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Act V, Scene 1
1A room in the Garter Inn.
2Enter Falstaff and Mistress Quickly.
3FalstaffPrithee, no more prattling; go: I’ll hold. This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers. Away! go. They say there is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death. Away!
4Mistress QuicklyI’ll provide you a chain, and I’ll do what I can to get you a pair of horns.
5FalstaffAway, I say; time wears; hold up your head, and mince.
6Exit Mistress Quickly.
7Enter Ford.
8How now, Master Brook! Master Brook, the matter will be known tonight, or never. Be you in the Park about midnight, at Herne’s oak, and you shall see wonders.
9FordWent you not to her yesterday, sir, as you told me you had appointed?
10FalstaffI went to her, Master Brook, as you see, like a poor old man; but I came from her, Master Brook, like a poor old woman. That same knave Ford, her husband, hath the finest mad devil of jealousy in him, Master Brook, that ever governed frenzy. I will tell you: he beat me grievously in the shape of a woman; for in the shape of man, Master Brook, I fear not Goliath with a weaver’s beam, because I know also life is a shuttle. I am in haste; go along with me; I’ll tell you all, Master Brook. Donning his coat. Since I plucked geese, played truant, and whipped top, I knew not what ’twas to be beaten till lately. At the door. Follow me: I’ll tell you strange things of this knave Ford, on whom tonight I will be revenged, and I will deliver his wife into your hand. Follow. Strange things in hand, Master Brook! Follow.
11Exeunt.