The Merry Wives Of Windsor

1 Enter Falstaff and Mistress Quickly.
2 FALSTAFF.
3 Prithee, no more prattling. Go. I’ll hold. This is the third time; I
4 hope good luck lies in odd numbers. Away, go! They say there is
5 divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death. Away!
6 MISTRESS QUICKLY.
7 I’ll provide you a chain, and I’ll do what I can to get you a pair of
8 horns.
9 FALSTAFF.
10 Away, I say; time wears. Hold up your head, and mince.
11 [_Exit Mistress Quickly._]
12 Enter Ford.
13 How now, Master Brook! Master Brook, the matter will be known tonight
14 or never. Be you in the park about midnight, at Herne’s oak, and you
15 shall see wonders.
16 FORD.
17 Went you not to her yesterday, sir, as you told me you had appointed?
18 FALSTAFF.
19 I went to her, Master Brook, as you see, like a poor old man, but I
20 came from her, Master Brook, like a poor old woman. That same knave
21 Ford, her husband, hath the finest mad devil of jealousy in him, Master
22 Brook, that ever governed frenzy. I will tell you he beat me
23 grievously, in the shape of a woman; for in the shape of man, Master
24 Brook, I fear not Goliath with a weaver’s beam, because I know also
25 life is a shuttle. I am in haste. Go along with me; I’ll tell you all,
26 Master Brook. Since I plucked geese, played truant, and whipped top, I
27 knew not what ’twas to be beaten till lately. Follow me, I’ll tell you
28 strange things of this knave Ford, on whom tonight I will be revenged,
29 and I will deliver his wife into your hand. Follow. Strange things in
30 hand, Master Brook! Follow.
31 [_Exeunt._]