Master Slender and Anne Page, by Sir Augustus W. Callcott, R.A., in the Sheepshanks Collection, South Kensington Museum, 1864. Engraving of a painting. The subject is an illustration of one of the most amusing scenes in "The Merry Wives of Windsor." Poor Master Slender! Who does not remember when he comes blubbering on the stage at the end of the play, after the scene at Hernes oak "Whoo-ho! ho! Father Page! I came yonder to marry Mistress Anne Page, and shes a great lubberly boy...If I did not think it had been Anne Page would I might never stir, and tis a postmasters boy! If I had been married to him, for all he was in womans apparel, I would not have had him." That "Slender," says Mrs. Page, with perfect justice, "though well landed, is but an idiot."...Anne Page herself says plainly, "Good mother, do not marry me to yond fool." The scene immediately illustrated is the first in the play, where Slenders "cousin," Justice Shallow, with Parson Evans and Mr. Page, arrange a marriage between Slender and Pages daughter; and the Justice and Parson having entered Pages hospitable house, Slender lags bashfully behind. From "Illustrated London News", 1864.