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So have I heard, and do in part believe it.
But, look, the morn, in russet mantle clad,
Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastward hill.

— Hamlet, Act I Scene 1

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# 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	Antony and Cleopatra [I, 1]	Attendant	23	News, my good lord, from Rome.
2	Antony and Cleopatra [I, 2]	Messenger	178	The nature of bad news infects the teller.
3	Antony and Cleopatra [I, 2]	Antony	199	From Sicyon, ho, the news! Speak there!
4	Antony and Cleopatra [I, 3]	Cleopatra	320	I know, by that same eye, there's some good news. What says the married woman? You may go: Would she had never given you leave to come! Let her not say 'tis I that keep you here: I have no power upon you; hers you are.
5	Antony and Cleopatra [I, 4]	Octavius	424	You may see, Lepidus, and henceforth know, It is not Caesar's natural vice to hate Our great competitor: from Alexandria This is the news: he fishes, drinks, and wastes The lamps of night in revel; is not more man-like Than Cleopatra; nor the queen of Ptolemy More womanly than he; hardly gave audience, or Vouchsafed to think he had partners: you shall find there A man who is the abstract of all faults That all men follow.
6	Antony and Cleopatra [I, 4]	Lepidus	460	Here's more news.
7	Antony and Cleopatra [II, 5]	Messenger	1136	Gracious madam, I that do bring the news made not the match.
8	Antony and Cleopatra [II, 5]	Cleopatra	1156	I will not hurt him. [Exit CHARMIAN] These hands do lack nobility, that they strike A meaner than myself; since I myself Have given myself the cause. [Re-enter CHARMIAN and Messenger] Come hither, sir. Though it be honest, it is never good To bring bad news: give to a gracious message. An host of tongues; but let ill tidings tell Themselves when they be felt.
9	Antony and Cleopatra [III, 5]	Eros	1796	There's strange news come, sir.
10	Antony and Cleopatra [III, 5]	Eros	1814	For Italy and Caesar. More, Domitius; My lord desires you presently: my news I might have told hereafter.
11	Antony and Cleopatra [III, 7]	Messenger	2005	The news is true, my lord; he is descried; Caesar has taken Toryne.
12	Antony and Cleopatra [III, 7]	Canidius	2040	With news the time's with labour, and throes forth, Each minute, some.
13	Antony and Cleopatra [IV, 3]	First Soldier	2581	Nothing. What news?

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