# 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

King Lear
[I, 4]

Fool

663

Dost thou know the difference, my boy, between a bitter
fool and a sweet fool?

2

King Lear
[II, 2]

Duke of Cornwall

1121

What is your difference? Speak.

3

King Lear
[IV, 2]

Goneril

2366

My most dear Gloucester!
O, the difference of man and man!
To thee a woman's services are due;
My fool usurps my body.

4

King Lear
[V, 3]

Earl of Kent

3471

That from your first of difference and decay
Have followed your sad steps.