The Merry Wives of Windsor The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] · William Shakespeare
SCENE III. _A street leading to the Park._
_Enter MISTRESS PAGE, MISTRESS FORD, and DOCTOR CAIUS._ _Mrs Page._ Master doctor, my daughter is in green: when you see your time, take her by the hand, away with her to the deanery, and dispatch it quickly. Go before into the Park: we two must go together. _Caius._ I know vat I have to do. Adieu. 5 _Mrs Page._ Fare you well, sir. [_Exit 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. 10 _Mrs Ford._ Where is Nan now and her troop of fairies, and the Welsh devil Hugh? _Mrs 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 15 display to the night. _Mrs Ford._ That cannot choose but amaze him. _Mrs Page._ If he be not amazed, he will be mocked; if he be amazed, he will every way be mocked. _Mrs Ford._ We’ll betray him finely. 20 _Mrs Page._ Against such lewdsters and their lechery Those that betray them do no treachery. _Mrs Ford._ The hour draws on. To the oak, to the oak! [_Exeunt._ SCENE III.] SCENE II. Pope. A street, &c.] [Another street, &c. Capell.] 12: _Hugh_] Capell. _Herne_ Ff Q3. _Evans_ Theobald (Thirlby conj.). 19: _every way_] F1 Q3. om. F2 F3 F4. _Enter SIR HUGH EVANS disguised, with others as Fairies._ _Evans._ Trib, trib, fairies; come; and remember your parts: be pold, I pray you; follow me into the pit; and when I give the watch-’ords, do as I pid you: come, come; trib, trib. [_Exeunt._ SCENE IV.] SCENE II. continued in Pope. 3: _pid_] F1 Q3. _bid_ F2 F3 F4.
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