# 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

Henry IV, Part I
[V, 4]

Prince John

3126

This is the strangest tale that ever I heard.

2

Henry IV, Part I
[V, 4]

Henry V

3127

This is the strangest fellow, brother John.
Come, bring your luggage nobly on your back:
For my part, if a lie may do thee grace,
I'll gild it with the happiest terms I have.
[A retreat is sounded]
The trumpet sounds retreat; the day is ours.
Come, brother, let us to the highest of the field,
To see what friends are living, who are dead.

3

Henry VIII
[V, 2]

Doctor Butts

3026

I'll show your grace the strangest sight—

4

King John
[I, 1]

Essex

48

My liege, here is the strangest controversy
Come from country to be judged by you,
That e'er I heard: shall I produce the men?

5

Twelfth Night
[I, 3]

Sir Andrew Aguecheek

218

I'll stay a month longer. I am a fellow o' the
strangest mind i' the world; I delight in masques
and revels sometimes altogether.