{"id":"01KG8B0B220YQ12SX2BJC3J1TM","cid":"bafkreibgi2ryi77rwlnogbbqcsmjttpakgvycghewydtluaakucrndhrpu","type":"file","properties":{"cid":"bafkreig7myxntl2i5idrnal65sqvsohncsm37lt2cx3hlnmib5tpoumdge","content_type":"image/jpeg","filename":"03_merry_wives_of_windsor_1905_page_0150.jpg","height":1778,"key":"pdf-page-1769806505246-1dlmtq4i111","label":"03_merry_wives_of_windsor_1905_page_0150.jpg","page_number":150,"pdf_type":"born_digital","size":407594,"text":"144 Notes\noccur here and there in the plays. They must not be confounded\nwith female lines with two extra syllables (see on i above) or with\nother lines in which two extra unaccented syllables may occur.\n9. Incomplete verses, of one or more syllables, are scattered\nthrough the plays. See iii. 4. 11, 76, 90, 96, etc.\n10. Doggerel measure is used in the very earliest comedies\n(Z. Z. Z. and C. of E. in particular) in the mouths of comic char-\nacters, but nowhere else in those plays, and never anywhere in\nplays written after 1598. There is none in the present play.\n11. Rhyme occurs frequently in the early plays, but diminishes\nwith comparative regularity from that period until the latest.\nThus, in Z. Z. Z. there are about 1 100 rhyming verses (about one-\nthird of the whole number), in M. N. D. about 900, in Rich. II.\nand R. and J. about 500 each, while in Cor. and A. and C. there\nare only about 40 each, in Temp, only two, and in W. T. none\nat all, except in the chorus introducing act iv. Songs, interludes,\nand other matter not in ten-syllable measure are not included in\nthis enumeration. In the present play (which is mostly in prose),\nout of about 275 ten-syllable verses, only sixty-five are in rhyme.\nAlternate rhymes are found only in the plays written before 1599\nor 1600. In M. of V. there are only four lines at the end of iii. 2.\nIn Much Ado and A. Y. L. we also find a few lines, but none at\nall in subsequent plays.\nRhymed couplets^ or \" rhyme-tags,\" are often found at the end of\nscenes ; as in 3 of the 23 scenes of the present play. In Ham.\n14 out of 20 scenes, and in Macb. 21 out of 28, have such \" tags ; \"\nbut in the latest plays they are not so frequent. In Temp., for\ninstance, there is but one, and in W. T. none.\n12. In this edition of Shakespeare, the final -ed of past tenses\nand participles in verse is printed -d when the word is to be pro-\nnounced inthe ordinary way ; as in gaWd (iii. 4. 5) and disposed\n(iii. 4. 73). But when the metre requires that the -ed be made\na separate syllable, the e is retained; as in sealed (iii. 4. 16),\nwhere the word is a dissyllable. The only variation from this rule","text_extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:55:05.246Z","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":"2026-01-30T20:55:07.074Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:55:10.637Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFFH6ETXGRVD10WPNP3007D6"}}