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Ford. I beseech you heartily, some of you go home with me to dinner. Besides your cheer, you shall have sport; I will show you a monster. Master Doctor, you shall go, so shall you, Master Page, and you, Sir Hugh.

Shal. Well, fare you well. We shall have the freer wooing at Master Page’s.

[Exeunt Shallow and Slender.]

Caius. Go home, John Rugby, I come anon.

[Exit Rugby.]

Host. Farewell, my hearts. I will to my honest knight Falstaff, and drink canary with him.

[Exit.]

Ford [Aside.] I think I shall drink in pipe-wine first with him; I’ll make him dance.—Will you go, gentles?

All. Have with you to see this monster.

Exeunt.

¶

Enter Mistress Ford, 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 great buck-basket].

Mrs. Page. Come, come, come.

Mrs. Ford. Here, set it down.

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. 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.