Shakespeare - First Folio facsimile (1910)/The Merry Wives of Windsor/Act 5 Scene 2

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Scena Secunda.


Enter Page, Shallow, Slender.

Page.
Come, come: wee’ll couch i’th Castle-ditch, till we see the light of our Fairies. Remember son Slender, my.

Slen.
I forsooth, I haue spoke with her, & we haue a nay-word, how to know one another. I come to her in white, and cry Mum; she cries Budget, and by that we know one another.

Shal.
That’s good too: But what needes either your Mum, or her Budget? The white will decipher her well enough. It hath strooke ten a’clocke.

Page.
The night is darke, Light and Spirits will become it wel: Heauen prosper our sport. No man means euill but the deuill, and we shal know him by his hornes. Lets away: follow me. Exeunt.