{"id":"01KG8AYDBHWM1RZQZ6RDRDE4YD","cid":"bafkreigvbhqzwjzgtyulb2ihbps5342hpo7t2jnwvd3zknfuvixle6sjhq","type":"file","properties":{"cid":"bafkreid6motyimuwfoyyukctll55gmvwfortd5sv7zfsj7lq5ba6aypxem","content_type":"image/jpeg","filename":"03_merry_wives_of_windsor_1905_page_0025.jpg","height":1778,"key":"pdf-page-1769806443567-qc73slyzccn","label":"03_merry_wives_of_windsor_1905_page_0025.jpg","page_number":25,"pdf_type":"born_digital","size":379745,"text":"Introduction\nyet those of stout, bare-legged, bare-armed English\nwenches plying their washing-trade. There 's a healthy\nmoral as well : * Wives may be merry and yet honest\ntoo.' The lewd court hanger-on, whose wit always\nmastered men, is outwitted and routed by Windsor\nwives \" (Furnivall).\nCharles Cowden-Clarke, in similar vein, remarks:\n\" The Merry Wives of Windsor is one of those delight-\nfully happy plays of Shakespeare, beaming with sun-\nshine and good-humour, that makes one feel the better,\nthe lighter, and the happier for having seen or read it.\nIt has a superadded charm, too, from the scene being\npurely English; and we all know how rare and how\nprecious English sunshine is, both literally and meta-\nphorically. The Merry Wives may be designated the\n' sunshine ' of domestic life, as the As You Like It is\nthe ' sunshine ' of romantic life. The out-door character\nthat pervades both plays gives to them their tone of\nbuoyancy and enjoyment, and true holiday feeHng. We\nhave the meeting of Shallow and Slender and Page in\nthe streets of Windsor, who saunter on, chatting of the\n' fallow greyhound,' and of his being * outrun on Cot-\nsail ' ; and, still strolling on, they propose the match\nbetween Slender and ' sweet Anne Page.' Then Anne\nbrings wine out of doors to them ; though her father,\nwith the genuine feeling of old English hospitality,\npresses them to come into his house, and enjoy it with\na 'hot venison pasty to dinner.' And she afterwards\ncomes out into the garden to bid Master Slender to","text_extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:54:03.567Z","text_extracted_by":"pdf-processor","text_has_content":true,"text_source":"born_digital","uploaded":true,"width":1084},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG89K4N3KNPAGDJAVRPVWBA4","predicate":"derived_from"},{"peer":"01KG89JREDR8WY5QQGYR5FZRDY","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG8AYDFVMX7J94K7YDH17WQ7","predicate":"prev"},{"peer":"01KG8AYDCSKFX8JQQTWCF62A29","predicate":"next"}],"ver":3,"created_at":"2026-01-30T20:54:03.889Z","ts":"2026-01-30T21:06:00.215Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFFH6ETXGRVD10WPNP3007D6"}}