# 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."

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1

Henry IV, Part I
[I, 2]

Falstaff

210

Why, Hal, 'tis my vocation, Hal; 'tis no sin for a
man to labour in his vocation.
[Enter POINS]
Poins! Now shall we know if Gadshill have set a
match. O, if men were to be saved by merit, what
hole in hell were hot enough for him? This is the
most omnipotent villain that ever cried 'Stand' to
a true man.

2

Henry IV, Part I
[I, 2]

(stage directions)

297

[Exit Poins]

3

Henry IV, Part I
[II, 2]

(stage directions)

740

[Enter PRINCE HENRY and POINS]

4

Henry IV, Part I
[II, 2]

Falstaff

745

Poins! Poins, and be hanged! Poins!

5

Henry IV, Part I
[II, 2]

Falstaff

748

Where's Poins, Hal?

6

Henry IV, Part I
[II, 2]

Falstaff

750

I am accursed to rob in that thief's company: the
rascal hath removed my horse, and tied him I know
not where. If I travel but four foot by the squier
further afoot, I shall break my wind. Well, I doubt
not but to die a fair death for all this, if I
'scape hanging for killing that rogue. I have
forsworn his company hourly any time this two and
twenty years, and yet I am bewitched with the
rogue's company. If the rascal hath not given me
medicines to make me love him, I'll be hanged; it
could not be else: I have drunk medicines. Poins!
Hal! a plague upon you both! Bardolph! Peto!
I'll starve ere I'll rob a foot further. An 'twere
not as good a deed as drink, to turn true man and to
leave these rogues, I am the veriest varlet that
ever chewed with a tooth. Eight yards of uneven
ground is threescore and ten miles afoot with me;
and the stony-hearted villains know it well enough:
a plague upon it when thieves cannot be true one to another!
[They whistle]
Whew! A plague upon you all! Give me my horse, you
rogues; give me my horse, and be hanged!

7

Henry IV, Part I
[II, 2]

Henry V

799

Sirs, you four shall front them in the narrow lane;
Ned Poins and I will walk lower: if they 'scape
from your encounter, then they light on us.

8

Henry IV, Part I
[II, 2]

(stage directions)

815

[Exeunt PRINCE HENRY and POINS]

9

Henry IV, Part I
[II, 2]

(stage directions)

832

[Re-enter PRINCE HENRY and POINS]

10

Henry IV, Part I
[II, 2]

Falstaff

839

Come, my masters, let us share, and then to horse
before day. An the Prince and Poins be not two
arrant cowards, there's no equity stirring: there's
no more valour in that Poins than in a wild-duck.

11

Henry IV, Part I
[II, 2]

Edward Poins

844

Villains!
[As they are sharing, the Prince and Poins set upon
them; they all run away; and Falstaff, after a blow
or two, runs away too, leaving the booty behind them]

12

Henry IV, Part I
[II, 4]

(stage directions)

984

[Enter PRINCE HENRY and POINS]

13

Henry IV, Part I
[II, 4]

(stage directions)

1022

[Exit POINS]

14

Henry IV, Part I
[II, 4]

Henry V

1072

Let them alone awhile, and then open the door.
[Exit Vintner]
Poins!

15

Henry IV, Part I
[II, 4]

(stage directions)

1075

[Re-enter POINS]

16

Henry IV, Part I
[II, 4]

Falstaff

1131

Are not you a coward? answer me to that: and Poins there?

17

Henry IV, Part I
[II, 4]

Falstaff

1449

But to say I know more harm in him than in myself,
were to say more than I know. That he is old, the
more the pity, his white hairs do witness it; but
that he is, saving your reverence, a whoremaster,
that I utterly deny. If sack and sugar be a fault,
God help the wicked! if to be old and merry be a
sin, then many an old host that I know is damned: if
to be fat be to be hated, then Pharaoh's lean kine
are to be loved. No, my good lord; banish Peto,
banish Bardolph, banish Poins: but for sweet Jack
Falstaff, kind Jack Falstaff, true Jack Falstaff,
valiant Jack Falstaff, and therefore more valiant,
being, as he is, old Jack Falstaff, banish not him
thy Harry's company, banish not him thy Harry's
company: banish plump Jack, and banish all the world.

18

Henry IV, Part II
[II, 2]

(stage directions)

944

Enter PRINCE HENRY and POINS

19

Henry IV, Part II
[II, 2]

Henry V

986

Shall I tell thee one thing, Poins?

20

Henry IV, Part II
[II, 2]

Henry V

1095

[Reads] 'I commend me to thee, I commend thee, and I
leave thee. Be not too familiar with Poins; for he misuses
favours so much that he swears thou art to marry his sister
Repent at idle times as thou mayst, and so farewell.
Thine, by yea and no—which is as much as to say as
thou usest him—JACK FALSTAFF with my familiars,
JOHN with my brothers and sisters, and SIR JOHN with
all Europe.'