# 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

Measure for Measure
[IV, 2]

Provost

2021

I told you. Lord Angelo, belike thinking me remiss
in mine office, awakens me with this unwonted
putting-on; methinks strangely, for he hath not used it before.

2

Measure for Measure
[V, 1]

Vincentio

2530

A ghostly father, belike. Who knows that Lodowick?

3

Measure for Measure
[V, 1]

Vincentio

2535

Words against me? this is a good friar, belike!
And to set on this wretched woman here
Against our substitute! Let this friar be found.