What’s the matter? how now!
Mrs Page. O Mistress Ford, what have you done? You’re shamed, you’re overthrown, you’re undone for ever!
Mrs Ford. What’s the matter, good Mistress Page?
85 Mrs Page. O well-a-day, Mistress Ford! having an honest man to your husband, to give him such cause of suspicion!
Mrs Ford. What cause of suspicion?
Mrs Page. What cause of suspicion! Out upon you! 90 how am I mistook in you!
Mrs Ford. Why, alas, what’s the matter?
Mrs Page. Your husband’s coming hither, woman, with all the officers in Windsor, to search for a gentleman that he says is here now in the house, by your consent, to 95 take an ill advantage of his absence: you are undone.
Mrs Ford. [’Tis not so], I hope.
Mrs Page. Pray heaven it be not so, that you have such a man here! but ’tis most certain your husband’s coming, with half Windsor at his heels, to search for such a one. III. 3.
100 I come before to tell you. If you know yourself clear, why, I am glad of it; but if you have a friend here, convey, convey him out. Be not amazed; call all your senses to you; defend your reputation, or bid farewell to your good life for ever.