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Work The work is either a play, poem, or sonnet. The sonnets are treated as single work with 154 parts.

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1

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

Sir Hugh Evans

46

It is that fery person for all the orld, as just as
you will desire; and seven hundred pounds of moneys,
and gold and silver, is her grandsire upon his
death's-bed—Got deliver to a joyful resurrections!
—give, when she is able to overtake seventeen years
old: it were a goot motion if we leave our pribbles
and prabbles, and desire a marriage between Master
Abraham and Mistress Anne Page.

2

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

Sir Hugh Evans

57

Seven hundred pounds and possibilities is goot gifts.

3

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 3]

Falstaff

311

I sit at ten pounds a week.

4

Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 4]

Anne Page

1663

I come to him.
[Aside]
This is my father's choice.
O, what a world of vile ill-favor'd faults
Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a-year!

5

Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 4]

Robert Shallow

1680

He will make you a hundred and fifty pounds jointure.

6

Merry Wives of Windsor
[V, 5]

Ford

2684

Now, sir, who's a cuckold now? Master Brook,
Falstaff's a knave, a cuckoldly knave; here are his
horns, Master Brook: and, Master Brook, he hath
enjoyed nothing of Ford's but his buck-basket, his
cudgel, and twenty pounds of money, which must be
paid to Master Brook; his horses are arrested for
it, Master Brook.