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With some diffused song. Upon their sight,

We two in great amazedness will fly;

Then let them all encircle him about,

And fairy-like to pinch the unclean knight;

And ask him why, that hour of fairy revel,

In their so sacred paths he dares to tread

In shape profane.

[Mrs.] Ford.

And till he tell the truth,

Let the supposed fairies pinch him sound,

And burn him with their tapers.

Mrs. Page.

The truth being known,

We’ll all present ourselves; dis-horn the spirit,

And mock him home to Windsor.

Ford.

The children must

Be practic’d well to this, or they’ll nev’r do’t.

Evans. I will teach the children their behaviors; and I will be like a jack-an-apes also, to burn the knight with my taber.

Ford.

That will be excellent. I’ll go buy them vizards.

Mrs. Page.

My Nan shall be the queen of all the fairies,

Finely attired in a robe of white.

Page.

That silk will I go buy.

[Aside.]

And in that time

Shall Master Slender steal my Nan away,

And marry her at Eton.—Go, send to Falstaff straight.