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Mrs. Ford. Pray you do so, she’s a very tattling woman.

[Falstaff stands behind the arras.]

[Enter Mistress Page.]

What’s the matter? How now?

Mrs. Page. O Mistress Ford, what have you done? You’re sham’d, y’ are overthrown, y’ are undone for ever!

Mrs. Ford. What’s the matter, good Mistress Page?

Mrs. Page. O well-a-day, Mistress Ford, having an honest man to your husband, to give him such cause of suspicion!

Mrs. Ford. What cause of suspicion?

Mrs. Page. What cause of suspicion? Out upon you! How am I mistook in you!

Mrs. Ford. Why, alas, what’s the matter?

Mrs. Page. Your husband’s coming hither, woman, with all the officers in Windsor, to search for a gentleman that he says is here now in the house; by your consent to take an ill advantage of his absence. You are undone.

Mrs. Ford. ’Tis not so, I hope.

Mrs. Page. Pray heaven it be not so, that you have such a man here; but ’tis most certain your husband’s coming, with half Windsor at his heels, to search for such a one. I come before to tell you. If you know yourself clear, why, I am glad of it; but if you have a friend here, convey, convey him out. Be not amaz’d, call all your senses to you, defend your reputation, or bid farewell to your good life for ever.