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Here will be an old abusing of God's patience and the king's English.

— The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act I Scene 4

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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	Merchant of Venice [IV, 1]	Portia	2199	It is so. Are there balance here to weigh The flesh?