# 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

Troilus and Cressida
[III, 3]

Achilles

2186

Come, thou shalt bear a letter to him straight.

2

Troilus and Cressida
[V, 1]

Thersites

2937

Why, thou picture of what thou seemest, and idol
of idiot worshippers, here's a letter for thee.

3

Troilus and Cressida
[V, 1]

Achilles

2967

My sweet Patroclus, I am thwarted quite
From my great purpose in to-morrow's battle.
Here is a letter from Queen Hecuba,
A token from her daughter, my fair love,
Both taxing me and gaging me to keep
An oath that I have sworn. I will not break it:
Fall Greeks; fail fame; honour or go or stay;
My major vow lies here, this I'll obey.
Come, come, Thersites, help to trim my tent:
This night in banqueting must all be spent.
Away, Patroclus!

4

Troilus and Cressida
[V, 3]

Pandarus

3393

Here's a letter come from yond poor girl.

5

Troilus and Cressida
[V, 3]

Troilus

3402

Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart:
The effect doth operate another way.
[Tearing the letter]
Go, wind, to wind, there turn and change together.
My love with words and errors still she feeds;
But edifies another with her deeds.