# 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, 2]

Oswald

1096

Why, what a monstrous fellow art thou, thus to rail on one
that's neither known of thee nor knows thee!

2

King Lear
[II, 2]

Earl of Gloucester

1228

I am sorry for thee, friend. 'Tis the Duke's pleasure,
Whose disposition, all the world well knows,
Will not be rubb'd nor stopp'd. I'll entreat for thee.

3

King Lear
[II, 4]

Regan

1528

Not altogether so.
I look'd not for you yet, nor am provided
For your fit welcome. Give ear, sir, to my sister;
For those that mingle reason with your passion
Must be content to think you old, and so-
But she knows what she does.

4

King Lear
[IV, 2]

Duke of Albany

2444

Knows he the wickedness?

5

King Lear
[V, 3]

Duke of Albany

3478

He knows not what he says; and vain is it
That we present us to him.