Chapter: SCENE 2.

Windsor Park.

[Enter PAGE, SHALLOW, and SLENDER.]

PAGE.
Come, come; we'll couch i' the castle-ditch till we see the light
of our fairies. Remember, son Slender, my daughter.

SLENDER.
Ay, forsooth; I have spoke with her, and we have a nay-word how
to know one another. I come to her in white and cry 'mum'; she
cries 'budget,' and by that we know one another.

SHALLOW.
That's good too; but what needs either your 'mum' or her 'budget'?
The white will decipher her well enough. It hath struck ten o'clock.

PAGE.
The night is dark; light and spirits will become it well. Heaven
prosper our sport! No man means evil but the devil, and we shall
know him by his horns. Let's away; follow me.

[Exeunt.]

 Later that night, Page, Shallow, and Slender walk near Windsor Park. Slender says he and Anne have worked out code words to help them recognize one another. Shallow reminds him Anne's going to be wearing all white, so there's no need for code words. Master Page says it's a dark night, which will help them with their plan, and the three continue into the woods, excited.

