Primero_: and my winde
Were but long inough to say my prayers,
Ide repent, now from whence come you?

_Enter {M}istresse Quickly._

_Quic._ From the two parties forsooth. 70

_{F}al._ The diuell take the one partie,
And his dam the other,
And theyle be both bestowed.
_I_ haue endured more for their sakes,
Then man is able to endure. 75

_Quic._ O Lord sir, they are the sorowfulst creatures
That euer liued: specially mistresse _Ford_,
Her husband hath beaten her that she is all
Blacke and blew poore soule.

_Fal._ What tellest me of blacke and blew, 80
I haue bene beaten all the colours in the Rainbow,
And in my escape like to a bene apprehended
For a witch of _Brainford_, and set in the stockes.

_Quic._ Well sir, she is a sorrowfull woman,
And I hope when you heare my errant, 85
Youle be perswaded to the contrarie.

_Fal._ Come goe with me into my chamber, Ile heare thee.

_Exit omnes._

NOTES: SCENE XV

81: _bene_] om.

_Enter Host and Fenton._ [SC. XVI.]

_Host._ Speake not to me sir, my mind is heauie,
I haue had a great losse.

_{F}en._ Yet heare me, and as I am a gentleman,
Ile giue you a hundred pound toward your losse.

_Host._ Well sir Ile heare you, and at least keep your counsell. 5

_{F}en._ Then thus my host. Tis not vnknown to you,
The feruent loue _I_ beare to young _Anne Page_,
And mutally her loue againe to mee:
But her father still against her choise,
Doth seeke to marrie her to foolish _Slender_, 10
And in a robe of white this night disguised,
Wherein fat _Falstaffe_ had a mightie scare,
Must _Slender_ take her and carrie her to _Catlen_,
And there vnknowne to any, marrie her.
Now her mother still against that match, 15
And firme for Doctor _Cayus_, in a robe of red
By her deuice, the Doctor must steale her thence,
And she hath giuen consent to goe with him.

_Host._ Now which meanes she to deceiue, father or mother?

_Fen._ Both my good Host, to go along with me. 20
Now here it rests, that you would procure a priest,
And tarry readie at the appointment place,
To giue our harts vnited matrimonie.

_Host._ But how will you come to steale her from among them?

_{F}en._ That hath sweet _Nan_ and I agreed vpon,