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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]

Page

171

Nay, daughter, carry the wine in; we'll drink within.

2

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

Page

178

Wife, bid these gentlemen welcome. Come, we have a
hot venison pasty to dinner: come, gentlemen, I hope
we shall drink down all unkindness.

3

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

Slender

273

That's meat and drink to me, now. I have seen
Sackerson loose twenty times, and have taken him by
the chain; but, I warrant you, the women have so
cried and shrieked at it, that it passed: but women,
indeed, cannot abide 'em; they are very ill-favored
rough things.

4

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 3]

Nym

326

He was gotten in drink: is not the humour conceited?

5

Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 4]

Hostess Quickly

491

[Aside to SIMPLE] I am glad he is so quiet: if he
had been thoroughly moved, you should have heard him
so loud and so melancholy. But notwithstanding,
man, I'll do you your master what good I can: and
the very yea and the no is, the French doctor, my
master,—I may call him my master, look you, for I
keep his house; and I wash, wring, brew, bake,
scour, dress meat and drink, make the beds and do
all myself,—

6

Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 2]

Host

1396

Farewell, my hearts: I will to my honest knight
Falstaff, and drink canary with him.

7

Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 2]

Ford

1399

[Aside] I think I shall drink in pipe wine first
with him; I'll make him dance. Will you go, gentles?