# 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

As You Like It
[IV, 1]

Rosalind

1963

Well, Time is the old justice that examines all such
offenders, and let Time try. Adieu. Exit ORLANDO

2

Henry IV, Part I
[V, 5]

Henry IV

3155

Bear Worcester to the death and Vernon too:
Other offenders we will pause upon.
[Exeunt WORCESTER and VERNON, guarded]
How goes the field?

3

Henry IV, Part II
[IV, 1]

Lord Hastings

2422

Besides, the King hath wasted all his rods
On late offenders, that he now doth lack
The very instruments of chastisement;
So that his power, like to a fangless lion,
May offer, but not hold.

4

Henry V
[III, 6]

Henry V

1572

We would have all such offenders so cut off: and we
give express charge, that in our marches through the
country, there be nothing compelled from the
villages, nothing taken but paid for, none of the
French upbraided or abused in disdainful language;
for when lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the
gentler gamester is the soonest winner.

5

Henry VI, Part II
[I, 3]

Duke of Buckingham

526

Thy cruelty in execution
Upon offenders, hath exceeded law,
And left thee to the mercy of the law.

6

Henry VI, Part II
[II, 1]

Henry VI

948

Well, for this night we will repose us here:
To-morrow toward London back again,
To look into this business thoroughly
And call these foul offenders to their answers
And poise the cause in justice' equal scales,
Whose beam stands sure, whose rightful cause prevails.

7

Henry VI, Part II
[III, 1]

Richard Plantagenet (Duke of Gloucester)

1401

In your protectorship you did devise
Strange tortures for offenders never heard of,
That England was defamed by tyranny.

8

Much Ado about Nothing
[IV, 2]

Sexton

1989

But which are the offenders that are to be
examined? let them come before master constable.

9

Rape of Lucrece

Shakespeare

661

'This deed will make thee only loved for fear;
But happy monarchs still are fear'd for love:
With foul offenders thou perforce must bear,
When they in thee the like offences prove:
If but for fear of this, thy will remove;
For princes are the glass, the school, the book,
Where subjects' eyes do learn, do read, do look.

10

Richard III
[III, 4]

Lord Hastings

2020

The tender love I bear your grace, my lord,
Makes me most forward in this noble presence
To doom the offenders, whatsoever they be
I say, my lord, they have deserved death.

11

Sonnet 42

Shakespeare

575

That thou hast her, it is not all my grief,
And yet it may be said I loved her dearly;
That she hath thee, is of my wailing chief,
A loss in love that touches me more nearly.
Loving offenders, thus I will excuse ye:
Thou dost love her, because thou knowst I love her;
And for my sake even so doth she abuse me,
Suffering my friend for my sake to approve her.
If I lose thee, my loss is my love's gain,
And losing her, my friend hath found that loss;
Both find each other, and I lose both twain,
And both for my sake lay on me this cross:
But here's the joy; my friend and I are one;
Sweet flattery! then she loves but me alone.

12

Winter's Tale
[V, 1]

Leontes

2886

Thou speak'st truth.
No more such wives; therefore, no wife: one worse,
And better used, would make her sainted spirit
Again possess her corpse, and on this stage,
Where we're offenders now, appear soul-vex'd,
And begin, 'Why to me?'