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lubberly boy. If it had not been i’ th’ church, I would have swinged him, or he
should have swinged me. If I did not think it had been Anne Page, would I
might never stir − and ’tis a postmaster’s boy!

PAGE
Upon my life, then, you took the wrong. [180]

SLENDER
What need you tell me that? I think so, when I took a boy for a girl. If I had

been married to him, for all he was in woman’s apparel, I would not have had
him.

PAGE
Why, this is your own folly. Did not I tell you how you should know my
daughter by her garments? [185]

SLENDER
I went to her in white, and cried ‘mum’, and shecried ‘budget’, as Anne and I

had appointed; and yet it was not Anne, but a postmaster’s boy.

MISTRESS PAGE
Good George, be not angry: I knew of your purpose, turned my daughter into
green, and [190] indeed she is now with the Doctor at the deanery, and there
married.

Enter Caius.

CAIUS

Vere is Mistress Page? By gar, I am cozened; I ha’ married un garçon, a boy;
un paysan, by gar; a boy; it is not Anne Page; by gar, I am cozened. [195]

MISTRESS PAGE
Why, did you take her in green?

CAIUS
Ay, by gar, and ’tis a boy; by gar, I’ll raise all Windsor.
[Exit.]