The Merry Wives of Windsor: Act 5, Scene 3

    comedy

    A street leading to the Park.

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    Mistress Page leads Caius to the Oak and tells him to find the girl in green.

    Enter MISTRESS PAGE, MISTRESS FORD, and DOCTOR CAIUS
    MISTRESS PAGE
    Master doctor, my daughter is in green: when you
    see your time, take her by the band, away with her
    to the deanery, and dispatch it quickly. Go before
    into the Park: we two must go together.
    DOCTOR CAIUS
    I know vat I have to do. Adieu.
    MISTRESS PAGE
    Fare you well, sir.
    Exit DOCTOR CAIUS
    My husband will not rejoice so much at the abuse of
    Falstaff as he will chafe at the doctor's marrying
    my daughter: but 'tis no matter; better a little
    chiding than a great deal of heart-break.
    MISTRESS FORD
    Where is Nan now and her troop of fairies, and the
    Welsh devil Hugh?
    MISTRESS PAGE
    They are all couched in a pit hard by Herne's oak,
    with obscured lights; which, at the very instant of
    Falstaff's and our meeting, they will at once
    display to the night.
    MISTRESS FORD
    That cannot choose but amaze him.
    MISTRESS PAGE
    If he be not amazed, he will be mocked; if he be
    amazed, he will every way be mocked.
    MISTRESS FORD
    We'll betray him finely.
    MISTRESS PAGE
    Against such lewdsters and their lechery
    Those that betray them do no treachery.
    MISTRESS FORD
    The hour draws on. To the oak, to the oak!
    Exeunt