# 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
[II, 4]

Earl of Kent

1336

With the Earl, sir, here within.

2

King Lear
[III, 5]

Duke of Cornwall

1997

True or false, it hath made thee Earl of Gloucester.
Seek out where thy father is, that he may be ready for our
apprehension.

3

King Lear
[III, 7]

Servant 2

2240

Let's follow the old Earl, and get the bedlam
To lead him where he would. His roguish madness
Allows itself to anything.

4

King Lear
[IV, 6]

Oswald

2867

Slave, thou hast slain me. Villain, take my purse.
If ever thou wilt thrive, bury my body,
And give the letters which thou find'st about me
To Edmund Earl of Gloucester. Seek him out
Upon the British party. O, untimely death! Death!

5

King Lear
[IV, 7]

Gentleman

3013

They say Edgar, his banish'd son, is with the Earl of Kent
in Germany.

6

King Lear
[V, 3]

Herald

3253

[reads] 'If any man of quality or degree within the lists of
the army will maintain upon Edmund, supposed Earl of Gloucester,
that he is a manifold traitor, let him appear by the third sound
of the trumpet. He is bold in his defence.'

7

King Lear
[V, 3]

Edgar

3272

What's he that speaks for Edmund Earl of Gloucester?