The Merry Wives of Windsor The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] · William Shakespeare
SCENE VI. _The same. Another room in the Garter Inn._
_Host._ Which means she to deceive, father or mother? _Fent._ Both, my good host, to go along with me: And here it rests,--that you’ll procure the vicar To stay for me at church ’twixt twelve and one, And, in the lawful name of marrying, 50 To give our hearts united ceremony. _Host._ Well, husband your device; I’ll to the vicar: Bring you the maid, you shall not lack a priest. _Fent._ So shall I evermore be bound to thee; Besides, I’ll make a present recompense. [_Exeunt._ 55 SCENE VI.] Ff Q3. SCENE XI. Pope. Theobald continues Sc. 5. The same] Another room. Capell. 14: _whereof_] _whereof’s_ Pope. 16: _fat Falstaff_] F1 Q3. _wherein fat Falstaff_ (Q1 Q2) Malone. _fat sir John Falstaffe_ F2 F3 F4. _fat Falstaff, he_ S. Walker conj. _therein fat Falstaff_ Id. conj. 17: _scene_] _scare_ (Q1 Q2). _share_ S. Verges conj. _scene in it_ Capell. 27: _even_] _ever_ Pope. 39: _denote_] Capell (Steevens conj.). _devote_ Ff Q3. 50: _marrying_] _marriage_ S. Walker conj. 51: _ceremony_] _matrimony_ (Q1 Q2).
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