{"id":"01KG8B0BG0KKM3Z7D39DT5RS4Z","cid":"bafkreigi5xmolxiv3l72ssxpl3e3a4533tgou6leujgv6mumb34xochw4m","type":"file","properties":{"cid":"bafkreibdwt5miwhlohikb22obz7r2xx5ok4dt2yng6bbwdmniuaqpmmsfq","content_type":"image/jpeg","filename":"03_merry_wives_of_windsor_1905_page_0197.jpg","height":1778,"key":"pdf-page-1769806505270-vl2m2chgla","label":"03_merry_wives_of_windsor_1905_page_0197.jpg","page_number":197,"pdf_type":"born_digital","size":329747,"text":"Scene II] Notes 191\nunless you be hanged; for Hog is not Bacon till it be well\nhang'd.' \"\n65. Hick. The dame evidently takes hie to be a verb, like\nhack, but what meaning she ascribes to it is not clear. The only\nhick given in the Neiv Eng. Diet, is = hiccup.\n78. Preeches. That is, breeched, or flogged. Cf. T. of S. iii. I.\n18: \"I am no breeching scholar in the schools.\"\n81. Sprag, Sprack ; that is, quick, ready. S. has the word\nonly here. Coles, in his Latin Diet., has \" Sprack, vegetus, vivi-\ndus, agilis.\" Steevens quotes Tony Aston's supplement to the Life\nof Colley Gibber: \"a little lively sprack man.\" Sprag is Sir\nHugh's mispronunciation.\nScene II. — i. Your sorrow, etc. My sufferings are dissipated\nat the sight of your regret. For sufferance = suffering, cf. Much\nAdo, v. I. 38, etc.\n2. Obsequious. Zealous, devoted. Cf. M. for M. ii. 4. 28 : \" in\nobsequious fondness,\" etc.\n21. Lunes. Lunatic freaks, mad fancies. Cf. W. T. ii. 2. 30:\n\" These dangerous unsafe' lunes i' the king, beshrew them ! \" In\nthe present passage the folios have \" lines,\" as in T. and C. ii. 3.\n139 : \" His pettish lunes.\"\n24. Peer out, peer out! Henley remarks: \" S. here refers to\nthe practice of children, when they call on a snail to push forth his\nhorns : —\n' Peer out, peer out, peer out of your hole,\nOr else I '11 beat you black as coal.' \"\n46. Bestow him. Put him. Cf. Temp. v. i. 299: \"Hence,\nand bestow your luggage where you found it,\" etc.\n51. Pistols. Douce and others note the anachronism here.\nCf. I Hen, IV. ii. 4. 380, v. 3. 53, etc.\n57. Creep into the kiln-hole. Malone suspected from Mrs.\nFord's next speech that these words belong to Mrs. Page ; but, as\nhe adds, \" that may be a second thought, a correction of her former","text_extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:55:05.270Z","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":"2026-01-30T20:55:07.520Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:55:10.242Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFFH6ETXGRVD10WPNP3007D6"}}