# 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

Antony and Cleopatra
[II, 4]

Lepidus

1042

Your way is shorter;
My purposes do draw me much about:
You'll win two days upon me.

2

Henry IV, Part I
[III, 1]

Glendower

1634

A shorter time shall send me to you, lords:
And in my conduct shall your ladies come;
From whom you now must steal and take no leave,
For there will be a world of water shed
Upon the parting of your wives and you.

3

King Lear
[I, 5]

Fool

923

She that's a maid now, and laughs at my departure,
Shall not be a maid long, unless things be cut shorter

4

Measure for Measure
[II, 4]

Isabella

1061

When, I beseech you? that in his reprieve,
Longer or shorter, he may be so fitted
That his soul sicken not.

5

Othello
[II, 1]

Iago

1072

Sir, he is rash and very sudden in choler, and haply
may strike at you: provoke him, that he may; for
even out of that will I cause these of Cyprus to
mutiny; whose qualification shall come into no true
taste again but by the displanting of Cassio. So
shall you have a shorter journey to your desires by
the means I shall then have to prefer them; and the
impediment most profitably removed, without the
which there were no expectation of our prosperity.