# 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]

Falstaff

110

'Twere better for you if it were known in counsel:
you'll be laughed at.

2

Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 1]

Mistress Ford

605

Well, I do then; yet I say I could show you to the
contrary. O Mistress Page, give me some counsel!

3

Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 3]

Falstaff

1526

[Coming forward] Let me see't, let me see't, O, let
me see't! I'll in, I'll in. Follow your friend's
counsel. I'll in.

4

Merry Wives of Windsor
[IV, 6]

Host

2428

I will hear you, Master Fenton; and I will at the
least keep your counsel.