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42 at home,
    and I pray you all go with me.
    SHALLOW     I must excuse myself, Master Ford.
    SLENDER     And so must I, sir. We have appointed to dine with
    Mistress Anne, and I would not break with 46 her for more
    money than I’ll speak of.
    SHALLOW     We have lingered about a match between Anne
    Page and my cousin Slender, and this day we shall have our
    answer.
    SLENDER     I hope I have your good will, father Page.
    PAGE     You have, Master Slender, I stand wholly for you.
    But my wife, Master Doctor, is for you altogether.
    CAIUS     Ay, be-gar, and de maid is love-a me. My nursh-a
    Quickly tell me so mush.
    HOST     What say you to young Master Fenton?
    To Page
    He capers 57 , he dances, he has eyes of youth, he writes verses,
    he speaks holiday , he smells April and May. He will carry’t 58 ,
    he will carry’t, ’tis in his buttons 59 , he will carry’t.
    PAGE     Not by my consent, I promise you. The gentleman is
    of no having : he kept company with the wild prince and 61
    Poins. He is of too high a region 62 , he knows too much. No, he
    shall not knit a knot 63 in his fortunes with the finger of my
    substance . If he take her, let him take her simply 64 : the wealth I
    have waits on my consent, and my consent goes not that way.
    FORD     I beseech you heartily, some of you go home with
    me to dinner. Besides your cheer, you shall have sport: I will
    show you a monster 68 . Master Doctor, you shall go, so shall
    you, Master Page, and you, Sir Hugh.
    SHALLOW     Well, fare you well.— We shall have
    Aside to Slender
    the freer wooing at Master Page’s.
    [
Exeunt Shallow and Slender
]
    CAIUS     Go home, John Rugby, I come anon 72 .
    [
Exit Rugby
]
    HOST     Farewell, my hearts 73 . I will to my honest knight
    Falstaff, and drink canary 74 with him.
    [
Exit
]
    FORD     I think I shall drink in pipe wine 75 first with
    Aside
    him. I’ll make him dance .— Will you go, gentles 76 ?
    Aloud
    ALL      Have with 77 you to see this monster.
    Exeunt
Act 3 Scene 3
    running scene 10
    Enter Mistress Ford and Mistress Page
    MISTRESS FORD     What, John? What, Robert?
    MISTRESS PAGE     Quickly, quickly! Is the buck-basket 2 —
    MISTRESS FORD     I warrant. What, Robin, I say!
    [
Enter John and Robert with a laundry basket
]
    MISTRESS PAGE     Come, come, come.
    MISTRESS FORD     Here, set it down.
    MISTRESS PAGE     Give your men the charge 6 , we must be brief.
    MISTRESS FORD     Marry, as I told you before, John and Robert, be
    ready here hard by in the brew-house 8 , and when I suddenly
    call you, come forth, and without any pause or staggering
    take this basket on your shoulders: that done, trudge with it
    in all haste, and carry it among the whitsters in Datchet 11
    Mead, and there empty it in the muddy ditch close by the
    Thames side.
    MISTRESS PAGE     You will do it?
    To John and Robert
    MISTRESS FORD     I ha’ told them over and over, they lack no
    direction. Be gone, and come when you are called.
    [
Exeunt John and Robert
]
    MISTRESS PAGE     Here comes little Robin.
    [
Enter Robin
]
    MISTRESS FORD     How now, my eyas-musket 18 ? What news with
    you?
    ROBIN     My master, Sir John, is come in at your back-door,
    Mistress Ford, and requests your company.
    MISTRESS PAGE     You little Jack-a-Lent 22 , have you been true to us?
    ROBIN     Ay, I’ll be sworn. My master knows not of your
    being here and hath threatened to put me into everlasting
    liberty if I tell you of it: for he swears he’ll turn me away 25 .
    MISTRESS PAGE     Thou’rt a good boy. This secrecy of thine shall
    be a tailor to thee, and shall make thee a new doublet and
    hose. I’ll go hide me.
    MISTRESS FORD     Do so.— Go tell thy master I am alone.
    To Robin
    [
Exit Robin
]
    Mistress Page, remember you your cue.
    MISTRESS PAGE     I warrant thee: if I do not act it, hiss me.
    [
Exit
]
    MISTRESS FORD     Go