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King Stephen was a worthy peer,
His breeches cost him but a crown;
He held them sixpence all too dear,ù
With that he called the tailor lown.

— Othello, Act II Scene 3

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# 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.	Text The line's full text, with keywords highlighted within it, unless highlighting has been disabled by the user.
1	Merry Wives of Windsor [I, 1]	Sir Hugh Evans	46	It is that fery person for all the orld, as just as you will desire; and seven hundred pounds of moneys, and gold and silver, is her grandsire upon his death's-bed—Got deliver to a joyful resurrections! —give, when she is able to overtake seventeen years old: it were a goot motion if we leave our pribbles and prabbles, and desire a marriage between Master Abraham and Mistress Anne Page.
2	Merry Wives of Windsor [I, 1]	Slender	54	Did her grandsire leave her seven hundred pound?
3	Merry Wives of Windsor [I, 1]	Falstaff	175	Mistress Ford, by my troth, you are very well met: by your leave, good mistress.
4	Merry Wives of Windsor [I, 4]	Doctor Caius	465	By my trot, I tarry too long. Od's me! Qu'ai-j'oublie! dere is some simples in my closet, dat I vill not for the varld I shall leave behind.
5	Merry Wives of Windsor [I, 4]	Hostess Quickly	523	Sir, the maid loves you, and all shall be well. We must give folks leave to prate: what, the good-jer!
6	Merry Wives of Windsor [II, 2]	Falstaff	953	You're welcome. What's your will? Give us leave, drawer.
7	Merry Wives of Windsor [III, 2]	Mistress Page	1336	By your leave, sir: I am sick till I see her.
8	Merry Wives of Windsor [III, 4]	Robert Shallow	1682	Marry, I thank you for it; I thank you for that good comfort. She calls you, coz: I'll leave you.
9	Merry Wives of Windsor [III, 5]	Hostess Quickly	1771	By your leave; I cry you mercy: give your worship good morrow.
10	Merry Wives of Windsor [III, 5]	Falstaff	1863	Master Brook, I will be thrown into Etna, as I have been into Thames, ere I will leave her thus. Her husband is this morning gone a-birding: I have received from her another embassy of meeting; 'twixt eight and nine is the hour, Master Brook.
11	Merry Wives of Windsor [IV, 1]	Sir Hugh Evans	1901	No; Master Slender is let the boys leave to play.
12	Merry Wives of Windsor [IV, 1]	Sir Hugh Evans	1933	Leave your prabbles, 'oman. What is the focative case, William?
13	Merry Wives of Windsor [IV, 2]	Mistress Page	2060	Hang him, dishonest varlet! we cannot misuse him enough. We'll leave a proof, by that which we will do, Wives may be merry, and yet honest too: We do not act that often jest and laugh; 'Tis old, but true, Still swine eat all the draff.
14	Merry Wives of Windsor [V, 5]	Sir Hugh Evans	2704	Sir John Falstaff, serve Got, and leave your desires, and fairies will not pinse you.
15	Merry Wives of Windsor [V, 5]	Sir Hugh Evans	2707	And leave your jealousies too, I pray you.

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