{"id":"01KG8B0A9TG7QQ4F5SSDY8NGGD","cid":"bafkreihndbetlqdd5gzw2vrhoynawh6owyz2pc347lgvkakocscyudnjiu","type":"file","properties":{"cid":"bafkreiayobbakdiddytkdex2eb5llpyh6kydhp4cxqtkevcsfnrwgzjlzi","content_type":"image/jpeg","filename":"03_merry_wives_of_windsor_1905_page_0186.jpg","height":1778,"key":"pdf-page-1769806505265-alrobauz9eh","label":"03_merry_wives_of_windsor_1905_page_0186.jpg","page_number":186,"pdf_type":"born_digital","size":296381,"text":"i8o Notes [Act III\nWhat should we talk of dainties then,\nOf better meat than 's fit for men ?\nThese are but vain ; that 's only good\nWhich God hath bless'd and sent for food.\nBut could youth last and love still breed,\nHad joys no date and age no need,\nThen these delights my mind might move\nTo live with thee and be thy love.\n23. Whenas I sat in Pabylon. This line is from the old version\nof the 137th Psalm: —\n\" When we did sit in Babylon,\nThe rivers round about,\nThen, in remembrance of Sion,\nThe tears for grief burst out.\"\nFor whenas = when, see C. of E. iv. 4. 140, Sonn. 49. 3, etc.\n24. Vagram. Cf. Much Ado, iii. 3. 26: \"all vagrom men.\"\nJohnson changes the word to \" vagrant.\"\n44. Doublet and hose. Equivalent to the modern \" coat and\nbreeches.\" Cf. A. Y. L. ii. 4. 6, iii. 2. 206, 232, iv. i. 206, etc.\nHere in your doublet and hose means only thus dressed, or without\na cloak.\n56. So wide of his own respect. \" So indifferent to his own repu-\ntation.\"\n95. Gallia. Here = Wales (Fr. Galles, ox pays des Galles).\n99. Machiavel? For the allusion to the great Italian, cf.\nI Hen. VI. V. 4. 74 and 3 Hen. VI. iii. 2. 193.\n103. Give me thy hand, terrestrial ; so. These words are from\nthe quarto ; first inserted in the text by Theobald.\n114. Sot. Fool (Fr. sot) ; as elsewhere in S. Cf. Temp. iii. 2.\nloi, C. of E. ii. 2. 196, T. N, i. 5. 129, v. i. 202, etc.\n115. Vlouting-stog. Flouting-stock, laughing-stock. Cf, iv. 5.\n82 below.\n118. Scall. Evans's word for ^