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The Merry Wives of Windsor: Act 5 Scene 3

Scene III 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!

[Exeunt]