| Speeches (Lines) for Gentleman | ||
| # | Act, Scene, Line (Click to see in context) | Speech text | 
| 1 | Ready, my lord. | |
| 2 | As I learn'd,
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| 3 | Made you no more offence but what you speak of? | |
| 4 | One minded like the weather, most unquietly. | |
| 5 | Contending with the fretful elements;
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| 6 | None but the fool, who labours to outjest
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| 7 | I will talk further with you. | |
| 8 | Give me your hand. Have you no more to say? | |
| 9 | O, my good lord, the Duke of Cornwall 's dead,
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| 10 | A servant that he bred, thrill'd with remorse,
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| 11 | Both, both, my lord.
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| 12 | Come with my lady hither. | |
| 13 | No, my good lord; I met him back again. | |
| 14 | Ay, my good lord. 'Twas he inform'd against him,
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| 15 | Something he left imperfect in the state, which since his
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| 16 | The Marshal of France, Monsieur La Far. | |
| 17 | Ay, sir. She took them, read them in my presence,
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| 18 | Not to a rage. Patience and sorrow strove
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| 19 | Faith, once or twice she heav'd the name of father
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| 20 | No. | |
| 21 | No, since. | |
| 22 | Why, good sir? | |
| 23 | Alack, poor gentleman! | |
| 24 | 'Tis so; they are afoot. | |
| 25 | O, here he is! Lay hand upon him.- Sir,
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| 26 | You shall have anything. | |
| 27 | Good sir- | |
| 28 | You are a royal one, and we obey you. | |
| 29 | A sight most pitiful in the meanest wretch,
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| 30 | Sir, speed you. What's your will? | |
| 31 | Most sure and vulgar. Every one hears that
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| 32 | Near and on speedy foot. The main descry
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| 33 | Though that the Queen on special cause is here,
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| 34 | Ay, madam. In the heaviness of sleep
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| 35 | Holds it true, sir, that the Duke of Cornwall was so slain? | |
| 36 | Who is conductor of his people? | |
| 37 | They say Edgar, his banish'd son, is with the Earl of Kent
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| 38 | The arbitrement is like to be bloody.
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| 39 | Help, help! O, help! | |
| 40 | 'Tis hot, it smokes.
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| 41 | Your lady, sir, your lady! and her sister
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