SCENE III. A room in FORD'S house

Enter MISTRESS FORD and MISTRESS PAGE

MISTRESS FORD
What, John! What, Robert!

MISTRESS PAGE
Quickly, quickly! is the buck-basket--

MISTRESS FORD
I warrant. What, Robin, I say!

Enter Servants with a basket


MISTRESS PAGE
Come, come, come.

MISTRESS FORD
Here, set it down.

MISTRESS PAGE
Give your men the charge; we must be brief.

MISTRESS FORD
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.