# 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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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.

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1

Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 3]

Mistress Page

1586

We will do it: let him be sent for to-morrow,
eight o'clock, to have amends.

2

Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 5]

Hostess Quickly

1785

Well, she laments, sir, for it, that it would yearn
your heart to see it. Her husband goes this morning
a-birding; she desires you once more to come to her
between eight and nine: I must carry her word
quickly: she'll make you amends, I warrant you.

3

Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 5]

Hostess Quickly

1795

Eight and nine, sir.

4

Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 5]

Falstaff

1863

Master Brook, I will be thrown into Etna, as I have
been into Thames, ere I will leave her thus. Her
husband is this morning gone a-birding: I have
received from her another embassy of meeting; 'twixt
eight and nine is the hour, Master Brook.

5

Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 5]

Ford

1868

'Tis past eight already, sir.