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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]

Robert Shallow

2

Sir Hugh, persuade me not; I will make a Star-
chamber matter of it: if he were twenty Sir John
Falstaffs, he shall not abuse Robert Shallow, esquire.

2

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

Robert Shallow

24

Not a whit.

3

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

Sir Hugh Evans

33

It is not meet the council hear a riot; there is no
fear of Got in a riot: the council, look you, shall
desire to hear the fear of Got, and not to hear a
riot; take your vizaments in that.

4

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

Sir Hugh Evans

59

Shall I tell you a lie? I do despise a liar as I do
despise one that is false, or as I despise one that
is not true. The knight, Sir John, is there; and, I
beseech you, be ruled by your well-willers. I will
peat the door for Master Page.
[Knocks]
What, hoa! Got pless your house here!

5

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

Page

83

It could not be judged, sir.

6

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

Slender

84

You'll not confess, you'll not confess.

7

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

Robert Shallow

85

That he will not. 'Tis your fault, 'tis your fault;
'tis a good dog.

8

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.

9

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

Falstaff

105

But not kissed your keeper's daughter?

10

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

Slender

153

By this hat, then, he in the red face had it; for
though I cannot remember what I did when you made me
drunk, yet I am not altogether an ass.

11

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

Slender

162

Ay, you spake in Latin then too; but 'tis no
matter: I'll ne'er be drunk whilst I live again,
but in honest, civil, godly company, for this trick:
if I be drunk, I'll be drunk with those that have
the fear of God, and not with drunken knaves.

12

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?

13

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

Simple

188

Book of Riddles! why, did you not lend it to Alice
Shortcake upon All-hallowmas last, a fortnight
afore Michaelmas?

14

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

Sir Hugh Evans

204

But that is not the question: the question is
concerning your marriage.

15

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

Sir Hugh Evans

244

Od's plessed will! I will not be absence at the grace.

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Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

Slender

249

I am not a-hungry, I thank you, forsooth. Go,
sirrah, for all you are my man, go wait upon my
cousin Shallow.
[Exit SIMPLE]
A justice of peace sometimes may be beholding to his
friend for a man. I keep but three men and a boy
yet, till my mother be dead: but what though? Yet I
live like a poor gentleman born.

17

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

Anne Page

257

I may not go in without your worship: they will not
sit till you come.

18

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

Slender

269

I love the sport well but I shall as soon quarrel at
it as any man in England. You are afraid, if you see
the bear loose, are you not?

19

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

Page

282

By cock and pie, you shall not choose, sir! come, come.

20

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

Anne Page

286

Not I, sir; pray you, keep on.