Enter Page, Shallow, and Slender.
Page. Come, come; we’ll couch i’ the castle-ditch till we see the light of our fairies. Remember, son Slender, my [daughter].
Slen. Ay, forsooth; I have spoke with her, and we 5 have a nay-word how to know one another: I come to her in white, and cry, ‘mum;’ she cries ‘budget;’ and by that we know one another.
Shal. That’s good too: but what needs either your ‘mum’ or her ‘budget?’ the white will decipher her well 10 enough. It hath struck ten o’clock.
Page. The night is dark; light and spirits will become it well. Heaven prosper our sport! No man means evil but the devil, and we shall know him by his horns. Let’s away; follow me.
Exeunt.
[ V. 3 Scene III. A street leading to the Park.]
Enter Mistress Page, Mistress Ford, and Doctor Caius.
Mrs Page. Master doctor, my daughter is in green: when you see your time, take her by the hand, away with her to the deanery, and dispatch it quickly. Go before into the Park: we two must go together.
5 Caius. I know vat I have to do. Adieu.