There is one Mistress Ford, sir-I pray, come a little nearer this ways.

Mistress Ford, your sorrow hath eaten up my sufferance.

'Brook' says he is in love with Mistress Ford but cannot woo her as she is too virtuous.

Falstaff cannot believe his luck, and tells 'Brook' he has already arranged to meet Mistress Ford while her husband is out.

O well-a-day, Mistress Ford, having an honest man to your husband, to give him such cause of suspicion!

Yes, I warrant; speciously one of them; Mistress Ford, good heart, is beaten black and blue, that you cannot see a white spot about her.

Mistress Ford, by my troth, you are very well met; by your leave, good mistress.

Mistress Ford then arrives with her own letter from Falstaff.

"Brook" affects to be in love with Mistress Ford, but that she has a reputation for fidelity.

Marry, sir, I come to your worship from Mistress Ford.