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Enter MISTRESS PAGE, MISTRESS FORD, and DOCTOR CAIUS
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| MISTRESS PAGE |
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Master doctor, my daughter is in green: when you
see your time, take her by the band, away with her
to the deanery, and dispatch it quickly. Go before
into the Park: we two must go together.
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| DOCTOR CAIUS |
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5 I know vat I have to do. Adieu.
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| MISTRESS PAGE |
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Fare you well, sir.
Exit DOCTOR CAIUS
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
10 chiding than a great deal of heart-break.
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| MISTRESS FORD |
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Where is Nan now and her troop of fairies, and the
Welsh devil Hugh?
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| MISTRESS PAGE |
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They are all couched in a pit hard by Herne's oak,
with obscured lights; which, at the very instant of
15 Falstaff's and our meeting, they will at once
display to the night.
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| MISTRESS FORD |
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That cannot choose but amaze him.
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| MISTRESS PAGE |
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If he be not amazed, he will be mocked; if he be
amazed, he will every way be mocked.
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20 We'll betray him finely.
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| MISTRESS PAGE |
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Against such lewdsters and their lechery
Those that betray them do no treachery.
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| MISTRESS FORD |
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The hour draws on. To the oak, to the oak!
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Exeunt
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