# Result number

Work The work is either a play, poem, or sonnet. The sonnets are treated as single work with 154 parts.

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1

Henry VI, Part II
[II, 1]

Henry VI

810

Great is his comfort in this earthly vale,
Although by his sight his sin be multiplied.

2

Henry VI, Part II
[III, 1]

Duke of Gloucester

1404

Why, 'tis well known that, whiles I was
protector,
Pity was all the fault that was in me;
For I should melt at an offender's tears,
And lowly words were ransom for their fault.
Unless it were a bloody murderer,
Or foul felonious thief that fleeced poor passengers,
I never gave them condign punishment:
Murder indeed, that bloody sin, I tortured
Above the felon or what trespass else.

3

Henry VI, Part II
[IV, 2]

George Bevis

2331

Then is sin struck down like an ox, and iniquity's
throat cut like a calf.

4

Henry VI, Part II
[V, 1]

Earl of Salisbury

3172

It is great sin to swear unto a sin,
But greater sin to keep a sinful oath.
Who can be bound by any solemn vow
To do a murderous deed, to rob a man,
To force a spotless virgin's chastity,
To reave the orphan of his patrimony,
To wring the widow from her custom'd right,
And have no other reason for this wrong
But that he was bound by a solemn oath?