# 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

Macbeth
[I, 1]

(stage directions)

1

[Thunder and lightning. Enter three Witches]

2

Macbeth
[I, 1]

First Witch

2

When shall we three meet again
In thunder, lightning, or in rain?

3

Macbeth
[I, 3]

(stage directions)

97

[Thunder. Enter the three Witches]

4

Macbeth
[II, 1]

Banquo

592

All's well.
I dreamt last night of the three weird sisters:
To you they have show'd some truth.

5

Macbeth
[II, 3]

Porter

784

'Faith sir, we were carousing till the
second cock: and drink, sir, is a great
provoker of three things.

6

Macbeth
[II, 3]

Macduff

787

What three things does drink especially provoke?

7

Macbeth
[III, 3]

(stage directions)

1233

[Enter three Murderers]

8

Macbeth
[III, 5]

(stage directions)

1450

[Thunder. Enter the three Witches meeting HECATE]

9

Macbeth
[IV, 1]

(stage directions)

1547

[Thunder. Enter the three Witches]

10

Macbeth
[IV, 1]

(stage directions)

1586

[Enter HECATE to the other three Witches]

11

Macbeth
[IV, 1]

Macbeth

1640

Had I three ears, I'ld hear thee.

12

Macbeth
[IV, 1]

Lennox

1720

'Tis two or three, my lord, that bring you word
Macduff is fled to England.

13

Macbeth
[V, 5]

Messenger

2396

Let me endure your wrath, if't be not so:
Within this three mile may you see it coming;
I say, a moving grove.