ee this monster. [_Exeunt._

NOTES: III, 2

SCENE II.] SCENE IV. Pope.
11: _company_] _your company_ Collier MS.
19: Ford. _Sir John Falstaff!_] omitted in F3 F4 and Rowe.
20: _on's_] _on his_ Rowe.
25: SCENE V. Pope.
37: [Clock heard] Capell.
39: _search: there_] _search where_ Collier MS.
42: SCENE VI. Pope.
46-48: Printed as verse in Ff Q3 and Rowe.
47: _her_] _here_ F2.
59: _April_] _all April_ (Q1 Q2).
60: _buttons_] _betmes_ (Q1 Q2). _destiny_ Anon. conj.
63: _Poins_] _Poyntz_ F1 Q3 F2. _Poinz_ F3 F4.

SCENE III. _A room in FORD'S house._

_Enter MISTRESS FORD and MISTRESS PAGE._

_Mrs Ford._ What, John! What, Robert!

_Mrs Page._ Quickly, quickly!--is the buck-basket--

_Mrs Ford._ I warrant. What, Robin, I say!

_Enter _Servants_ with a basket._

_Mrs Page._ Come, come, come.

_Mrs Ford._ Here, set it down. 5

_Mrs Page._ Give your men the charge; we must be brief.

_Mrs Ford._ Marry, as I told you before, John and
Robert, be ready here hard by in the brew-house; and
when I suddenly call you, come forth, and, without any
pause or staggering, take this basket on your shoulders: 10
that done, trudge with it in all haste, and carry it among
the whitsters in Datchet-mead, and there empty it in
the muddy ditch close by the Thames side.

_Mrs Page._ You will do it?

_Mrs Ford._ I ha' told them over and over; they lack 15
no direction. Be gone, and come when you are called.

[_Exeunt Servants._

_Mrs Page._ Here comes little Robin.

_Enter ROBIN._

_Mrs Ford._ How now, my eyas-musket! what news
with you?

_Rob._ My master, Sir John, is come in at your back-door, 20
Mistress Ford, and requests your company.

_Mrs Page._ You little Jack-a-Lent, have you been true
to us?

_Rob._ Ay, I'll be sworn. My master knows not of your
being here, and hath threatened to put me into everlasting 25
liberty, if I tell you of it; for he swears he'll turn me away.

_Mrs 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.

_Mrs Ford._ Do so. Go tell thy master I am alone. 30
[_Exit Robin._] Mistress Page, remember you your cue.

_Mrs Page._ I warrant thee; if I do not act it, hiss me.
[_Exit._

_Mrs Ford._ Go to, then: we'll use this unwholesome
humidity, this gross