{"id":"01KG8B0AN05BMPRXZGM80TP6CY","cid":"bafkreiejj6xonn2qsd55zbybzdzruvnwlosfmoj2dhve23vxjpkghu77r4","type":"file","properties":{"cid":"bafkreiagq6rcqkrgbyfxt4hslwc6mc2tqqaok75pcec5vrwouj5n6owzda","content_type":"image/jpeg","filename":"03_merry_wives_of_windsor_1905_page_0187.jpg","height":1778,"key":"pdf-page-1769806505265-c66r5p5l505","label":"03_merry_wives_of_windsor_1905_page_0187.jpg","page_number":187,"pdf_type":"born_digital","size":361932,"text":"Scene II] Notes l8l\nA. and C. v. 2. 21 5 : \"scald rhymers,\" etc. CV»^\"«^ = cheating.\nCf. iii. 3. 49, 72 below.\nScene II. — 17. The dickens. The one instance of the expres-\nsion in S. It is rare in writers of the time. Heywood, in his\nEdw. IV. 1600, has \" What, the dickens ! \"\n32. Twelve score. That is, yards ; as in i Hen. IV. ii. 4. 598\nand 2 Hen. IV. iii. 2. 52. As this is a short distance for a cannon,\nit has been suggested that rods may be understood ; but Ford\nmeans to make it a very easy shot, which for the guns of that day\nmight not be more than 720 feet. At any rate, 5J times that dis-\ntance, or nearly a mile, would be too much for a point-blank shot.\n40. So-seeming. Referring to modesty; not = \"so specious,\" as\nSteevens makes it.\n41. Actceon. Here = cuckold ; alluding to the proverbial /^crwj.\nCf. ii. I. 117 and iii. 2. 41.\n42. Cry aim. Encourage ; \" an expression borrowed from\narchery = to encourage the archers by crying out aitn when they\nwere about to shoot, and then in a general sense to applaud, to\nencourage with cheers\" (Schmidt). Qi. K. John, ii. i. 196; and\nsee also on ii. 3. 89 above.\n55. Lingered. Been waiting.\n67. Speaks holiday. That is, his best, his choicest language.\nWarburton thought it to be = \" in a high-flown, fustian style ; \"\nbut the host means simply holiday style as distinguished from\neveryday style, or that of common people. Cf. i Hen. IV. i. 3.\n46: \" With many holiday and lady terms; \" also \"high-day wit\"\nin M. of V. ii. 9. 98, and \" festival terms \" in Much Ado, v. 2. 41.\n68. *Tis in his buttons. A free-and-easy expression = 't is in\nhim to do it, he can do it if he will. The late President Garfield\nsaid that he never met a ragged boy without feeling that he owed\nhim a salute for the possibilities \"buttoned up under his coat.\"\nSome of the editors of the last century see an allusion to \" a custom\namong the country fellows, of trying whether they should succeed","text_extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:55:05.265Z","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":"2026-01-30T20:55:06.656Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:55:09.213Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFFH6ETXGRVD10WPNP3007D6"}}