# 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.

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1

Julius Caesar
[IV, 1]

Octavius

1877

So you thought him;
And took his voice who should be prick'd to die,
In our black sentence and proscription.

2

Julius Caesar
[IV, 3]

Messala

2179

That by proscription and bills of outlawry,
Octavius, Antony, and Lepidus,
Have put to death an hundred senators.

3

Julius Caesar
[IV, 3]

Messala

2186

Cicero is dead,
And by that order of proscription.
Had you your letters from your wife, my lord?