# 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

Henry VI, Part II
[I, 3]

First Petitioner

388

My masters, let's stand close: my lord protector
will come this way by and by, and then we may deliver
our supplications in the quill.

2

Henry VI, Part II
[I, 4]

Father John Hume

625

Come, my masters; the duchess, I tell you, expects
performance of your promises.

3

Henry VI, Part II
[I, 4]

Eleanor

640

Well said, my masters; and welcome all. To this
gear the sooner the better.

4

Henry VI, Part II
[II, 1]

Duke of Gloucester

812

Stand by, my masters: bring him near the king;
His highness' pleasure is to talk with him.

5

Henry VI, Part II
[II, 1]

Duke of Gloucester

881

My masters of Saint Alban's, have you not beadles in
your town, and things called whips?

6

Henry VI, Part II
[II, 3]

Thomas Horner

1133

Masters, I am come hither, as it were, upon my man's
instigation, to prove him a knave and myself an
honest man: and touching the Duke of York, I will
take my death, I never meant him any ill, nor the
king, nor the queen: and therefore, Peter, have at
thee with a downright blow!