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Every man has business and desire,
Such as it is.

— Hamlet, Act I Scene 5

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# 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	Richard III [I, 2]	Lady Anne	270	In thy foul throat thou liest: Queen Margaret saw Thy murderous falchion smoking in his blood; The which thou once didst bend against her breast, But that thy brothers beat aside the point.
2	Richard III [I, 3]	Richard III (Duke of Gloucester)	786	So do I ever: [Aside] being well-advised. For had I cursed now, I had cursed myself.
3	Richard III [II, 2]	Richard III (Duke of Gloucester)	1382	[Aside] Amen; and make me die a good old man! That is the butt-end of a mother's blessing: I marvel why her grace did leave it out.
4	Richard III [III, 1]	Richard III (Duke of Gloucester)	1648	[Aside] So wise so young, they say, do never live long.
5	Richard III [III, 1]	Richard III (Duke of Gloucester)	1651	I say, without characters, fame lives long. [Aside] Thus, like the formal vice, Iniquity, I moralize two meanings in one word.
6	Richard III [III, 1]	Richard III (Duke of Gloucester)	1665	[Aside] Short summers lightly have a forward spring.
7	Richard III [III, 2]	Sir William Catesby	1852	The princes both make high account of you; [Aside] For they account his head upon the bridge.
8	Richard III [III, 2]	Duke of Buckingham	1913	[Aside] And supper too, although thou know'st it not. Come, will you go?
9	Richard III [III, 4]	Richard III (Duke of Gloucester)	1988	Cousin of Buckingham, a word with you. [Drawing him aside] Catesby hath sounded Hastings in our business, And finds the testy gentleman so hot, As he will lose his head ere give consent His master's son, as worshipful as he terms it, Shall lose the royalty of England's throne.
10	Richard III [IV, 2]	Sir William Catesby	2611	[Aside to a stander by] The king is angry: see, he bites the lip.

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