# 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
[II, 1]

Mistress Ford

712

Faith, thou hast some crotchets in thy head. Now,
will you go, Mistress Page?

2

Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 1]

Host

768

Hast thou no suit against my knight, my
guest-cavaleire?

3

Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 3]

Falstaff

1453

Let the court of France show me such another. I see
how thine eye would emulate the diamond: thou hast
the right arched beauty of the brow that becomes the
ship-tire, the tire-valiant, or any tire of
Venetian admittance.

4

Merry Wives of Windsor
[IV, 1]

Sir Hugh Evans

1950

'Oman, art thou lunatics? hast thou no
understandings for thy cases and the numbers of the
genders? Thou art as foolish Christian creatures as
I would desires.