The Merry Wives of Windsor
Act V, Scene 3
A street leading to the Windsor Park.
Ellen Terry as Mistress Page
Window & Grove, circa 1902
- Enter Mistress Page, Mistress Ford, Caius.
Mistress Page
1 - 4- 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
5- I know vat I have to do. Adieu.
Mistress Page
6 - 10- 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.
Mistress Ford
11 - 12- Where is Nan now, and her troop of fairies, and the Welsh
- devil Hugh?
Mistress Page
13 - 15- They are all couch’d in a pit hard by Herne’s oak, with
- obscur’d lights; which, at the very instant of Falstaff’s
- and our meeting, they will at once display to the night.
Mistress Ford
16- That cannot choose but amaze him.
Mistress Page
17 - 18- If he be not amaz’d, he will be mock’d; if he be amaz’d, he
- will every way be mock’d.
Mistress Ford
19- We’ll betray him finely.
Mistress Page
20 - 21- Against such lewdsters, and their lechery,
- Those that betray them do no treachery.
Mistress Ford
22- The hour draws on. To the oak, to the oak!
- Exeunt.
Mrs. Ford
Matthew William Peters, 19th century