The Merry Wives of Windsor

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ACT V SCENE III	A street leading to the Park.
[ Enter MISTRESS PAGE, MISTRESS FORD, and DOCTOR CAIUS ]
MISTRESS PAGE	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.
DOCTOR CAIUS	I know vat I have to do. Adieu.	5
MISTRESS PAGE	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
	chiding than a great deal of heart-break.	10
MISTRESS FORD	Where is Nan now and her troop of fairies, and the
	Welsh devil Hugh?
MISTRESS PAGE	They are all couched in a pit hard by Herne's oak,
	with obscured lights; which, at the very instant of
	Falstaff's and our meeting, they will at once	15
	display to the night.
MISTRESS FORD	That cannot choose but amaze him.
MISTRESS PAGE	If he be not amazed, he will be mocked; if he be
	amazed, he will every way be mocked.
MISTRESS FORD	We'll betray him finely.	20
MISTRESS PAGE	Against such lewdsters and their lechery
	Those that betray them do no treachery.
MISTRESS FORD	The hour draws on. To the oak, to the oak!
[Exeunt]