# 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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King Lear
[IV, 6]

Lear

2757

What, art mad? A man may see how the world goes with no eyes.
Look with thine ears. See how yond justice rails upon yond
simple thief. Hark in thine ear. Change places and, handy-dandy,
which is the justice, which is the thief? Thou hast seen a
farmer's dog bark at a beggar?