# 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

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

Robert Shallow

7

Ay, cousin Slender, and 'Custalourum.

2

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

Slender

123

Where's Simple, my man? Can you tell, cousin?

3

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

Slender

201

Nay, I will do as my cousin Shallow says: I pray
you, pardon me; he's a justice of peace in his
country, simple though I stand here.

4

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

Robert Shallow

215

Cousin Abraham Slender, can you love her?

5

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

Slender

222

I will do a greater thing than that, upon your
request, cousin, in any reason.

6

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

Robert Shallow

236

Ay, I think my cousin meant well.

7

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

Slender

249

I am not a-hungry, I thank you, forsooth. Go,
sirrah, for all you are my man, go wait upon my
cousin Shallow.
[Exit SIMPLE]
A justice of peace sometimes may be beholding to his
friend for a man. I keep but three men and a boy
yet, till my mother be dead: but what though? Yet I
live like a poor gentleman born.

8

Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 2]

Robert Shallow

1368

We have lingered about a match between Anne Page and
my cousin Slender, and this day we shall have our answer.

9

Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 4]

Robert Shallow

1674

Mistress Anne, my cousin loves you.