{"id":"01KG8B0BDD8ZNMR3ZNCSHDGESE","cid":"bafkreibtmtbltit25izwxwdpt3cmxd6n2hvjosny5msqgmwdqsozpiiwla","type":"file","properties":{"cid":"bafkreihr4in3pian44xss3qbogrhtuhkkos4vdnmq7a5dwse3mrwkp3yca","content_type":"image/jpeg","filename":"03_merry_wives_of_windsor_1905_page_0190.jpg","height":1778,"key":"pdf-page-1769806505266-ezteo44e4la","label":"03_merry_wives_of_windsor_1905_page_0190.jpg","page_number":190,"pdf_type":"born_digital","size":365902,"text":"1 84 Notes [Act in\n65. Farthingale. Hooped petticoat. Cf. T. G. of V. ii. 7. 51 :\n\" What compass will you wear your farthingale ? \" In T. of S.\niv. 3. 56, the spelling is fardingale.\n66. If Fortune thy foe were not. Evidently an allusion to a\npopular old song beginning \" Fortune, my foe, why dost thou\nfrown on me ? \" Nature thy friend — Nature being thy friend.\n73. A many. Now obsolete, though we say a few and many a.\nCf. M. of V. iii. 5. 73, Rich. III. iii. 7. 184, etc. Tennyson uses\nthe expression in The Miller'' s Daughter : \"They have not shed a\nmany tears.\"\n75. Buckler sbury. A street in London (on the right of Cheap-\nside, as one goes towards the Bank) which in the poet's time was\nchiefly inhabited by druggists, who sold all kinds of simples, or\nherbs, green as well as dry.\n80. The Counter-gate. The Counter (cf. C. of E. iv. 2. 39,\nwhere there may be a play on the word) was the name of two\nprisons in London.\n92. The arras. The tapestry hangings of the room. Steevens\nremarks : \" The spaces left between the walls and the wooden\nframes on which arras was hung, were not more commodious to\nour ancestors than to the authors of their ancient dramatic pieces.\nBorachio in Much Ado and Polonius in Hamlet also avail them-\nselves ofthis convenient recess.\"\nloi. To your husband. Cf. T. G. of V. iii. i. 84 : \"I have\nthee to my tutor,\" etc.\n123. I had rather than a thousand pound. Cf. i. I. 178 above:\n\" I had rather than forty shillings,\" etc. Had rather is good old\nEnglish of which would rather is merely a \" modern improvement.\"\n127. Conveyance. In the general sense of \"means of getting\nhim out of the way\" (as in Rich. III. iv. 4. 283), not referring to\nthe basket, which she sees a moment later.\n132. Whiting-time. Bleaching- time. This, as Holt White\nnotes, was spring, the season when \" maidens bleach their summer\nsmocks \" (Z. L. L. v. 2. 916).","text_extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:55:05.266Z","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":"2026-01-30T20:55:07.437Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:55:10.152Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFFH6ETXGRVD10WPNP3007D6"}}