The Merry Wives of Windsor The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] · William Shakespeare
NOTES: SCENE XII
_Mis. For._ But who will buy the silkes to tyre the boyes? _Pa._ That will _I_ do, and in a robe of white Ile cloath my daughter, and aduertise _Slender_ To know her by that signe, and steale her thence, And vnknowne to my wife, shall marrie her. 40 _Hu._ So kad vdge me the deuises is excellent. _I_ will also be there, and will be like a {I}ackanapes, And pinch him most cruelly for his lecheries. _Mis. Pa._ Why then we are reuenged sufficiently. First he was carried and throwne in the Thames, 45 Next beaten well, _I_ am sure youle witnes that. _{M}i. {F}or._ Ile lay my life this makes him nothing fat. _{P}a._ Well lets about this stratagem, I long To see deceit deceiued, and wrong haue wrong. _For._ Well send to _{F}alstaffe_, and if he come thither, 50 Twill make vs smile and laugh one moneth togither. _Exit omnes._
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