a region; he knows too much. No, he shall not knit a knot in his fortunes with the finger of my substance: if he take her, let him take her simply; the wealth I have waits on my consent, and my consent goes not that way. I beseech you heartily, some of you go home with me to dinner: besides your cheer, you shall have sport; I will show you a monster. Master doctor, you shall go; so shall you, Master Page; and you, Sir Hugh. Well, fare you well: we shall have the freer wooing at Master Page's. Go home, John Rugby; I come anon. Farewell, my hearts: I will to my honest knight Falstaff, and drink canary with him. I think I shall drink in pipe wine first with him; I'll make him dance. Will you go, gentles? Have with you to see this monster. What, John! What, Robert! Quickly, quickly! is the buck-basket-- I warrant. What, Robin, I say! Come, come, come. Here, set it down. Give your men the charge; we must be brief. Marry, as I told you before, John and Robert, be ready here hard by in the brew-house: and when I suddenly call you, come forth, and without any pause or staggering take this basket on your shoulders: that done, trudge with it in all haste, and carry it among the whitsters in Datchet-mead, and there empty it in the muddy ditch close by the Thames side. You will do it? I ha' told them over and over; they lack no direction. Be gone, and come when you are called. Here comes little Robin. How now, my eyas-musket! what news with you? My master, Sir John, is come in at your back-door, Mistress Ford, and requests your company. You little Jack-a-Lent, have you been true to us? Ay, I'll be sworn. My master knows not of your being here and hath threatened to put me into everlasting liberty if I tell you of it; for he swears he'll turn me away. Thou'rt a good boy: this secrecy of thine shall be a tailor to thee and shall make thee a new doublet and hose. I'll go hide me. Do so. Go tell thy master I am alone. Mistress Page, remember you your cue. I warrant thee; if I do not act it, hiss me. Go to, then: we'll use this unwholesome humidity, this gross watery pumpion; we'll teach him to know turtles from jays. Have I caught thee, my heavenly