# 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
[III, 3]

Earl of Warwick

2144

So bad a death argues a monstrous life.

2

Henry VI, Part II
[IV, 2]

Jack Cade

2390

O monstrous!

3

Henry VI, Part II
[IV, 7]

George Bevis

2702

O monstrous coward! what, to come behind folks?

4

Henry VI, Part II
[IV, 10]

Alexander Iden

2954

Is't Cade that I have slain, that monstrous traitor?
Sword, I will hollow thee for this thy deed,
And hang thee o'er my tomb when I am dead:
Ne'er shall this blood be wiped from thy point;
But thou shalt wear it as a herald's coat,
To emblaze the honour that thy master got.

5

Henry VI, Part II
[V, 1]

Richard Plantagenet (Duke of Gloucester)

3039

To heave the traitor Somerset from hence,
And fight against that monstrous rebel Cade,
Who since I heard to be discomfited.

6

Henry VI, Part II
[V, 1]

Duke/Earl of Somerset

3089

O monstrous traitor! I arrest thee, York,
Of capital treason 'gainst the king and crown;
Obey, audacious traitor; kneel for grace.