# Result number

Work The work is either a play, poem, or sonnet. The sonnets are treated as single work with 154 parts.

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1

Richard III
[II, 2]

Duchess of York

1272

No, boy.

2

Richard III
[II, 2]

Duchess of York

1302

Ay, boy.

3

Richard III
[II, 4]

Queen Elizabeth

1519

A parlous boy: go to, you are too shrewd.

4

Richard III
[II, 4]

Queen Elizabeth

1554

Come, come, my boy; we will to sanctuary.
Madam, farewell.

5

Richard III
[III, 1]

Richard III (Duke of Gloucester)

1729

No doubt, no doubt; O, 'tis a parlous boy;
Bold, quick, ingenious, forward, capable
He is all the mother's, from the top to toe.

6

Richard III
[IV, 2]

Richard III (Duke of Gloucester)

2613

I will converse with iron-witted fools
And unrespective boys: none are for me
That look into me with considerate eyes:
High-reaching Buckingham grows circumspect.
Boy!

7

Richard III
[IV, 2]

Richard III (Duke of Gloucester)

2641

Rumour it abroad
That Anne, my wife, is sick and like to die:
I will take order for her keeping close.
Inquire me out some mean-born gentleman,
Whom I will marry straight to Clarence' daughter:
The boy is foolish, and I fear not him.
Look, how thou dream'st! I say again, give out
That Anne my wife is sick and like to die:
About it; for it stands me much upon,
To stop all hopes whose growth may damage me.
[Exit CATESBY]
I must be married to my brother's daughter,
Or else my kingdom stands on brittle glass.
Murder her brothers, and then marry her!
Uncertain way of gain! But I am in
So far in blood that sin will pluck on sin:
Tear-falling pity dwells not in this eye.
[Re-enter Page, with TYRREL]
Is thy name Tyrrel?

8

Richard III
[IV, 2]

Richard III (Duke of Gloucester)

2693

As I remember, Henry the Sixth
Did prophesy that Richmond should be king,
When Richmond was a little peevish boy.
A king, perhaps, perhaps,—