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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]

Robert Shallow

224

Nay, conceive me, conceive me, sweet coz: what I do
is to pleasure you, coz. Can you love the maid?

2

Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 1]

Mistress Ford

710

How now, sweet Frank! why art thou melancholy?

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
[III, 1]

Slender

1232

[Aside] Ah, sweet Anne Page!

5

Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 1]

Robert Shallow

1259

[Aside] O sweet Anne Page!

6

Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 1]

Slender

1300

[Aside] O sweet Anne Page!

7

Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 3]

Mistress Ford

1447

O sweet Sir John!

8

Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 4]

Fenton

1630

I see I cannot get thy father's love;
Therefore no more turn me to him, sweet Nan.

9

Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 4]

Fenton

1731

I thank thee; and I pray thee, once to-night
Give my sweet Nan this ring: there's for thy pains.

10

Merry Wives of Windsor
[IV, 2]

Mistress Ford

1974

He's a-birding, sweet Sir John.

11

Merry Wives of Windsor
[IV, 2]

Mistress Ford

2038

Go, go, sweet Sir John: Mistress Page and I will
look some linen for your head.

12

Merry Wives of Windsor
[IV, 2]

Mistress Ford

2134

Nay, good, sweet husband! Good gentlemen, let him
not strike the old woman.

13

Merry Wives of Windsor
[IV, 6]

Fenton

2430

From time to time I have acquainted you
With the dear love I bear to fair Anne Page;
Who mutually hath answer'd my affection,
So far forth as herself might be her chooser,
Even to my wish: I have a letter from her
Of such contents as you will wonder at;
The mirth whereof so larded with my matter,
That neither singly can be manifested,
Without the show of both; fat Falstaff
Hath a great scene: the image of the jest
I'll show you here at large. Hark, good mine host.
To-night at Herne's oak, just 'twixt twelve and one,
Must my sweet Nan present the Fairy Queen;
The purpose why, is here: in which disguise,
While other jests are something rank on foot,
Her father hath commanded her to slip
Away with Slender and with him at Eton
Immediately to marry: she hath consented: Now, sir,
Her mother, ever strong against that match
And firm for Doctor Caius, hath appointed
That he shall likewise shuffle her away,
While other sports are tasking of their minds,
And at the deanery, where a priest attends,
Straight marry her: to this her mother's plot
She seemingly obedient likewise hath
Made promise to the doctor. Now, thus it rests:
Her father means she shall be all in white,
And in that habit, when Slender sees his time
To take her by the hand and bid her go,
She shall go with him: her mother hath intended,
The better to denote her to the doctor,
For they must all be mask'd and vizarded,
That quaint in green she shall be loose enrobed,
With ribands pendent, flaring 'bout her head;
And when the doctor spies his vantage ripe,
To pinch her by the hand, and, on that token,
The maid hath given consent to go with him.