# 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

Phoenix and the Turtle

Shakespeare

5

But thou shrieking harbinger,
Foul precurrer of the fiend,
Augur of the fever's end,
To this troop come thou not near!

2

Phoenix and the Turtle

Shakespeare

33

So between them love did shine,
That the turtle saw his right
Flaming in the phoenix' sight;
Either was the other's mine.

3

Phoenix and the Turtle

Shakespeare

37

Property was thus appalled,
That the self was not the same;
Single nature's double name
Neither two nor one was called.

4

Phoenix and the Turtle

Shakespeare

57

Death is now the phoenix' nest
And the turtle's loyal breast
To eternity doth rest,