# 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

Hamlet
[V, 1]

First Clown

3495

Why, here in Denmark. I have been sexton here, man and boy
thirty years.

2

King John
[III, 1]

Philip the Bastard

1252

Old Time the clock-setter, that bald sexton Time,
Is it as he will? well then, France shall rue.

3

Much Ado about Nothing
[IV, 2]

(stage directions)

1982

[Enter DOGBERRY, VERGES, and Sexton, in gowns; and]
the Watch, with CONRADE and BORACHIO]

4

Much Ado about Nothing
[IV, 2]

Verges

1985

O, a stool and a cushion for the sexton.

5

Much Ado about Nothing
[IV, 2]

Dogberry

2048

God's my life, where's the sexton? let him write
down the prince's officer coxcomb. Come, bind them.
Thou naughty varlet!

6

Much Ado about Nothing
[V, 1]

Dogberry

2324

Come, bring away the plaintiffs: by this time our
sexton hath reformed Signior Leonato of the matter:
and, masters, do not forget to specify, when time
and place shall serve, that I am an ass.

7

Much Ado about Nothing
[V, 1]

Verges

2328

Here, here comes master Signior Leonato, and the
Sexton too.

8

Much Ado about Nothing
[V, 1]

(stage directions)

2330

[Re-enter LEONATO and ANTONIO, with the Sexton]

9

Pericles
[II, 1]

Third Fisherman

617

But, master, if I had been the sexton, I would have
been that day in the belfry.