back to 5.2 skip to 5.4 The Merry Wives of Windsor Act 5, Scene 3 Enter MISTRESS PAGE, MISTRESS FORD, and DOCTOR CAIUS Mistress PageMaster 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 CaiusI know vat I have to do. Adieu. Mistress PageFare 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. Mistress FordWhere is Nan now and her troop of fairies, and the Welsh devil Hugh? Mistress PageThey 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 display to the night. Mistress FordThat cannot choose but amaze him. Mistress PageIf he be not amazed, he will be mocked; if he be amazed, he will every way be mocked. Mistress FordWe’ll betray him finely. Mistress PageAgainst such lewdsters and their lechery Those that betray them do no treachery. Mistress FordThe hour draws on. To the oak, to the oak! Exeunt The Merry Wives of Windsor Act 5, Scene 3