# 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."

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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.

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1

Tempest
[I, 2]

Ariel

466

My lord it shall be done.

2

Tempest
[I, 2]

Miranda

574

What is't? a spirit?
Lord, how it looks about! Believe me, sir,
It carries a brave form. But 'tis a spirit.

3

Tempest
[I, 2]

Prospero

626

Soft, sir! one word more.
[Aside]
They are both in either's powers; but this swift business
I must uneasy make, lest too light winning
Make the prize light.
[To FERDINAND]
One word more; I charge thee
That thou attend me: thou dost here usurp
The name thou owest not; and hast put thyself
Upon this island as a spy, to win it
From me, the lord on't.

4

Tempest
[II, 1]

Gonzalo

728

Therefore, my lord,—

5

Tempest
[II, 1]

Sebastian

780

What if he had said 'widower AEneas' too? Good Lord,
how you take it!

6

Tempest
[II, 1]

Gonzalo

841

My lord Sebastian,
The truth you speak doth lack some gentleness
And time to speak it in: you rub the sore,
When you should bring the plaster.

7

Tempest
[II, 1]

Gonzalo

851

Had I plantation of this isle, my lord,—

8

Tempest
[II, 1]

Antonio

898

Nay, good my lord, be not angry.

9

Tempest
[II, 1]

Antonio

911

We two, my lord,
Will guard your person while you take your rest,
And watch your safety.

10

Tempest
[II, 1]

Antonio

959

Thus, sir:
Although this lord of weak remembrance, this,
Who shall be of as little memory
When he is earth'd, hath here almost persuade,—
For he's a spirit of persuasion, only
Professes to persuade,—the king his son's alive,
'Tis as impossible that he's undrown'd
And he that sleeps here swims.

11

Tempest
[II, 1]

Ariel

1077

Prospero my lord shall know what I have done:
So, king, go safely on to seek thy son.

12

Tempest
[III, 2]

Caliban

1425

Lo, how he mocks me! wilt thou let him, my lord?

13

Tempest
[III, 2]

Caliban

1431

I thank my noble lord. Wilt thou be pleased to
hearken once again to the suit I made to thee?

14

Tempest
[III, 2]

Caliban

1450

Thou shalt be lord of it and I'll serve thee.

15

Tempest
[III, 2]

Caliban

1453

Yea, yea, my lord: I'll yield him thee asleep,
Where thou mayst knock a nail into his bead.

16

Tempest
[III, 2]

Caliban

1500

Ay, lord; she will become thy bed, I warrant.
And bring thee forth brave brood.

17

Tempest
[III, 3]

Alonso

1558

Old lord, I cannot blame thee,
Who am myself attach'd with weariness,
To the dulling of my spirits: sit down, and rest.
Even here I will put off my hope and keep it
No longer for my flatterer: he is drown'd
Whom thus we stray to find, and the sea mocks
Our frustrate search on land. Well, let him go.

18

Tempest
[III, 3]

Prospero

1602

[Aside] Honest lord,
Thou hast said well; for some of you there present
Are worse than devils.

19

Tempest
[III, 3]

Alonso

1622

I will stand to and feed,
Although my last: no matter, since I feel
The best is past. Brother, my lord the duke,
Stand to and do as we.
[Thunder and lightning. Enter ARIEL, like a]
harpy; claps his wings upon the table; and,
with a quaint device, the banquet vanishes]

20

Tempest
[IV, 1]

Caliban

1947

Good my lord, give me thy favour still.
Be patient, for the prize I'll bring thee to
Shall hoodwink this mischance: therefore speak softly.
All's hush'd as midnight yet.