# 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

Merchant of Venice
[IV, 1]

Portia

2245

A pound of that same merchant's flesh is thine:
The court awards it, and the law doth give it.

2

Merchant of Venice
[IV, 1]

Portia

2248

And you must cut this flesh from off his breast:
The law allows it, and the court awards it.