Page 2546 - Shakespeare - Vol. 2

And ask him why, that hour of fairy revel,
In their so sacred paths he dares to tread
In shape profane.

MISTRESS FORD
And till he tell the truth,
Let the supposed fairies pinch him sound,

And burn him with their tapers.

MISTRESS PAGE
The truth being known, [60]
We’ll all present ourselves, dis-horn the spirit,
And mock him home to Windsor.

FORD

The children must
Be practis’d well to this, or they’ll ne’er do ’t.

EVANS
I will teach the children their behaviours; and I will be like a jack-an-apes
also, to burn the knight with my [65] taber.

FORD
That will be excellent. I’ll go buy them vizards.

MISTRESS PAGE
My Nan shall be the queen of all the fairies,

Finely attired in a robe of white.

PAGE
That silk will I go buy. − [Aside.] And in that time [70]
Shall Master Slender steal my Nan away,
And marry her at Eton. − Go, send to Falstaff straight.

FORD
Nay, I’ll to him again in name of Brook;

He’ll tell me all his purpose. Sure, he’ll come.