The Merry Wives of Windsor The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] · William Shakespeare
SCENE II. _Windsor Park._
_Enter PAGE, SHALLOW, and SLENDER._ _Page._ Come, come; we’ll couch i’ the castle-ditch till we see the light of our fairies. Remember, son Slender, my daughter. _Slen._ Ay, forsooth; I have spoke with her, and we have a nay-word how to know one another: I come to her 5 in white, and cry, ‘mum;’ she cries ‘budget;’ and by that we know one another. _Shal._ That’s good too: but what needs either your ‘mum’ or her ‘budget?’ the white will decipher her well enough. It hath struck ten o’clock. 10 _Page._ The night is dark; light and spirits will become it well. Heaven prosper our sport! No man means evil but the devil, and we shall know him by his horns. Let’s away; follow me. [_Exeunt._ SCENE II.] ACT V. SCENE I. Pope. Windsor Park] Pope. [A street. Capell. 3: _daughter_] om. F1 Q3.
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