# 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 VIII
[III, 1]

Cardinal Wolsey

1749

Madam, this is a mere distraction;
You turn the good we offer into envy.

2

Henry VIII
[III, 2]

Duke of Suffolk

2225

That, out of mere ambition, you have caused
Your holy hat to be stamp'd on the king's coin.

3

Henry VIII
[III, 2]

Earl of Surrey

2227

Then that you have sent innumerable substance—
By what means got, I leave to your own conscience—
To furnish Rome, and to prepare the ways
You have for dignities; to the mere undoing
Of all the kingdom. Many more there are;
Which, since they are of you, and odious,
I will not taint my mouth with.

4

Henry VIII
[IV, 1]

Third Gentleman

2481

Among the crowd i' the Abbey; where a finger
Could not be wedged in more: I am stifled
With the mere rankness of their joy.