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  • Title: The Merry Wives of Windsor (Folio 1, 1623)

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    Author: William Shakespeare
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    The Merry Wives of Windsor (Folio 1, 1623)

    Scena Tertia.
    Enter Mist. Page, Mist. Ford, Caius.
    Mist. Page. Mr Doctor, my daughter is in green, when
    2450you see your time, take her by the hand, away with her
    to the Deanerie, and dispatch it quickly: go before into
    the Parke: we two must go together.
    Cai. I know vat I haue to do, adieu.
    Mist. Page. Fare you well (Sir:) my husband will not
    2455reioyce so much at the abuse of Falstaffe, as he will chafe
    at the Doctors marrying my daughter: But 'tis no mat-
    ter; better a little chiding, then a great deale of heart-
    breake.
    Mist. Ford. Where is Nan now? and her troop of Fai-
    2460ries? and the Welch-deuill Herne?
    Mist. Page. They are all couch'd in a pit hard by Hernes
    Oake, with obscur'd Lights; which at the very instant
    of Falstaffes and our meeting, they will at once display to
    the night.
    2465Mist. Ford. That cannot choose but amaze him.
    Mist. Page. If he be not amaz'd he will be mock'd: If
    he be amaz'd, he will euery way be mock'd.
    Mist. Ford. Wee'll betray him finely.
    Mist. Page. Against such Lewdsters, and their lechery,
    2470Those that betray them, do no treachery.
    Mist. Ford. The houre drawes-on: to the Oake, to the
    Oake. Exeunt.
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