The Merry Wives of Windsor (1597-8)

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Date variant: 1597
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Act V, Scene 3

A street leading to the Park.

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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Act V, Scene 3

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