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Ford. Marry, sir, we’ll bring you to Windsor, to one Master [Brook] that you have cozen’d of money, to whom you should have been a pander. Over and above that you have suffer’d, I think to repay that money will be a biting affliction.

Page. Yet be cheerful, knight. Thou shalt eat a posset to-night at my house, where I will desire thee to laugh at my wife, that now laughs at thee. Tell her Master Slender hath married her daughter.

Mrs. Page [Aside.] Doctors doubt that. If Anne Page be my daughter, she is, by this, Doctor Caius’ wife.

[Enter Slender.]

Slen. Whoa ho, ho! father Page!

Page. Son? how now? how now, son? have you dispatch’d?

Slen. Dispatch’d? I’ll make the best in Gloucestershire know on’t. Would I were hang’d la, else!

Page. Of what, son?

Slen. I came yonder at Eton to marry Mistress Anne Page, and she’s a great lubberly boy. If it had not been i’ th’ church, I would have swing’d him, or he should have swing’d me. If I did not think it had been Anne Page, would I might never stir!—and ’tis a postmaster’s boy.