# 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

Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 1]

Robert Shallow

757

Sir, there is a fray to be fought between Sir Hugh
the Welsh priest and Caius the French doctor.

2

Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 1]

Host

1284

Peace, I say, Gallia and Gaul, French and Welsh,
soul-curer and body-curer!

3

Merry Wives of Windsor
[V, 3]

Mistress Ford

2539

Where is Nan now and her troop of fairies, and the
Welsh devil Hugh?

4

Merry Wives of Windsor
[V, 5]

Falstaff

2645

Heavens defend me from that Welsh fairy, lest he
transform me to a piece of cheese!

5

Merry Wives of Windsor
[V, 5]

Falstaff

2710

Have I laid my brain in the sun and dried it, that
it wants matter to prevent so gross o'erreaching as
this? Am I ridden with a Welsh goat too? shall I
have a coxcomb of frize? 'Tis time I were choked
with a piece of toasted cheese.

6

Merry Wives of Windsor
[V, 5]

Falstaff

2733

Well, I am your theme: you have the start of me; I
am dejected; I am not able to answer the Welsh
flannel; ignorance itself is a plummet o'er me: use
me as you will.