# 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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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.

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1

Henry VI, Part III
[I, 2]

Messenger

344

The queen with all the northern earls and lords
Intend here to besiege you in your castle:
She is hard by with twenty thousand men;
And therefore fortify your hold, my lord.

2

Henry VI, Part III
[II, 1]

Richard III (Duke of Gloucester)

829

Then, Clifford, were thy heart as hard as steel,
As thou hast shown it flinty by thy deeds,
I come to pierce it, or to give thee mine.

3

Henry VI, Part III
[II, 6]

Richard III (Duke of Gloucester)

1330

What, not an oath? nay, then the world goes hard
When Clifford cannot spare his friends an oath.
I know by that he's dead; and, by my soul,
If this right hand would buy two hour's life,
That I in all despite might rail at him,
This hand should chop it off, and with the
issuing blood
Stifle the villain whose unstanched thirst
York and young Rutland could not satisfy.

4

Henry VI, Part III
[III, 2]

Richard III (Duke of Gloucester)

1529

[Aside to CLARENCE] He plies her hard; and much rain
wears the marble.

5

Henry VI, Part III
[V, 6]

Richard III (Duke of Gloucester)

2995

Good day, my lord. What, at your book so hard?