# 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 III
[I, 4]

Lord Clifford

487

I will not bandy with thee word for word,
But buckle with thee blows, twice two for one.

2

Henry VI, Part III
[II, 6]

Richard III (Duke of Gloucester)

1330

What, not an oath? nay, then the world goes hard
When Clifford cannot spare his friends an oath.
I know by that he's dead; and, by my soul,
If this right hand would buy two hour's life,
That I in all despite might rail at him,
This hand should chop it off, and with the
issuing blood
Stifle the villain whose unstanched thirst
York and young Rutland could not satisfy.

3

Henry VI, Part III
[III, 1]

(stage directions)

1366

[Enter two Keepers, with cross-bows in their hands]

4

Henry VI, Part III
[III, 2]

Richard III (Duke of Gloucester)

1503

[Aside to CLARENCE] Nay, whip me then: he'll rather
give her two.

5

Henry VI, Part III
[III, 2]

King Edward IV (Plantagenet)

1595

Brothers, you muse what chat we two have had.

6

Henry VI, Part III
[III, 3]

Earl of Warwick

1782

Oxford, how haps it, in this smooth discourse,
You told not how Henry the Sixth hath lost
All that which Henry Fifth had gotten?
Methinks these peers of France should smile at that.
But for the rest, you tell a pedigree
Of threescore and two years; a silly time
To make prescription for a kingdom's worth.

7

Henry VI, Part III
[IV, 7]

(stage directions)

2460

[Enter the Mayor and two Aldermen, below]

8

Henry VI, Part III
[V, 1]

(stage directions)

2591

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

9

Henry VI, Part III
[V, 1]

Duke/Earl of Somerset

2602

At Southam I did leave him with his forces,
And do expect him here some two hours hence.

10

Henry VI, Part III
[V, 1]

Richard III (Duke of Gloucester)

2675

Two of thy name, both Dukes of Somerset,
Have sold their lives unto the house of York;
And thou shalt be the third if this sword hold.

11

Henry VI, Part III
[V, 7]

King Edward IV (Plantagenet)

3096

Once more we sit in England's royal throne,
Re-purchased with the blood of enemies.
What valiant foemen, like to autumn's corn,
Have we mow'd down, in tops of all their pride!
Three Dukes of Somerset, threefold renown'd
For hardy and undoubted champions;
Two Cliffords, as the father and the son,
And two Northumberlands; two braver men
Ne'er spurr'd their coursers at the trumpet's sound;
With them, the two brave bears, Warwick and Montague,
That in their chains fetter'd the kingly lion
And made the forest tremble when they roar'd.
Thus have we swept suspicion from our seat
And made our footstool of security.
Come hither, Bess, and let me kiss my boy.
Young Ned, for thee, thine uncles and myself
Have in our armours watch'd the winter's night,
Went all afoot in summer's scalding heat,
That thou mightst repossess the crown in peace;
And of our labours thou shalt reap the gain.