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Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.

— Julius Caesar, Act II Scene 2

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KEYWORD: alas

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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	Merry Wives of Windsor [I, 4]	Rugby	438	Out, alas! here comes my master.
2	Merry Wives of Windsor [I, 4]	Hostess Quickly	517	Alas, he speaks but for his friend.
3	Merry Wives of Windsor [II, 2]	Hostess Quickly	879	Ay, forsooth; and then you may come and see the picture, she says, that you wot of: Master Ford, her husband, will be from home. Alas! the sweet woman leads an ill life with him: he's a very jealousy man: she leads a very frampold life with him, good heart.
4	Merry Wives of Windsor [II, 3]	Rugby	1113	Alas, sir, I cannot fence.
5	Merry Wives of Windsor [III, 3]	Mistress Ford	1452	I your lady, Sir John! alas, I should be a pitiful lady!
6	Merry Wives of Windsor [III, 3]	Mistress Ford	1499	Why, alas, what's the matter?
7	Merry Wives of Windsor [III, 4]	Anne Page	1632	Alas, how then?
8	Merry Wives of Windsor [III, 4]	Anne Page	1718	Alas, I had rather be set quick i' the earth And bowl'd to death with turnips!
9	Merry Wives of Windsor [III, 5]	Hostess Quickly	1782	Alas the day! good heart, that was not her fault: she does so take on with her men; they mistook their erection.
10	Merry Wives of Windsor [IV, 2]	Mistress Page	2013	Alas, three of Master Ford's brothers watch the door with pistols, that none shall issue out; otherwise you might slip away ere he came. But what make you here?
11	Merry Wives of Windsor [IV, 2]	Mistress Page	2028	Alas the day, I know not! There is no woman's gown big enough for him otherwise he might put on a hat, a muffler and a kerchief, and so escape.
12	Merry Wives of Windsor [IV, 5]	Bardolph	2356	Out, alas, sir! cozenage, mere cozenage!
13	Merry Wives of Windsor [V, 5]	Mistress Page	2590	Alas, what noise?

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