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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
[I, 1]

Sir Hugh Evans

23

It is marring indeed, if he quarter it.

2

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

Robert Shallow

96

If it be confessed, it is not redress'd: is not that
so, Master Page? He hath wronged me; indeed he
hath, at a word, he hath, believe me: Robert
Shallow, esquire, saith, he is wronged.

3

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

Anne Page

272

Ay, indeed, sir.

4

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

Slender

273

That's meat and drink to me, now. I have seen
Sackerson loose twenty times, and have taken him by
the chain; but, I warrant you, the women have so
cried and shrieked at it, that it passed: but women,
indeed, cannot abide 'em; they are very ill-favored
rough things.

5

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

Slender

287

I'll rather be unmannerly than troublesome.
You do yourself wrong, indeed, la!

6

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 3]

Falstaff

341

No quips now, Pistol! Indeed, I am in the waist two
yards about; but I am now about no waste; I am about
thrift. Briefly, I do mean to make love to Ford's
wife: I spy entertainment in her; she discourses,
she carves, she gives the leer of invitation: I
can construe the action of her familiar style; and
the hardest voice of her behavior, to be Englished
rightly, is, 'I am Sir John Falstaff's.'

7

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 4]

Simple

433

Yes, indeed, does he.

8

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 4]

Hostess Quickly

486

This is all, indeed, la! but I'll ne'er put my
finger in the fire, and need not.

9

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.

10

Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 2]

Hostess Quickly

902

That were a jest indeed! they have not so little
grace, I hope: that were a trick indeed! but
Mistress Page would desire you to send her your
little page, of all loves: her husband has a
marvellous infection to the little page; and truly
Master Page is an honest man. Never a wife in
Windsor leads a better life than she does: do what
she will, say what she will, take all, pay all, go
to bed when she list, rise when she list, all is as
she will: and truly she deserves it; for if there
be a kind woman in Windsor, she is one. You must
send her your page; no remedy.

11

Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 2]

Mistress Page

1332

He, he; I can never hit on's name. There is such a
league between my good man and he! Is your wife at
home indeed?

12

Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 2]

Ford

1335

Indeed she is.

13

Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 4]

Slender

1687

My will! 'od's heartlings, that's a pretty jest
indeed! I ne'er made my will yet, I thank heaven; I
am not such a sickly creature, I give heaven praise.

14

Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 5]

Ford

1805

That, indeed, Sir John, is my business.

15

Merry Wives of Windsor
[IV, 2]

Mistress Page

1981

Indeed!

16

Merry Wives of Windsor
[IV, 2]

Robert Shallow

2085

Indeed, Master Ford, this is not well, indeed.

17

Merry Wives of Windsor
[IV, 2]

Sir Hugh Evans

2148

By the yea and no, I think the 'oman is a witch
indeed: I like not when a 'oman has a great peard;
I spy a great peard under his muffler.

18

Merry Wives of Windsor
[IV, 5]

Simple

2304

There's an old woman, a fat woman, gone up into his
chamber: I'll be so bold as stay, sir, till she come
down; I come to speak with her, indeed.

19

Merry Wives of Windsor
[V, 5]

Mistress Page

2770

Good George, be not angry: I knew of your purpose;
turned my daughter into green; and, indeed, she is
now with the doctor at the deanery, and there married.