# 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, 1]

(stage directions)

1

[Enter SHALLOW, SLENDER, and SIR HUGH EVANS]

2

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

(stage directions)

67

[Enter PAGE]

3

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

(stage directions)

101

[Enter FALSTAFF, BARDOLPH, NYM, and PISTOL]

4

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

Falstaff

168

You hear all these matters denied, gentlemen; you hear it.
[Enter ANNE PAGE, with wine; MISTRESS FORD]
and MISTRESS PAGE, following]

5

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

Slender

182

I had rather than forty shillings I had my Book of
Songs and Sonnets here.
[Enter SIMPLE]
How now, Simple! where have you been? I must wait
on myself, must I? You have not the Book of Riddles
about you, have you?

6

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 2]

(stage directions)

290

[Enter SIR HUGH EVANS and SIMPLE]

7

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 3]

(stage directions)

304

[Enter FALSTAFF, Host, BARDOLPH, NYM, PISTOL,]
and ROBIN]

8

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 4]

(stage directions)

404

[Enter MISTRESS QUICKLY, SIMPLE, and RUGBY]

9

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 4]

(stage directions)

447

[Enter DOCTOR CAIUS]

10

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 4]

(stage directions)

535

[Enter FENTON]

11

Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 1]

(stage directions)

567

[Enter MISTRESS PAGE, with a letter]

12

Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 1]

(stage directions)

599

[Enter MISTRESS FORD]

13

Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 1]

(stage directions)

669

[Enter FORD with PISTOL, and PAGE with NYM]

14

Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 1]

(stage directions)

720

[Enter MISTRESS QUICKLY]

15

Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 1]

Page

745

Look where my ranting host of the Garter comes:
there is either liquor in his pate or money in his
purse when he looks so merrily.
[Enter Host]
How now, mine host!

16

Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 1]

(stage directions)

752

[Enter SHALLOW]

17

Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 2]

(stage directions)

795

[Enter FALSTAFF and PISTOL]

18

Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 2]

(stage directions)

825

[Enter ROBIN]

19

Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 2]

(stage directions)

828

[Enter MISTRESS QUICKLY]

20

Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 2]

(stage directions)

937

[Enter BARDOLPH]