{"id":"01KG8B0ABJ0EZMDBXTCZF2XTD8","cid":"bafkreieatmyjr22r4zn6i4for33lndyptypxooz6u2k6zdbok2semhzroq","type":"file","properties":{"cid":"bafkreid25qa3axhazlaxizljvqsvetcc4oojleyrzda7z7f5bah3wg6z4m","content_type":"image/jpeg","filename":"03_merry_wives_of_windsor_1905_page_0160.jpg","height":1778,"key":"pdf-page-1769806505251-dnd9n2jaba","label":"03_merry_wives_of_windsor_1905_page_0160.jpg","page_number":160,"pdf_type":"born_digital","size":385494,"text":"154 Notes [Act I\n1 66. Marry trap. Johnson says : \" When a man was caught in\nhis own stratagem, I suppose the exclamation of insult was marry,\ntrap ! \" Nares remarks that it is \" apparently a kind of proverbial\nexclamation, as much as to say, * By Mary, you are caught ! ' . . .\nbut the phrase wants further illustration.\" No other instance of it\nhas been pointed out, and the meaning can be only guessed at.\nMarry was originally a mode of swearing by the Virgin Mary, but\nthis had doubtless come to be forgotten in the time of S.\nNut-hook vfzs \"a term of reproach for a catch-pole ^^ (Johnson).\nCf. 2 Hen. IV. v. 4. 8: \"Nuthook, nuthook, you lie! \" Steevens\nmakes if you run the nuthook' s hwnour on me = \" if you say I am\na thief ; \" that is, as a constable might.\n172. Scarlet and John. \"The names of two of Robin Hood's\nmen ; but the humour consists in the allusion to Bardolph's red\nface'' (Warburton). Cf. the ballad of Robin Hood's Delight:-^\n\" But I will tell you of Will Scarlet,\nLittle John and Robin Hood.\"\n177. Fap. A cant term for drunk. Some have attempted to\nderive it from the Latin vappa, and have assumed that Slender\nrecognized it as Latin ; but the origin of the word is uncertain.\nThat Slender should take Bardolph's fantastic dialect for Latin is a\nhumorous touch which the dullest of critics ought to appreciate.\n178. Conclusions passed the careers. This bit of boozy rhodo-\nmontade has been \" Greek \" to the commentators, as it was Latin\nto Slender, and they have worried much over the interpretation of\nit. Johnson says it \"means that the common bounds of good behav-\niour are overpassed,\" which is very like Bardolph ! To pass the\ncareer, according to Douce, was, like rtmning a career, a techni-\ncal term for \" galloping a horse violently backwards and forwards,\nstopping him suddenly at the end of the career'' Malone and\nSchmidt think that Bardolph means to say, \" and so in the end he\nreeled about like a horse passing a career.\" Clarke suggests that\nthe idea is, \"and their words ran high, at full gallop.\" Slender did","text_extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:55:05.251Z","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":"2026-01-30T20:55:06.354Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:55:12.241Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFFH6ETXGRVD10WPNP3007D6"}}