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.
Sir Hugh Evans enters disguised as one of the fairies, leading the other children and participants in their costumes. He gives them their instructions and tells them to remember their parts carefully. Evans urges them to be bold and to follow him into the ditch or pit, where they are to wait for the right moment. He explains that when he gives the watchwords, they must do exactly as he tells them. After repeating his directions in his comic, accented way, he leads the group off together to take their places for the night’s prank.
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