# 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.

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1

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 3]

Pistol

349

He hath studied her will, and translated her will,
out of honesty into English.

2

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 4]

Hostess Quickly

405

What, John Rugby! I pray thee, go to the casement,
and see if you can see my master, Master Doctor
Caius, coming. If he do, i' faith, and find any
body in the house, here will be an old abusing of
God's patience and the king's English.

3

Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 1]

Page

699

'The humour of it,' quoth a'! here's a fellow
frights English out of his wits.

4

Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 3]

Host

1153

Mock-water, in our English tongue, is valour, bully.

5

Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 1]

Host

1265

Disarm them, and let them question: let them keep
their limbs whole and hack our English.

6

Merry Wives of Windsor
[IV, 3]

Host

2185

What duke should that be comes so secretly? I hear
not of him in the court. Let me speak with the
gentlemen: they speak English?

7

Merry Wives of Windsor
[V, 5]

Ford

2708

I will never mistrust my wife again till thou art
able to woo her in good English.

8

Merry Wives of Windsor
[V, 5]

Falstaff

2716

'Seese' and 'putter'! have I lived to stand at the
taunt of one that makes fritters of English? This
is enough to be the decay of lust and late-walking
through the realm.