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MISTRESS FORD
Pray you do so; she’s a very tattling woman.
Falstaff hides behind the arras.
[Enter Mistress Page.]
What’s the matter? How now? [85]
MISTRESS PAGE
O Mistress Ford, what have you done? You’re shamed, you’re overthrown,
you’re undone for ever!
MISTRESS FORD
What’s the matter, good Mistress Page?
MISTRESS PAGE
O well-a-day, Mistress Ford, having an [90] honest man to your husband, to
give him such cause of suspicion!
MISTRESS FORD
What cause of suspicion?
MISTRESS PAGE
What cause of suspicion? Out upon you: how am I mistook in you! [95]
MISTRESS FORD
Why, alas, what’s the matter?
MISTRESS PAGE
Your husband’s coming hither, woman, with all the officers in Windsor, to
search for a gentleman that he says is here now in the house, by your
consent, to take an ill advantage of his absence. You are undone. [100]
MISTRESS FORD
’Tis not so, I hope.
MISTRESS PAGE
Pray heaven it be not so, that you have such a man here − but ’tis most
certain your husband’s coming, with half Windsor at his heels, to search for
