# Result number

Work The work is either a play, poem, or sonnet. The sonnets are treated as single work with 154 parts.

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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]

Falstaff

311

I sit at ten pounds a week.

2

Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 2]

Hostess Quickly

874

Marry, she hath received your letter, for the which
she thanks you a thousand times; and she gives you
to notify that her husband will be absence from his
house between ten and eleven.

3

Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 2]

Falstaff

878

Ten and eleven?

4

Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 2]

Falstaff

885

Ten and eleven. Woman, commend me to her; I will
not fail her.

5

Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 2]

Falstaff

1045

Want no Mistress Ford, Master Brook; you shall want
none. I shall be with her, I may tell you, by her
own appointment; even as you came in to me, her
assistant or go-between parted from me: I say I
shall be with her between ten and eleven; for at
that time the jealous rascally knave her husband
will be forth. Come you to me at night; you shall
know how I speed.

6

Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 5]

Falstaff

1794

Do so. Between nine and ten, sayest thou?

7

Merry Wives of Windsor
[V, 2]

Robert Shallow

2519

That's good too: but what needs either your 'mum'
or her 'budget?' the white will decipher her well
enough. It hath struck ten o'clock.