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Between two hawks, which flies the higher pitch;
Between two dogs, which hath the deeper mouth;
Between two blades, which bears the better temper;
Between two horses, which doth bear him best;
Between two girls, which hath the merriest eye,&1

— King Henry VI. Part I, Act II Scene 4

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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	Merry Wives of Windsor [I, 1]	Slender	138	Ay, by these gloves, did he, or I would I might never come in mine own great chamber again else, of seven groats in mill-sixpences, and two Edward shovel-boards, that cost me two shilling and two pence apiece of Yead Miller, by these gloves.
2	Merry Wives of Windsor [I, 1]	Slender	237	Ay, or else I would I might be hanged, la!
3	Merry Wives of Windsor [II, 2]	Falstaff	799	Not a penny. I have been content, sir, you should lay my countenance to pawn; I have grated upon my good friends for three reprieves for you and your coach-fellow Nym; or else you had looked through the grate, like a geminy of baboons. I am damned in hell for swearing to gentlemen my friends, you were good soldiers and tall fellows; and when Mistress Bridget lost the handle of her fan, I took't upon mine honour thou hadst it not.
4	Merry Wives of Windsor [III, 1]	Sir Hugh Evans	1227	Pray you, give me my gown; or else keep it in your arms.
5	Merry Wives of Windsor [III, 3]	Mistress Ford	1458	A plain kerchief, Sir John: my brows become nothing else; nor that well neither.
6	Merry Wives of Windsor [III, 3]	Mistress Ford	1481	Nay, I must tell you, so you do; or else I could not be in that mind.
7	Merry Wives of Windsor [IV, 2]	Page	2115	No, nor nowhere else but in your brain.
8	Merry Wives of Windsor [V, 5]	Falstaff	2595	I think the devil will not have me damned, lest the oil that's in me should set hell on fire; he would never else cross me thus. [Enter SIR HUGH EVANS, disguised as before; PISTOL,] as Hobgoblin; MISTRESS QUICKLY, ANNE PAGE, and others, as Fairies, with tapers]
9	Merry Wives of Windsor [V, 5]	Slender	2751	Dispatched! I'll make the best in Gloucestershire know on't; would I were hanged, la, else.

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