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For there was never yet philosopher
That could endure the toothache patiently.

— Much Ado about Nothing, Act V Scene 1

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KEYWORD: open

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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]	Robert Shallow	103	Knight, you have beaten my men, killed my deer, and broke open my lodge.
2	Merry Wives of Windsor [I, 3]	Falstaff	327	I am glad I am so acquit of this tinderbox: his thefts were too open; his filching was like an unskilful singer; he kept not time.
3	Merry Wives of Windsor [II, 1]	Pistol	682	The horn, I say. Farewell. Take heed, have open eye, for thieves do foot by night: Take heed, ere summer comes or cuckoo-birds do sing. Away, Sir Corporal Nym! Believe it, Page; he speaks sense.
4	Merry Wives of Windsor [II, 2]	Pistol	797	Why, then the world's mine oyster. Which I with sword will open.
5	Merry Wives of Windsor [II, 2]	Ford	957	Good Sir John, I sue for yours: not to charge you; for I must let you understand I think myself in better plight for a lender than you are: the which hath something embolden'd me to this unseasoned intrusion; for they say, if money go before, all ways do lie open.
6	Merry Wives of Windsor [II, 2]	Ford	971	Sir, I hear you are a scholar,—I will be brief with you,—and you have been a man long known to me, though I had never so good means, as desire, to make myself acquainted with you. I shall discover a thing to you, wherein I must very much lay open mine own imperfection: but, good Sir John, as you have one eye upon my follies, as you hear them unfolded, turn another into the register of your own; that I may pass with a reproof the easier, sith you yourself know how easy it is to be such an offender.
7	Merry Wives of Windsor [IV, 2]	Ford	2151	Will you follow, gentlemen? I beseech you, follow; see but the issue of my jealousy: if I cry out thus upon no trail, never trust me when I open again.

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