# 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, 2]

Earl of Gloucester

404

O villain, villain! His very opinion in the letter! Abhorred
villain! Unnatural, detested, brutish villain! worse than
brutish! Go, sirrah, seek him. I'll apprehend him. Abominable
villain! Where is he?

2

King Lear
[I, 4]

Lear

571

Follow me; thou shalt serve me. If I like thee no worse after
dinner, I will not part from thee yet. Dinner, ho, dinner!
Where's my knave? my fool? Go you and call my fool hither.
[Exit an attendant.]
[Enter [Oswald the] Steward.]
You, you, sirrah, where's my daughter?

3

King Lear
[I, 4]

Fool

628

Sirrah, you were best take my coxcomb.

4

King Lear
[I, 4]

Fool

643

Sirrah, I'll teach thee a speech.

5

King Lear
[I, 4]

Lear

694

When were you wont to be so full of songs, sirrah?

6

King Lear
[I, 4]

Lear

704

An you lie, sirrah, we'll have you whipp'd.

7

King Lear
[II, 2]

Duke of Cornwall

1135

Peace, sirrah!
You beastly knave, know you no reverence?

8

King Lear
[III, 4]

Earl of Kent

1975

Sirrah, come on; go along with us.

9

King Lear
[IV, 1]

Earl of Gloucester

2307

Sirrah naked fellow-