Enter Anne Page, with wine; Mistress Ford and Mistress Page, following.

170 Page. Nay, daughter, carry the wine in; we’ll drink within.

[Exit Anne Page.]

Slen. O heaven! this is Mistress Anne Page.

Page. How now, Mistress Ford!

Fal. Mistress Ford, by my troth, you are very well I. 1.
175 met: by your leave, good mistress. [Kisses her.]

Page. Wife, bid these gentlemen welcome. Come, we have a hot venison pasty to dinner: come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.

[Exeunt all except Shal., Slen., and Evans.]

Slen. I had rather than forty shillings I had my Book 180 of Songs and Sonnets here.

Enter Simple.