he cause,
How now whither goe you? Ha whither go you?
Set downe the basket you ssaue, 100
You panderly rogue, set it downe.

_Mis. {F}or._ What is the reason that you vse me thus?

_For._ Come hither set downe the basket,
Misteris _{F}ord_ the modest woman,
Misteris _{F}ord_ the vertuous woman, 105
She that hath the iealous foole to her husband,
I mistrust you without cause do I not?

_Mis. For._ I Gods my record do you. And if
you mistrust me in any ill sort.

_Ford._ Well sed brazen face, hold it out, 110
You youth in a basket, come out here,
Pull out the cloathes, search.

_Hu._ Ieshu plesse me, will you pull vp your wiues cloathes.

_Pa._ Fie M. _{F}ord_, you are not to go abroad if you be
in these fits.

_Sir Hugh._ By so kad vdge me, tis verie necessarie 115
He were put in pethlem.

_For._ M. _{P}age_, as _I_ am an honest man M. _{P}age_,
There was one conueyd out of my house here yesterday out of this
basket, why may he not be here now?

_Mi. For._ Come mistris _{P}age_, bring the old woman downe. 120

_For._ Old woman, what old woman?

_Mi. {F}or._ Why my maidens Ant, _Gillian_ of _Brainford_.
A witch, haue I not forewarned her my house,
Alas we are simple we, we know not what
_Is_ brought to passe vnder the colour of fortune-Telling. Come 125
downe you witch, come downe.

_Enter Falstaffe disguised like an old woman, and misteris Page
with him, Ford beates him, and hee runnes away._

Away you witch get you gone.

_{Sir H}u._ By Ieshu I verily thinke she is a witch indeed,
I espied vnder her mufler a great beard.

_Ford._ Pray come helpe me to search, pray now. 130

_Pa._ Come weele go for his minds sake.

_Exit omnes._

_Mi. For._ By my troth he beat him most extreamly.

_Mi. Pa._ I am glad of it, what shall we proceed any further?

_Mi. For._ No faith, now if you will let vs tell our husbands of it.
For mine I am sure hath almost fretted himselfe to death. 135

_Mi. Pa._ Content, come weele go tell them all,
And as they agree, so will we proceed.

_Exit both._

NOTES: SCENE XII

[SC. XII.] _Page_] _Anne Page_.
16: [Quic:] from the Catchword.
69: _home_] om.
98: Priest] Hugh.
115: _By so_] _So_.
120: _Come_] om.
123: _A witch._] For. _A witch._

_Enter Host and Bardolfe._