# 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
[I, 4]

Hostess Quickly

548

Well, thereby hangs a tale: good faith, it is such
another Nan; but, I detest, an honest maid as ever
broke bread: we had an hour's talk of that wart. I
shall never laugh but in that maid's company! But
indeed she is given too much to allicholy and
musing: but for you—well, go to.

2

Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 1]

Mistress Page

723

Go in with us and see: we have an hour's talk with
you.

3

Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 4]

Robert Shallow

1655

Break their talk, Mistress Quickly: my kinsman shall
speak for himself.

4

Merry Wives of Windsor
[IV, 2]

Mistress Ford

1995

Why, does he talk of him?

5

Merry Wives of Windsor
[IV, 6]

Host

2423

Master Fenton, talk not to me; my mind is heavy: I
will give over all.