{"id":"01KG8B0B271PFYRYB9QEFYAQXB","cid":"bafkreid44hd5lwv5xfbzk4z2gl5h7qvr3xwgyrb6yue33h7kvo5z4pzuyq","type":"file","properties":{"cid":"bafkreibc6mcnopvfxug76dgcbcmhjhykcfqxpy5wfbzsxy7hfnddyx43bq","content_type":"image/jpeg","filename":"03_merry_wives_of_windsor_1905_page_0154.jpg","height":1778,"key":"pdf-page-1769806505250-nuozjdflz7","label":"03_merry_wives_of_windsor_1905_page_0154.jpg","page_number":154,"pdf_type":"born_digital","size":366327,"text":"148 Notes [Act I\n2. A Star-chamber matter. Steevens quotes Jonson, Magnetic\nLady^ iii. 4 : —\n\" There is a court above, of the Star-chamber,\nTo punish routs and riots.\"\nSee also Sir John Harrington's Epigrams^ 161 8: —\n\" No marvel men of such a sumptuous dyet\nWere brought into the Star-Chamber for a ryot.\"\n6. Coram. This word and armigero (the ablative case of armi-\nger, bearer of arms, or esquire) occur in the form for attestations\nwhich Slender had seen ; wherein his cousin's name would thus\nappear : \" Coram me Roberto Shallow armigero,\" etc. Slender also\nconfuses the word with Quorum (Clarke).\n7. Custalorum. Probably a corruption of custos rotulorum^\nkeeper of the rolls. Ratolorum seems also to have been suggested\nby roiulorum. Farmer conjectured that Slender says \"and cus-\ntos^' and that Shallow adds \" Ay, and rotulorum too ; \" but the\nold reading, with its muddling of the Latin terms, is in keeping\nwith the characters.\n12. That I do ^ etc. Farmer conjectured \"we\" for // but Shal-\nlow speaks for \" his successors gone before him \" as well as himself.\n16. Luces. Pikes. The fish figured in the coat-of-arms of the\nLucy family, and there is quite certainly a hit here at Sir Thomas\nLucy of Charlecote, associated with the tradition of the poet's\nyouthful poaching exploits. Evans takes the word to refer to an-\nother animal, which \" signifies love,\" Boswell tells us, \" because it\ndoes not desert man in distress, but rather sticks more close to\nhim in his adversity.\"\n22. The luce is the fresh fish, etc. An inexplicable passage.\nFarmer transfers \" the salt fish,\" etc., to Evans, and says : \" Shal-\nlow had said just before that the coat is an old one ; and now that\nit is the luce, the fresh fish. No, replies the parson, it cannot be\nold and fresh too — the salt fish is an old coat.\"\n24. Quarter. A term in heraldry for combining the arms of","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":"2026-01-30T20:55:07.079Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:55:09.576Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFFH6ETXGRVD10WPNP3007D6"}}