Ford. ’Twas a good sensible fellow:—well.

Page. How now, Meg!

[Mrs Page and Mrs Ford come forward.]

Mrs Page. Whither go you, [George]? Hark you.

135 Mrs Ford. How now, sweet Frank! why art thou melancholy?

Ford. I melancholy! I am not melancholy. Get you home, go.

Mrs Ford. Faith, thou hast some crotchets in thy 140 [head. Now,] will you go, Mistress Page?

Mrs Page. Have with you. You’ll come to dinner, [George]? [Aside to Mrs Ford] Look who comes yonder: she shall be our messenger to this paltry knight.

Mrs Ford. [Aside to Mrs Page] Trust me, I thought on 145 her: she’ll fit it.

Enter Mistress Quickly.