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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

All's Well That Ends Well
[I, 3]

Countess

489

Yes, Helen, you might be my daughter-in-law:
God shield you mean it not! daughter and mother
So strive upon your pulse. What, pale again?
My fear hath catch'd your fondness: now I see
The mystery of your loneliness, and find
Your salt tears' head: now to all sense 'tis gross
You love my son; invention is ashamed,
Against the proclamation of thy passion,
To say thou dost not: therefore tell me true;
But tell me then, 'tis so; for, look thy cheeks
Confess it, th' one to th' other; and thine eyes
See it so grossly shown in thy behaviors
That in their kind they speak it: only sin
And hellish obstinacy tie thy tongue,
That truth should be suspected. Speak, is't so?
If it be so, you have wound a goodly clew;
If it be not, forswear't: howe'er, I charge thee,
As heaven shall work in me for thine avail,
Tell me truly.

2

Henry IV, Part I
[I, 3]

Earl of Northumberland

476

He was; I heard the proclamation:
And then it was when the unhappy king,
—Whose wrongs in us God pardon!—did set forth
Upon his Irish expedition;
From whence he intercepted did return
To be deposed and shortly murdered.

3

Henry VI, Part I
[I, 3]

Lord Mayor of London

429

Naught rests for me in this tumultuous strife
But to make open proclamation:
Come, officer; as loud as e'er thou canst,
Cry.

4

Henry VI, Part III
[IV, 7]

Lord Hastings

2498

Sound trumpet; Edward shall be here proclaim'd:
Come, fellow-soldier, make thou proclamation.

5

Henry VI, Part III
[V, 5]

King Edward IV (Plantagenet)

2903

Is proclamation made, that who finds Edward
Shall have a high reward, and he his life?

6

Henry VIII
[I, 3]

Sir Thomas Lovell

590

Faith, my lord,
I hear of none, but the new proclamation
That's clapp'd upon the court-gate.

7

King Lear
[V, 3]

Edgar

3340

By nursing them, my lord. List a brief tale;
And when 'tis told, O that my heart would burst!
The bloody proclamation to escape
That follow'd me so near (O, our lives' sweetness!
That with the pain of death would hourly die
Rather than die at once!) taught me to shift
Into a madman's rags, t' assume a semblance
That very dogs disdain'd; and in this habit
Met I my father with his bleeding rings,
Their precious stones new lost; became his guide,
Led him, begg'd for him, sav'd him from despair;
Never (O fault!) reveal'd myself unto him
Until some half hour past, when I was arm'd,
Not sure, though hoping of this good success,
I ask'd his blessing, and from first to last
Told him my pilgrimage. But his flaw'd heart
(Alack, too weak the conflict to support!)
'Twixt two extremes of passion, joy and grief,
Burst smilingly.

8

Love's Labour's Lost
[I, 1]

Ferdinand

280

Did you hear the proclamation?

9

Measure for Measure
[I, 2]

First Gentleman

169

But, most of all, agreeing with the proclamation.

10

Measure for Measure
[I, 2]

Pompey

183

No, but there's a woman with maid by him. You have
not heard of the proclamation, have you?

11

Measure for Measure
[I, 2]

Mistress Overdone

185

What proclamation, man?

12

Measure for Measure
[III, 2]

Vincentio

1650

Either this is the envy in you, folly, or mistaking:
the very stream of his life and the business he hath
helmed must upon a warranted need give him a better
proclamation. Let him be but testimonied in his own
bringings-forth, and he shall appear to the
envious a scholar, a statesman and a soldier.
Therefore you speak unskilfully: or if your
knowledge be more it is much darkened in your malice.

13

Merchant of Venice
[IV, 1]

Bassanio

2389

There's more depends on this than on the value.
The dearest ring in Venice will I give you,
And find it out by proclamation:
Only for this, I pray you, pardon me.

14

Othello
[II, 2]

(stage directions)

1115

[Enter a Herald with a proclamation; People following]

15

Pericles
[IV, 2]

Boult

1771

Ay, he: he offered to cut a caper at the
proclamation; but he made a groan at it, and swore
he would see her to-morrow.

16

Richard III
[IV, 4]

Third Messenger

3349

Such proclamation hath been made, my liege.

17

Troilus and Cressida
[II, 1]

Ajax

877

Toadstool, learn me the proclamation.

18

Troilus and Cressida
[II, 1]

Ajax

879

The proclamation!

19

Troilus and Cressida
[II, 1]

Ajax

886

I say, the proclamation!

20

Troilus and Cressida
[II, 1]

Ajax

949

I bade the vile owl go learn me the tenor of the
proclamation, and he rails upon me.