{"id":"01KG8B0A6T2ZWWMS0P8WBFQPVG","cid":"bafkreifbevltvy2i4d7pphaialxy25knwkeei2t5ninomdnwys6okwovre","type":"file","properties":{"cid":"bafkreifpngcsifrcescfnuiwp73g3hzyeriqc7r3wubzu7r5utj5bkffdm","content_type":"image/jpeg","filename":"03_merry_wives_of_windsor_1905_page_0156.jpg","height":1778,"key":"pdf-page-1769806505250-v0a301rzbyl","label":"03_merry_wives_of_windsor_1905_page_0156.jpg","page_number":156,"pdf_type":"born_digital","size":371529,"text":"150 Notes [Act I\nadopted. Verplanck, however, remarks : \" though they suit Shal-\nlow very well, yet it seems a more natural touch of humour to make\nSlender, so negatively indifferent to all other matters, struck with\nadmiration at the legacy.\"\n63. Possibilities. Halliwell-PhilHpps takes this to be = \" pos-\nsessions.\" AMS. in Dulwich College (of about the year 1610)\nreads : \" if we geete the fathers good will first, then may we bolder\nspake to the datter, for my possebeletis is abel to manteyne her.\"\nIn the present passage, however, the word may refer to what she is\nlikely to receive from her father.\n88. Fallow. Pale yellow ; the only instance of this sense in S.\nHe uses the adjective ( = untilled) again in Hen. V. v. 2. 44.\n89. On Cotsall. That is, on the Cotswold downs in Gloucester-\nshire, celebrated for coursing, for which their fine turf fitted them,\nand also for other rural sports. The allusion is not in the first\nsketch of the play, and is one of the little points indicating that\nit was not revised until after the accession of James, in the begin-\nning of whose reign the Cotswold games were revived. Cf.\nRich. II. ii. 3. 9 and 2 Hen. IV. iii. 2. 23.\n92. Fault. Explained by Malone and Schmidt as = misfortune,\nbad luck ; as perhaps in iii. 3. 220 below. Schmidt compares Per.\niv. 2. 79.\n113. But not kissed your keeper''s daughter ? Some of the critics\nsuppose this to be a quotation from an old ballad. Sir Walter\nScott, in Kenihvorth, suggests that it was part of the charge made\nagainst S. by Sir Thomas Lucy.\n119. In counsel. Kept secret ; with possibly a play on ft?/^;W(?/ =\nsecrecy. Malone quotes Howel's Proverbial Sentences : \" Mum is\ncounsell, viz. silence.\"\n121. Worts? \"The ancient name of all the cabbage kind\"\n(Steevens). Cf. the modern colewort. Baret, in his Alvearie,\n1580, defines worts as \"all kind of hearbes that serve for the\npotte.\"124. Cony-catching. Thieving, cheating. Cf. i. 3. 32 below,","text_extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:55:05.250Z","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"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-30T20:55:06.202Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:55:10.023Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFFH6ETXGRVD10WPNP3007D6"}}