# 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

Timon of Athens
[I, 1]

Timon

184

My hand to thee; mine honour on my promise.

2

Timon of Athens
[I, 2]

Third Lord

451

I promise you, my lord, you moved me much.

3

Timon of Athens
[IV, 3]

Timon

1746

Promise me friendship, but perform none: if thou
wilt not promise, the gods plague thee, for thou art
a man! if thou dost perform, confound thee, for
thou art a man!

4

Timon of Athens
[V, 1]

Painter

2277

Nothing at this time but my visitation: only I will
promise him an excellent piece.

5

Timon of Athens
[V, 1]

Painter

2281

Good as the best. Promising is the very air o' the
time: it opens the eyes of expectation:
performance is ever the duller for his act; and,
but in the plainer and simpler kind of people, the
deed of saying is quite out of use. To promise is
most courtly and fashionable: performance is a kind
of will or testament which argues a great sickness
in his judgment that makes it.

6

Timon of Athens
[V, 1]

First Senator

2393

Bring us to his cave:
It is our part and promise to the Athenians
To speak with Timon.