# 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

Henry VI, Part I
[II, 4]

Richard Plantagenet (Duke of Gloucester)

920

Great lords and gentlemen, what means this silence?
Dare no man answer in a case of truth?

2

Henry VI, Part I
[II, 4]

Richard Plantagenet (Duke of Gloucester)

925

Then say at once if I maintain'd the truth;
Or else was wrangling Somerset in the error?

3

Henry VI, Part I
[II, 4]

Richard Plantagenet (Duke of Gloucester)

940

Tut, tut, here is a mannerly forbearance:
The truth appears so naked on my side
That any purblind eye may find it out.

4

Henry VI, Part I
[II, 4]

Richard Plantagenet (Duke of Gloucester)

947

Since you are tongue-tied and so loath to speak,
In dumb significants proclaim your thoughts:
Let him that is a true-born gentleman
And stands upon the honour of his birth,
If he suppose that I have pleaded truth,
From off this brier pluck a white rose with me.

5

Henry VI, Part I
[II, 4]

Duke/Earl of Somerset

953

Let him that is no coward nor no flatterer,
But dare maintain the party of the truth,
Pluck a red rose from off this thorn with me.

6

Henry VI, Part I
[II, 4]

Vernon

969

Then for the truth and plainness of the case.
I pluck this pale and maiden blossom here,
Giving my verdict on the white rose side.

7

Henry VI, Part I
[II, 4]

Richard Plantagenet (Duke of Gloucester)

988

Meantime your cheeks do counterfeit our roses;
For pale they look with fear, as witnessing
The truth on our side.

8

Henry VI, Part I
[II, 4]

Richard Plantagenet (Duke of Gloucester)

999

Ay, sharp and piercing, to maintain his truth;
Whiles thy consuming canker eats his falsehood.

9

Henry VI, Part I
[III, 4]

Henry VI

1723

Welcome, brave captain and victorious lord!
When I was young, as yet I am not old,
I do remember how my father said
A stouter champion never handled sword.
Long since we were resolved of your truth,
Your faithful service and your toil in war;
Yet never have you tasted our reward,
Or been reguerdon'd with so much as thanks,
Because till now we never saw your face:
Therefore, stand up; and, for these good deserts,
We here create you Earl of Shrewsbury;
And in our coronation take your place.

10

Henry VI, Part I
[IV, 1]

Duke of Gloucester

1790

To say the truth, this fact was infamous
And ill beseeming any common man,
Much more a knight, a captain and a leader.

11

Henry VI, Part I
[IV, 1]

Basset

1854

Crossing the sea from England into France,
This fellow here, with envious carping tongue,
Upbraided me about the rose I wear;
Saying, the sanguine colour of the leaves
Did represent my master's blushing cheeks,
When stubbornly he did repugn the truth
About a certain question in the law
Argued betwixt the Duke of York and him;
With other vile and ignominious terms:
In confutation of which rude reproach
And in defence of my lord's worthiness,
I crave the benefit of law of arms.

12

Henry VI, Part I
[V, 4]

Duke of Alencon

2834

To say the truth, it is your policy
To save your subjects from such massacre
And ruthless slaughters as are daily seen
By our proceeding in hostility;
And therefore take this compact of a truce,
Although you break it when your pleasure serves.