# 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

King Lear
[I, 1]

Cordelia

62

[aside] What shall Cordelia speak? Love, and be silent.

2

King Lear
[I, 1]

Cordelia

78

[aside] Then poor Cordelia!
And yet not so; since I am sure my love's
More richer than my tongue.

3

King Lear
[III, 5]

Edmund

2000

[aside] If I find him comforting the King, it will stuff his
suspicion more fully.- I will persever in my course of loyalty,
though the conflict be sore between that and my blood.

4

King Lear
[III, 6]

Edgar

2062

[aside] My tears begin to take his part so much
They'll mar my counterfeiting.

5

King Lear
[IV, 1]

Edgar

2276

[aside] O gods! Who is't can say 'I am at the worst'?
I am worse than e'er I was.

6

King Lear
[IV, 1]

Edgar

2279

[aside] And worse I may be yet. The worst is not
So long as we can say 'This is the worst.'

7

King Lear
[IV, 1]

Edgar

2291

[aside] How should this be?
Bad is the trade that must play fool to sorrow,
Ang'ring itself and others.- Bless thee, master!

8

King Lear
[IV, 1]

Edgar

2308

Poor Tom's acold. [Aside] I cannot daub it further.

9

King Lear
[IV, 1]

Edgar

2310

[aside] And yet I must.- Bless thy sweet eyes, they bleed.

10

King Lear
[IV, 2]

Goneril

2435

[aside] One way I like this well;
But being widow, and my Gloucester with her,
May all the building in my fancy pluck
Upon my hateful life. Another way
The news is not so tart.- I'll read, and answer. Exit.

11

King Lear
[IV, 6]

Edgar

2636

[aside]. Why I do trifle thus with his despair
Is done to cure it.

12

King Lear
[IV, 6]

Edgar

2749

[aside] I would not take this from report. It is,
And my heart breaks at it.

13

King Lear
[V, 1]

Goneril

3045

[aside] I had rather lose the battle than that sister
Should loosen him and me.

14

King Lear
[V, 1]

Goneril

3066

[aside] O, ho, I know the riddle.- I will go.
[As they are going out,] enter Edgar [disguised].

15

King Lear
[V, 3]

Goneril

3235

[aside] If not, I'll ne'er trust medicine.