PAGE: A meeting—a-lack-a-day—may we stay? We are not members.
ANN: Oh, you are my guests—and most welcome.
FORD: Do we know the ladies?
ANN: Nearly all, I trow, there’s the President, Lady Macbeth.
PAGE: She was ever all dignity—and ambition.
ANN: And the Secretary is Portia, the attorney-at-law.
FORD: A-la-la, she’ll make you toe the mark.
ANN: Jessica, Shylock’s daughter, is Treasurer.
PAGE: No one dares owe dues to her, I’ll warrant.
ANN: But sit you down, and have a merry gossip together. Methinks the ladies do arrive.