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1011 Merchant of Venice Lorenzo 5.1.121 Your husband is at hand. I ^hear his trumpet^. Lor. Your husband is at hand, I heare his Trumpet, 2542 5.1.122 5.1.122 5.1.122
1012 Merry Wives of Windsor Slender 1.1.165 I had rather than forty shillings I had my book of ^songs | and sonnets^ here. Slen. I had rather then forty shillings I had my booke | of Songs and Sonnets heere: 183 - 1.1.183 1.1.180 1.1.158
1013 Merry Wives of Windsor Falstaff 1.3.21 His thefts | were too open. His filching was like an ^unskillful singer: he kept | not time^. Fal. his | Thefts were too open: his filching was like an vnskilfull | Singer, he kept not time. 321 His stealth was… 1.3.23 1.3.22 1.3.17
1014 Merry Wives of Windsor Nim 1.3.24 The good humour is to steal at a ^minute’s rest^. Ni. The good humor is to steale at a minutes rest. 324 1.3.23 1.3.25 1.3.19
1015 Merry Wives of Windsor Mistress Quickly 1.4.37 [^Singing^] ‘And down, down, a-down’ Qu. (and downe, downe, adowne'a. &c. 436 - 1.4.39 [Sings.]… 1.4.39 (Sings)… 1.4.36 [Sings]…
1016 Merry Wives of Windsor Caius 1.4.38 Vat is you ^sing^? I do not like dese ^toys^. Ca. Vat is you sing? I doe not like des-toyes: 437 - 1.4.40 1.4.40 1.4.37
1017 Merry Wives of Windsor Mistress Ford 2.1.53 But | they do no more adhere and keep place together than the hundred | and fifty psalms to the ^tune of ‘Greensleeves’^. Mi. Ford. but they doe no more adhere and keep place | together, then the hundred Psalms to the tune of Green-sleeues: 606 - 2.1.54 …than the hundred psalms… 2.1.56 …than the Hundredth Psalm to the tune… 2.1.48 …than the Hundredth Psalm to the tune…
1018 Merry Wives of Windsor Pistol 2.1.111 Take heed ere summer comes, or ^cuckoo-birds do sing^. Pist. Take heed, ere sommer comes, or Cuckoo-birds do sing. 665 - take heed, | For sommer comes, and Cuckoo birds appeare: 2.1.112 2.1.115 2.1.103
1019 Merry Wives of Windsor Evans 3.1.12 [^Singing^] ‘To shallow rivers, to whose falls | ^Melodious birds sings madrigals^’ Euan. To shallow Ruiers [sic] to whose | falls: melodious Birds sings Madrigalls: 1174 To shallow riuers and to falles, | Melodious birds sing Madrigalles 3.1.16 [Sings.]… 3.1.16 (Sings)… 3.1.12 Q: line attrib. to Sir Hugh
1020 Merry Wives of Windsor Evans 3.1.19 [^Singing^] ‘^Melodious birds sing madrigals^,-- | When as I sat in Pabylon’ Euan. Melodious birds sing Madrigalls: --- When as I sat in Pabilon: | and a thousand vagram Posies. To shallow, &c. 1178 - 3.1.22 [Sings.]… 3.1.22 (Sings)… 3.1.18