Scene II
Windsor Park
Enter Page, Shallow and Slender.
PAGE.
Come, come. We’ll couch i’ the castle ditch till we see the light of our
fairies. Remember, son Slender, my daughter—
SLENDER.
Ay, forsooth. I have spoke with her, and we have 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.
SHALLOW.
That’s good too. But what needs either your “mum” or her “budget”? The white
will decipher her well enough. It hath struck ten o’clock.
PAGE.
The night is dark. Light and spirits will become it well. Heaven prosper our
sport! No man means evil but the devil, and we shall know him by his horns.
Let’s away; follow me.
[Exeunt.]
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