# 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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1

Merry Wives of Windsor
[IV, 2]

Mistress Ford

2033

My maid's aunt, the fat woman of Brentford, has a
gown above.

2

Merry Wives of Windsor
[IV, 2]

Mistress Ford

2043

I would my husband would meet him in this shape: he
cannot abide the old woman of Brentford; he swears
she's a witch; forbade her my house and hath
threatened to beat her.

3

Merry Wives of Windsor
[IV, 2]

Mistress Page

2055

Nay, but he'll be here presently: let's go dress him
like the witch of Brentford.

4

Merry Wives of Windsor
[IV, 2]

Mistress Ford

2125

Nay, it is my maid's aunt of Brentford.

5

Merry Wives of Windsor
[IV, 5]

Simple

2319

Pray you, sir, was't not the wise woman of
Brentford?

6

Merry Wives of Windsor
[IV, 5]

Falstaff

2407

What tellest thou me of black and blue? I was
beaten myself into all the colours of the rainbow;
and I was like to be apprehended for the witch of
Brentford: but that my admirable dexterity of wit,
my counterfeiting the action of an old woman,
delivered me, the knave constable had set me i' the
stocks, i' the common stocks, for a witch.