1H4 I.ii.10 | [Prince Hal to Falstaff] Unless hours were cups of sack ... and the blessed sun himself a fair hot wench in flame-coloured taffeta |
1H4 I.ii.40 | [Falstaff to Prince Hal] is not my Hostess of the tavern a most sweet wench? |
1H6 IV.vii.41 | [Pucelle to all, of what Young Talbot said of her] Young Talbot was not born / To be the pillage of a giglot wench |
2H4 II.i.148 | [Falstaff to Hostess] an 'twere not for thy humours, there's not a better wench in England |
2H4 II.ii.133 | [Poins to Prince Henry, of Poins' sister] God send the wench no worse fortune! |
2H4 II.iv.369 | [Falstaff to Hostess and Doll] You see, my good wenches, how men of merit are sought after |
2H4 IV.iii.93 | [Falstaff alone, of boys like King John] when they marry they get wenches |
AC I.ii.37 | [Charmian to Soothsayer] how many boys and wenches must I have? |
AC II.ii.231.2 | [Agrippa to Maecenas and Enobarbus, of Cleopatra] Royal wench! |
AW IV.iii.106 | [Second Lord to Bertram, of Parolles] he weeps like a wench that had shed her milk |
CE III.i.109 | [Antipholus of Ephesus to Balthasar] I know a wench of excellent discourse |
CE III.i.34 | [Dromio of Syracuse to Dromio of Ephesus] Dost thou conjure for wenches |
CE III.ii.99 | [Dromio of Syracuse to Antipholus of Syracuse, of the kitchen-maid] she's the kitchen wench, and all grease |
CE IV.iii.53 | [Dromio of Syracuse to Antipholus of Syracuse, of the Courtesan] here she comes in the habit of a light wench [and in following lines] |
H8 III.i.1 | [Queen Katherine to Gentlewoman] Take thy lute, wench |
H8 III.ii.295 | [Surrey to Wolsey] I'll startle you / Worse than the sacring bell, when the brown wench / Lay kissing in your arms |
H8 IV.ii.167 | [Katherine to Patience] When I am dead, good wench, / Let me be used with honour |
H8 IV.ii.81 | [Griffith to Patience] Good wench, let's sit down quiet |
JC I.ii.269 | [Casca to Brutus and Cassius] Three or four wenches, where I stood, cried, ‘Alas, good soul!’ |
KL III.ii.84 | [Fool alone] No heretics burned but wenches' suitors |
LLL I.i.253 | [Costard to King, admitting to whom he was with] With a wench |
Luc.1273 | [Lucrece to her maid] If thou dost weep for grief of my sustaining, / Know, gentle wench, it small avails my mood |
MM II.ii.124 | [Lucio aside to Isabella, of Angelo] to him, to him, wench |
MM IV.iii.166 | [Lucio to disguised Duke, of the Duke] I was once before him for getting a wench with child |
MV II.ii.154 | [Launcelot to Gobbo] if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear |
Oth III.iii.310.2 | [Iago to and of Emilia] A good wench! |
Oth V.ii.270 | [Othello to dead Desdemona] O ill-starred wench |
Per Chorus.IV.16 | [Gower alone] our Cleon hath / One daughter and a full-grown wench |
R3 I.i.155 | [Richard alone, of Warwick's daughter] The readiest way to make the wench amends / Is to become her husband and her father |
RJ II.iv.4 | [Mercutio to Benvolio] that same pale hard-hearted wench, that Rosaline [and in the following] |
RJ II.v.44 | [Nurse to Juliet] Go thy ways, wench |
RJ III.iii.143 | [Friar Laurence to and of Romeo] like a mishaved and sullen wench |
TC IV.ii.89 | [Pandarus to Cressida] Thou must be gone, wench |
TC V.ii.71 | [Cressida to Diomedes, of herself] O false wench! |
Tem I.i.47 | [Gonzalo to all, of the Boatswain] I'll warrant him for drowning, though the ship were no stronger than a nutshell and as leaky as an unstanched wench |
Tem I.ii.139.2 | [Prospero to Miranda, of her question] Well demanded, wench |
Tem I.ii.480 | [Prospero to Miranda] Foolish wench! |
Tem II.i.46 | [Antonio to Sebastian] Temperance was a delicate wench |
TG II.i.22 | [Speed to Valentine] to weep, like a young wench that had buried her grandam |
TG II.vii.59 | [Julia to Lucetta, of disguising herself as a man] But tell me, wench, how will the world repute me / For undertaking so unstaid a journey? |
TG III.i.301 | [Launce to Speed] What need a man care for a stock with a wench, when she can knit him a stock? |
Tit III.i.281 | [Titus to Lavinia] Bear thou my hand, sweet wench, between thy teeth |
TN I.iii.39 | [Sir Toby to Maria] What, wench! |
TN II.iii.171 | [Sir Andrew to Sir Toby, of Maria] Before me, she's a good wench |
TN II.v.108 | [Sir Toby to Fabian and Sir Andrew, of Maria] Excellent wench, say I! |
TN II.v.175 | [Sir Toby to Fabian and Sir Andrew, of Maria] I could marry this wench for this device |
TNK epilogue.6 | [Epilogue to audience] He that has / Loved a young handsome wench, then, show his face |
TNK II.i.178.2 | [Emilia to Woman] That's a good wench [and in the following] |
TNK II.ii.35 | [Third Countryman to First Countryman, of the latter's wife] you shall see her / Take a new lesson out, and be a good wench |
TNK II.iii.6 | [Gaoler's Daughter alone] What pushes are we wenches driven to / When fifteen once has found us! [and in the following] |
TNK III.iii.28 | [Palamon to Arcite] Here, Arcite, to the wenches / We have known in our days! |
TNK III.v.1.2 | [stage direction] Enter a Schoolmaster, six Countrymen, one dressed as a bavian, and five wenches |
TNK III.v.158 | [Schoolmaster to the women] Ye have danced rarely, wenches |
TNK IV.i.117.2 | [Gaoler to Gaoler's Daughter, of Palamon] Yes, wench, we know him |
TNK IV.ii.148 | [Hippolyta to Emilia, of Palamon and Arcite] Weep not till they weep blood, wench |
TNK V.ii.71.1 | [Doctor to Gaoler's Daughter] a day's journey, wench |
TS I.i.69 | [Tranio to Lucentio, of Katherina] That wench is stark mad or wonderful froward |
TS II.i.160 | [Petruchio to all, of Katherina] Now, by the world, it is a lusty wench |
TS II.i.242 | [Petruchio to Katherina] Thou canst not frown, thou canst not look askance, / Nor bite the lip, as angry wenches will |
TS III.ii.165 | [Tranio as Lucentio to Gremio, of Katherina and the priest] What said the wench when he rose up again? |
TS III.ii.237 | [Petruchio to Katherina, of the others] Fear not, sweet wench, they shall not touch thee |
TS IV.iv.95 | [Biondello to Lucentio] I knew a wench married in an afternoon |
TS V.ii.179 | [Petruchio to Katherina] Why, there's a wench! |
WT III.iii.61 | [Shepherd alone] getting wenches with child |
WT IV.iv.310 | [Clown to Dorcas and Mopsa] Wenches, I'll buy for you both |
WT IV.iv.602 | [Autolycus alone] My clown ... grew so in love with the wenches' song |