Act V · Scene III
A street leading to the Park.
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Enter MISTRESS PAGE, MISTRESS FORD, and DOCTOR CAIUS
MISTRESS PAGE
Master doctor, my daughter is in green: when yousee your time, take her by the band, away with herto the deanery, and dispatch it quickly. Go beforeinto 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
MISTRESS PAGE
My husband will not rejoice so much at the abuse ofFalstaff as he will chafe at the doctor's marryingmy daughter: but 'tis no matter; better a littlechiding than a great deal of heart-break.
MISTRESS FORD
Where is Nan now and her troop of fairies, and theWelsh devil Hugh?
MISTRESS PAGE
They are all couched in a pit hard by Herne's oak,with obscured lights; which, at the very instant ofFalstaff's and our meeting, they will at oncedisplay to the night.
MISTRESS FORD
That cannot choose but amaze him.
MISTRESS PAGE
If he be not amazed, he will be mocked; if he beamazed, he will every way be mocked.
MISTRESS FORD
We'll betray him finely.
MISTRESS PAGE
Against such lewdsters and their lecheryThose that betray them do no treachery.
MISTRESS FORD
The hour draws on. To the oak, to the oak!
Exeunt