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# 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	Henry VI, Part II [IV, 2]	Jack Cade	2461	[Aside] He lies, for I invented it myself. Go to, sirrah, tell the king from me, that, for his father's sake, Henry the Fifth, in whose time boys went to span-counter for French crowns, I am content he shall reign; but I'll be protector over him.
2	Henry VI, Part II [V, 1]	Queen Margaret	3098	Call hither Clifford! bid him come amain, To say if that the bastard boys of York Shall be the surety for their traitor father.
3	Henry VI, Part II [V, 1]	Richard Plantagenet (Duke of Gloucester)	3102	O blood-besotted Neapolitan, Outcast of Naples, England's bloody scourge! The sons of York, thy betters in their birth, Shall be their father's bail; and bane to those That for my surety will refuse the boys! [Enter EDWARD and RICHARD] See where they come: I'll warrant they'll make it good.