Madame Ford (Susan Kelechi Watson) and Madam Page (Pascale Armand) realize that Falstaff has sent them the same love letter and decide to enact their revenge.
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TRANSCRIPT
Madame Page! Me, I was just going to come to your house.
Hmmm, trust me, I was coming to you. You don'''t look well, o.
Nay, I'll never believe that. And neither should you.
Hey, Hey!
O Sista Page, give me some counsel!
What's going on?
Here, read, read: perceive.
I shall think the worst of fat men as long as I have an eye to make difference of men's liking.
I wonder what tempest threw this whale with so many tons of oil in his belly ashore?
How shall I be revenged on him? I think the best way is to entertain him with hope till the wicked fire of lust melts him into his own grease.
Did you ever hear the like?
Hmph! Word for word! It'''s only that the name of Page and Ford differs! Here's the twin of thy letter.
No!
I bet he has a thousand of these written with blank spaces for different names!
He will print them, out of doubt; for he cares not what he puts into the press, when he would put us two.
Why, this is the very same--the very hand, the very words. Who does he think he is fooling?
It makes me almost ready to wrangle with mine own honesty.
I'll entertain myself like one that I am not acquainted withal.
For, sure, unless he knows some strain in me that I know not myself, he would never have tried to board my boat of love in this fury.
'Boarding' you call it? Chai! I'll be sure to keep him ABOVE deck.
So will I. If he come under my hatches! Aye! I would sink!
Because he'''s so big!
[They laugh, then sigh] Let's be revenged on him. Let's appoint him a meeting.
Fine-Fine. If only my husband saw this letter! It would give eternal food to his jealousy.
Why, look where he comes; and my good man too - he's as far from jealousy as I am from giving him cause, and that, I hope, is an unmeasurable distance.
You are the happier woman.
Let's consult together against this greasy scoundrel. Comecome.
Yes! Let'''s get to the revenge part, o!
