# 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

Richard III
[I, 2]

Lady Anne

248

O wonderful, when devils tell the truth!

2

Richard III
[I, 3]

Richard III (Duke of Gloucester)

503

They do me wrong, and I will not endure it:
Who are they that complain unto the king,
That I, forsooth, am stern, and love them not?
By holy Paul, they love his grace but lightly
That fill his ears with such dissentious rumours.
Because I cannot flatter and speak fair,
Smile in men's faces, smooth, deceive and cog,
Duck with French nods and apish courtesy,
I must be held a rancorous enemy.
Cannot a plain man live and think no harm,
But thus his simple truth must be abused
By silken, sly, insinuating Jacks?

3

Richard III
[III, 1]

Prince Edward

1644

But say, my lord, it were not register'd,
Methinks the truth should live from age to age,
As 'twere retail'd to all posterity,
Even to the general all-ending day.

4

Richard III
[III, 2]

Sir William Stanley

1877

They, for their truth, might better wear their heads
Than some that have accused them wear their hats.
But come, my lord, let us away.

5

Richard III
[III, 3]

Lord (Earl) Rivers

1920

Sir Richard Ratcliff, let me tell thee this:
To-day shalt thou behold a subject die
For truth, for duty, and for loyalty.

6

Richard III
[III, 7]

Richard III (Duke of Gloucester)

2451

In saying so, you shall but say the truth.

7

Richard III
[V, 3]

Richard III (Duke of Gloucester)

3783

He said the truth: and what said Surrey then?