1899.11139Mis. For. Do you heare? when your M. comes

1899.21140take vp this basket as you did before, and if your M.

1899.31141bid you set it downe, obey hiM.

1899.41142Ser. I will forsooth.

1899.61144Mis. For. Syr Iohn welcome.

19051145Fal. What are you sure of your husband now?

19071146Mis. For. He is gone a birding sir Iohn, and I hope

1907.11147will not come home yet.

F Enter

1907.31149Gods body here is misteris Page,

19091150Step behind the arras good sir Iohn.

19171152Mis. Pa. Misteris Ford, why woman your husband

1153is in his old vaine againe, hees comming to search

19241154for your sweet heart, but I am glad he is not here.

19351155Mis. For. O God misteris Page the knight is here,

1935.11156What shall I do?

19361157Mis. Pa. Why then you'r vndone woman, vnles

19371158you make some meanes to shift him away.

19391159Mis. For. Alas I know no meanes, vnlesse

19401160we put him in the basket againe.

19411161Fal. No Ile come no more in the basket,

19471162Ile creep vp into the chimney.

19481163Mis. For. There they vse to discharge their Fow-(ling peeces.

19561164Fal. Why then Ile goe out of doores.

1956.11165Mi.Pa. Then your vndone, you^r but a dead man.

19631166Fal. For Gods sake deuise any extremitie,

19641167Rather then a mischiefe.

1964.11168Mis. Pa. Alas I know not what meanes to make,

19601169If there were any womans apparell would fit him,

19621170He might put on a gowne and a mufler,

1171And so escape.

1962.11172Mi. For. Thats wel remembred, my maids Aunt

19651173Gillian of Brainford, hath a gowne aboue.

19671174Mis. Pa. And she is altogether as fat as he.

1175Mis. For. I that will serue him of my word.

19721176Mis. Pa. Come goe with me sir Iohn, Ile helpe to

1177 dresse you.

1972.11178Fal. Come for God sake, any thing.

1972.51182For. Come along I pray, you shal know the cause,

1972.61183How now whither goe you? Ha whither go you?

20041184Set downe the basket you ssaue,

20061185You panderly rogue set it downe.

2006.11186Mis. For. What is the reason that you vse me (thus:

2006.21187For. Come hither set downe the basket,

20161188Misteris Ford the modest woman,

1189Misteris Ford the vertuous woman,

20171190She that hath the iealous foole to her husband,

20181191I mistrust you without cause do I not?

20191192Mis. For. I Gods my record do you. And if

1193you mistrust me in any ill sort.

20211194Ford. Well sed brazen face, hold it out,

2021.11195You youth in a basket, come out here,

20281196Pull out the cloathes, search.

20261197Hu. Ieshu plesse me, will you pull vp your wiues(cloathes?

2026.11198Pa. Fie M. Ford you are not to go abroad if you

2026.21199be in these fits.

2026.31200Sir Hu. By so kad vdge me, tis verie necessarie

2026.41201He were put in pethleM.

20301202For. M. Page, as I am an honest man M. Page,

1203There was one conueyd out of my house here ye-'

20311204sterday out of this basket, why may he not be here

20321205now?

20501206Mi. For. Come mistris Page, bring the old womã(downe.

20531207For. Old woman, what old woman?

20541208Mi.For. Why my maidens Ant, Gilleã of Brainford.

20551209A witch, haue I not forewarned her my house,

20571210Alas we are simple we, we know not what

F2 Is

20581211Is brought to passe vnder the colour of fortune-

1212Telling. Come downe you witch, come downe.

20671216Away you witch get you gone.

20751217Sir Hu. By Ieshu I verily thinke she is a witch (indeed,

20761218I espied vnder her mufler a great beard.

2076.11219Ford. Pray come helpe me to search, pray now.

20811220Pa. Come weele go for his minds sake.

20831222Mi. For. By my troth he beat him most extreamly.

2083.11223Mi. Pa. I am glad of it, what shall we proceed any

20901224further?

20951225Mi. For. No faith, now if you will let vs tell our

2095.11226husbands of it. For mine I am sure hath almost fret-

2095.21227ted himselfe to death.

2095.31228Mi. Pa. Content, come weele goe tell them all,

2095.41229And as they agree, so will we proceed. Exit both.