A street leading to the Park.
[Enter MISTRESS PAGE, MISTRESS
FORD, and DOCTOR CAIUS]
MISTRESS PAGE
Master doctor, my daughter is in green:
when you see your time, take her by the band, away with
her to the deanery, and dispatch it quickly. Go before
into the Park: we two must go together.
DOCTOR CAIUS I know vat I have to do. Adieu.
MISTRESS PAGE Fare you well, sir.
[Exit DOCTOR CAIUS]
My husband will not rejoice so much at the abuse of
Falstaff as he will chafe at the doctor’s marrying
my daughter: but ’tis no matter; better a little
chiding than a great deal of heart-break.
MISTRESS FORD Where is Nan now and her troop of fairies,
and the Welsh devil Hugh?
MISTRESS PAGE They are all couched in a pit hard
by Herne’s oak, with obscured lights; which, at the very
instant of Falstaff’s and our meeting, they will at once
display to the night.
MISTRESS FORD That cannot choose but amaze him.
MISTRESS PAGE If he be not amazed, he will be mocked;
if he be amazed, he will every way be mocked.
MISTRESS FORD We’ll betray him finely.
MISTRESS PAGE Against such lewdsters and their lechery
Those that betray them do no treachery.
MISTRESS FORD The hour draws on. To the oak, to the oak!
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