# 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

Coriolanus
[III, 1]

Menenius Agrippa

2012

Down with that sword! Tribunes, withdraw awhile.

2

Cymbeline
[IV, 3]

Cymbeline

2865

I thank you. Let's withdraw;
And meet the time as it seeks us. We fear not
What can from Italy annoy us; but
We grieve at chances here. Away!

3

Hamlet
[III, 1]

Polonius

1746

I hear him coming. Let's withdraw, my lord.

4

Hamlet
[III, 2]

Hamlet

2224

Ay, sir, but 'while the grass grows'- the proverb is something
musty.
[Enter the Players with recorders. ]
O, the recorders! Let me see one. To withdraw with you- why do
you go about to recover the wind of me, as if you would drive me
into a toil?

5

Hamlet
[III, 4]

Gertrude

2389

I'll warrant you; fear me not. Withdraw; I hear him coming.

6

Henry IV, Part I
[IV, 3]

Hotspur (Henry Percy)

2567

Not so, Sir Walter: we'll withdraw awhile.
Go to the king; and let there be impawn'd
Some surety for a safe return again,
And in the morning early shall my uncle
Bring him our purposes: and so farewell.

7

Henry IV, Part I
[V, 4]

Henry IV

2950

I prithee,
Harry, withdraw thyself; thou bleed'st too much.
Lord John of Lancaster, go you with him.

8

Henry IV, Part II
[IV, 5]

Prince Thomas

2905

Let us withdraw into the other room.

9

Henry VI, Part I
[IV, 2]

Lord Talbot/Earl of Shrewsbury

1966

Go to the gates of Bourdeaux, trumpeter:
Summon their general unto the wall.
[Trumpet sounds. Enter General and others, aloft]
English John Talbot, captains, calls you forth,
Servant in arms to Harry King of England;
And thus he would: Open your city gates;
Be humble to us; call my sovereign yours,
And do him homage as obedient subjects;
And I'll withdraw me and my bloody power:
But, if you frown upon this proffer'd peace,
You tempt the fury of my three attendants,
Lean famine, quartering steel, and climbing fire;
Who in a moment even with the earth
Shall lay your stately and air-braving towers,
If you forsake the offer of their love.

10

Henry VIII
[III, 1]

Cardinal Wolsey

1654

May it please you noble madam, to withdraw
Into your private chamber, we shall give you
The full cause of our coming.

11

King John
[V, 2]

Salisbury

2286

Upon our sides it never shall be broken.
And, noble Dauphin, albeit we swear
A voluntary zeal and an unurged faith
To your proceedings; yet believe me, prince,
I am not glad that such a sore of time
Should seek a plaster by contemn'd revolt,
And heal the inveterate canker of one wound
By making many. O, it grieves my soul,
That I must draw this metal from my side
To be a widow-maker! O, and there
Where honourable rescue and defence
Cries out upon the name of Salisbury!
But such is the infection of the time,
That, for the health and physic of our right,
We cannot deal but with the very hand
Of stern injustice and confused wrong.
And is't not pity, O my grieved friends,
That we, the sons and children of this isle,
Were born to see so sad an hour as this;
Wherein we step after a stranger march
Upon her gentle bosom, and fill up
Her enemies' ranks,—I must withdraw and weep
Upon the spot of this enforced cause,—
To grace the gentry of a land remote,
And follow unacquainted colours here?
What, here? O nation, that thou couldst remove!
That Neptune's arms, who clippeth thee about,
Would bear thee from the knowledge of thyself,
And grapple thee unto a pagan shore;
Where these two Christian armies might combine
The blood of malice in a vein of league,
And not to spend it so unneighbourly!

12

King Lear
[II, 4]

Duke of Cornwall

1589

Let us withdraw; 'twill be a storm.

13

Love's Labour's Lost
[V, 2]

Boyet

2222

Ladies, withdraw: the gallants are at hand.

14

Measure for Measure
[I, 1]

Angelo

92

'Tis so with me. Let us withdraw together,
And we may soon our satisfaction have
Touching that point.

15

Measure for Measure
[I, 2]

Mistress Overdone

201

What's to do here, Thomas tapster? let's withdraw.

16

Midsummer Night's Dream
[III, 2]

Lysander

1296

If thou say so, withdraw, and prove it too.

17

Much Ado about Nothing
[III, 4]

Ursula

1575

Madam, withdraw: the prince, the count, Signior
Benedick, Don John, and all the gallants of the
town, are come to fetch you to church.

18

Much Ado about Nothing
[V, 4]

Leonato

2554

Well, daughter, and you gentle-women all,
Withdraw into a chamber by yourselves,
And when I send for you, come hither mask'd.
[Exeunt Ladies]
The prince and Claudio promised by this hour
To visit me. You know your office, brother:
You must be father to your brother's daughter
And give her to young Claudio.

19

Othello
[III, 3]

Othello

2167

Damn her, lewd minx! O, damn her!
Come, go with me apart; I will withdraw,
To furnish me with some swift means of death
For the fair devil. Now art thou my lieutenant.

20

Othello
[IV, 1]

Iago

2473

No, forbear;
The lethargy must have his quiet course:
If not, he foams at mouth and by and by
Breaks out to savage madness. Look he stirs:
Do you withdraw yourself a little while,
He will recover straight: when he is gone,
I would on great occasion speak with you.
[Exit CASSIO]
How is it, general? have you not hurt your head?