SCENE IV. Windsor Park. Enter SIR HUGH EVANS, and Fairies. Evans. Trib, trib, fairies; come; and remember your parts: be pold, I pray you; follow me into the pit; and when I give the watch-'ords, do as I pid you. Come, come; trib, trib. [Exeunt. SCENE V. Another part of the park. Enter FALSTAFF disguised, with a buck's head on. Fal. The Windsor bell hath struck twelve; the minute draws on. Now, the hot-blooded gods assist me!-Remember, Jove, thou wast a bull for thy Europa; love set on thy horns.-O powerful love! that, in some respects, makes a beast a man; in some other, a man a beast.—You were also, Jupiter, a swan, for the love of Leda.-O, omnipotent love! how near the god drew to the complexion of a goose! A fault done first in the form of a beast ; Jove, a beastly fault! and then another fault in the semblance of a fowl; think on 't, Jove; a foul fault.-When gods have hot backs, what shall poor men do? For me, I am here a Windsor stag; and the fattest, I think, i' the forest. Send me a cool. rut-time, Jove, or who can blame me to piss my tallow? Who comes here? my doe? |
