know that voice.
4	King Lear [IV, 6]	Earl of Gloucester	2714	The trick of that voice I do well remember. Is't not the King?
5	King Lear [V, 3]	Lear	3450	A plague upon you, murderers, traitors all! I might have sav'd her; now she's gone for ever! Cordelia, Cordelia! stay a little. Ha! What is't thou say'st, Her voice was ever soft, Gentle, and low- an excellent thing in woman. I kill'd the slave that was a-hanging thee.