[SC. XIII.]

_Bar._ Syr heere be three Gentlemen come from the Duke the
Stanger sir, would haue your horse.

_Host._ The Duke, what Duke? let me speake with the Gentlemen,
do they speake English?

_Bar._ He call them to you sir. 5

_Host._ No _Bardolfe_, let them alone, He sauce them:
They haue had my house a weeke at command,
I haue turned away my other guesse,
They shall haue my horses _Bardolfe_,
They must come off, He sawce them.

_Exit omnes._ 10

_Enter Ford, Page, their wives, Shallow and Slender, Syr Hu._
[SC. XIV.]

_Ford._ Well wife, heere take my hand, vpon my soule I loue thee
dearer then I do my life, and ioy I haue so true and constant wife, my
iealousie shall neuer more offend thee.

_Mi. For._ Sir _I_ am glad, and that which I haue done,
Was nothing else but mirth and modestie. 5

_Pa._ I misteris _{F}ord_, _Falstaffe_ hath all the griefe,
And in this knauerie my wife was the chiefe.

_Mi. Pa._ No knauery husband, it was honest mirth.

_Hu._ Indeed it was good pastimes & merriments.

_Mis. For._ But sweete heart shall wee leaue olde _{F}alstaffe_ so? 10

_Mis. Pa._ O by no meanes, send to him againe.

_Pa._ I do not thinke heele come being so much deceiued.

_For._ Let me alone, Ile to him once again like _Brooke_, and
know his mind whether heele come or not.

_Pa._ There must be some plot laide, or heele not come. 15

_Mis. Pa._ Let vs alone for that. Heare my deuice.
Oft haue you heard since _Horne_ the hunter dyed,
That women to affright their litle children,
Ses that he walkes in shape of a great stagge.
Now for that _{F}alstaffe_ hath bene so deceiued, 20
As that he dares not venture to the house,
Weele send him word to meet vs in the field,
Disguised like _Horne_, with huge horns on his head.
The houre shalbe iust betweene twelue and one,
And at that time we will meet him both: 25
Then would I haue you present there at hand,
With litle boyes disguised and dressed like Fayries,
For to affright fat _{F}alstaffe_ in the woods.
And then to make a period to the Iest,
Tell _Falstaffe_ all, I thinke this will do best. 30

_Pa._ Tis excellent, and my daughter _Anne_,
Shall like a litle Fayrie be disguised.

_Mis. Pa.