# 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]

Slender

56

I know the young gentlewoman; she has good gifts.

2

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 4]

Simple

483

To desire this honest gentlewoman, your maid, to
speak a good word to Mistress Anne Page for my
master in the way of marriage.

3

Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 2]

Ford

982

There is a gentlewoman in this town; her husband's
name is Ford.

4

Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 4]

Robert Shallow

1677

He will maintain you like a gentlewoman.