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There's the humour of it.

— The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act II Scene 1

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# 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	Comedy of Errors [I, 2]	Dromio of Ephesus	257	What mean you, sir? for God's sake, hold your hands! Nay, and you will not, sir, I'll take my heels.
2	Comedy of Errors [II, 2]	Antipholus of Syracuse	415	Yea, dost thou jeer and flout me in the teeth? Think'st thou I jest? Hold, take thou that, and that.
3	Comedy of Errors [II, 2]	Dromio of Syracuse	418	Hold, sir, for God's sake! now your jest is earnest: Upon what bargain do you give it me?
4	Comedy of Errors [III, 1]	Balthazar	633	I hold your dainties cheap, sir, and your welcome dear.
5	Comedy of Errors [III, 2]	Luciana	834	O, soft, air! hold you still: I'll fetch my sister, to get her good will.
6	Comedy of Errors [IV, 2]	Adriana	1090	I cannot, nor I will not, hold me still; My tongue, though not my heart, shall have his will. He is deformed, crooked, old and sere, Ill-faced, worse bodied, shapeless everywhere; Vicious, ungentle, foolish, blunt, unkind; Stigmatical in making, worse in mind.
7	Comedy of Errors [IV, 4]	Officer	1270	Good, now, hold thy tongue.
8	Comedy of Errors [IV, 4]	Dromio of Ephesus	1271	Nay, rather persuade him to hold his hands.
9	Comedy of Errors [V, 1]	Adriana	1459	Hold, hurt him not, for God's sake! he is mad. Some get within him, take his sword away: Bind Dromio too, and bear them to my house.
10	Comedy of Errors [V, 1]	Adriana	1521	She did betray me to my own reproof. Good people enter and lay hold on him.

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