Ford. 
I would you knew Ford, sir, that you might avoid him if you saw him.

Falstaff.  Hang him, mechanical salt-butter rogue!  I will stare him out of his wits; I will awe him with my cudgel; it shall hang like a meteor o’er the cuckold’s horns.  Master Brook, thou shalt know I will predominate over the peasant, and thou shalt lie with his wife.  Come to me soon at night.  Ford’s a knave, and I will aggravate his style; thou, Master Brook, shalt know him for knave and cuckold.  Come to me soon at night.

[Exit.]

Ford.  What a damned Epicurean rascal is this!  My heart is ready to crack with impatience.  Who says this is improvident jealousy?  My wife hath sent to him; the hour is fixed; the match is made.  Would any man have thought this?  See the hell of having a false woman!  My bed shall be abused, my coffers ransacked, my reputation gnawn at; and I shall not only receive this villanous wrong, but stand under the adoption of abominable terms, and by him that does me this wrong.  Terms! names!  Amaimon sounds well; Lucifer, well; Barbason, well; yet they are devils’ additions, the names of fiends.  But Cuckold!  Wittol!—­Cuckold! the devil himself hath not such a name.  Page is an ass, a secure ass; he will trust his wife; he will not be jealous; I will rather trust a Fleming with my butter, Parson Hugh the Welshman with my cheese, an Irishman with my aqua-vitae bottle, or a thief to walk my ambling gelding, than my wife with herself; then she plots, then she ruminates, then she devises; and what they think in their hearts they may effect, they will break their hearts but they will effect.  God be praised for my jealousy!  Eleven o’clock the hour.  I will prevent this, detect my wife, be revenged on Falstaff, and laugh at Page.  I will about it; better three hours too soon than a minute too late.  Fie, fie, fie! cuckold! cuckold! cuckold!

[Exit.]

Scene 3.  A field near Windsor.

[Enter caius and Rugby.]

Caius. 
Jack Rugby!

Rugby. 
Sir?

Caius. 
Vat is de clock, Jack?

Rugby. 
’Tis past the hour, sir, that Sir Hugh promised to meet.

Caius. 
By gar, he has save his soul, dat he is no come; he has pray his
Pible vell dat he is no come:  by gar, Jack Rugby, he is dead
already, if he be come.

Rugby. 
He is wise, sir; he knew your worship would kill him if he came.

Caius. 
By gar, de herring is no dead so as I vill kill him.  Take your
rapier, Jack; I vill tell you how I vill kill him.

Rugby. 
Alas, sir, I cannot fence!

Caius. 
Villany, take your rapier.

Rugby. 
Forbear; here’s company.

[Enter host, shallow, slender, and page.]

Host.
Bless thee, bully doctor!