# 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 VI, Part III
[IV, 7]

(stage directions)

2440

[Enter, on the walls, the Mayor of York, and his Brethren]

2

Henry VI, Part III
[IV, 7]

King Edward IV (Plantagenet)

2444

But, master mayor, if Henry be your king,
Yet Edward at the least is Duke of York.

3

Henry VI, Part III
[IV, 7]

Lord Hastings

2451

Why, master mayor, why stand you in a doubt?
Open the gates; we are King Henry's friends.

4

Henry VI, Part III
[IV, 7]

(stage directions)

2460

[Enter the Mayor and two Aldermen, below]

5

Henry VI, Part III
[IV, 7]

King Edward IV (Plantagenet)

2461

So, master mayor: these gates must not be shut
But in the night or in the time of war.
What! fear not, man, but yield me up the keys;
[Takes his keys]
For Edward will defend the town and thee,
And all those friends that deign to follow me.

6

Henry VI, Part III
[V, 1]

(stage directions)

2591

[Enter WARWICK, the Mayor of Coventry, two Messengers,]
and others upon the walls]