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into the Park; we two must go together.

CAIUS
I know vat I have to do. Adieu. [5]
[Exit.]

MISTRESS PAGE
Fare you well, sir. − 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 heartbreak.

MISTRESS FORD
Where is Nan now? And her troop of [10] fairies? And the Welsh devil Hugh?

MISTRESS PAGE
They are all couched in a pit hard by Herne’s oak, with obscured lights, which,
at the very instant of Falstaff’s and our meeting, they will at once display to
the night. [15]

MISTRESS FORD

That cannot choose but amaze him.

MISTRESS PAGE

If he be not amazed, he will be mocked; if he be amazed, he will every way
be mocked.

MISTRESS FORD
We’ll betray him finely.

MISTRESS PAGE
Against such lewdsters and their lechery [20]
Those that betray them do no treachery.

MISTRESS FORD
The hour draws on. To the oak, to the oak!

Exeunt.