# Result number

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

As You Like It
[IV, 1]

Rosalind

1931

Or else she could not have the wit to do this. The wiser,
the waywarder. Make the doors upon a woman's wit, and it will out
at the casement; shut that, and 'twill out at the key-hole; stop
that, 'twill fly with the smoke out at the chimney.

2

Cymbeline
[II, 4]

Iachimo

1273

The chimney
Is south the chamber, and the chimney-piece
Chaste Dian bathing: never saw I figures
So likely to report themselves: the cutter
Was as another nature, dumb; outwent her,
Motion and breath left out.

3

Henry IV, Part I
[II, 1]

First Carrier

643

Heigh-ho! an it be not four by the day, I'll be
hanged: Charles' wain is over the new chimney, and
yet our horse not packed. What, ostler!

4

Henry IV, Part I
[II, 1]

Second Carrier

661

Why, they will allow us ne'er a jordan, and then we
leak in your chimney; and your chamber-lie breeds
fleas like a loach.

5

Henry VI, Part II
[IV, 2]

Smith the Weaver

2454

Sir, he made a chimney in my father's house, and
the bricks are alive at this day to testify it;
therefore deny it not.

6

Merry Wives of Windsor
[IV, 2]

Falstaff

2016

What shall I do? I'll creep up into the chimney.