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Will you go, gentles?

ALL
Have with you to see this monster.
Exeunt.

Scene III IT

Enter Mistress Ford and Mistress Page.

MISTRESS FORD
What, John! What, Robert!

MISTRESS PAGE
Quickly, quickly, is the buck-basket −

MISTRESS FORD
I warrant. What, Robin, I say!

[Enter John and Robert with a basket.]

MISTRESS PAGE
Come, come, come.

MISTRESS FORD
Here, set it down. [5]

MISTRESS PAGE

Give your men the charge; we must be brief.

MISTRESS FORD

Marry, as I told you before, John and Robert, be ready here hard by in the
brew-house, and when I suddenly call you, come forth, and, without any
pause or [10] staggering, take this basket on your shoulders. That done,
trudge with it in all haste, and carry it among the whitsters in Datchet Mead,

and there empty it in the muddy ditch close by the Thames side.