{"id":"01KG8B0BM11JVZ82HHMCA7TRFA","cid":"bafkreigiq3dxjoxe7ofedpmjrgp4gzv25g4wclnhl6r37xq6rsh6zzalzy","type":"file","properties":{"cid":"bafkreicimcyplcsjdwbawei52go2xn3tzsgjj74wobq3ubkqfy5x7elley","content_type":"image/jpeg","filename":"03_merry_wives_of_windsor_1905_page_0153.jpg","height":1778,"key":"pdf-page-1769806505249-pnt7cgx8c2n","label":"03_merry_wives_of_windsor_1905_page_0153.jpg","page_number":153,"pdf_type":"born_digital","size":371040,"text":"Scene I] Notes 147\nShakespeare the Boy (1896 ; treating of the home and school hfe,\nthe games and sports, the manners, customs, and folk-lore of the\npoet's time) ; Guerber's Myths of Greece and Rome (for young stu-\ndents who may need information on mythological allusions not\nexplained in the notes).\nH. Snowden Ward's Shakespeare's Town and Times (2d ed.\n1902) and John Leyland's Shakespeare Country (2d ed. 1903) are\ncopiously illustrated books (yet inexpensive) which may be par-\nticularly commended for school libraries.\nAbbreviations in the Notes. — The abbreviations of the names\nof Shakespeare's plays will be readily understood ; as T. N. for\nTwelfth Nighty Cor. for Coriolanus, 3 Hen. VI. for The Third\nPart of King Henry the Sixth, etc. P. P. refers to The Passionate\nPilgrim ; V. and A. to Venus and Adonis ; L. C. to Lover'' s Com-\nplaint; and Sonn. to the Sonnets.\nOther abbreviations that hardly need explanation are Cf. {confer,\ncompare), Fol. (following). Id. {idem, the same), and Prol. (pro-\nlogue). The numbers of the Unes in the references (except for the\npresent play) are those of the \" Globe \" edition (the cheapest and\nbest edition of Shakespeare in one compact volume), which is now\ngenerally accepted as the standard for line-numbers in works of ref-\nerence (Schmidt's Lexicon, Abbott's Grammar, Dowden's Primer,\nthe publications of the New Shakspere Society, etc.).\nACT I\nScene I. — i. Sir Hugh. The title Sir was formerly applied to\npriests and curates in general. \" Dominus, the academical title of *\na bachelor of arts, was usually rendered by Sir in English at the\nuniversities ; therefore, as most clerical persons had taken that first ;\ndegree, it became usual to style them Sir'''' (Nares). Cf. \"Sir\nTopas \" in T. N. iv. 2. 2, etc. Halliwell-Phillipps quotes the Reg-\nister ofBurials at Cheltenham : \" 1574, August xxxi, Sir John Evans,\ncurate of Cheltenham, buried.\"","text_extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:55:05.249Z","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":"2026-01-30T20:55:07.649Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:55:10.685Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFFH6ETXGRVD10WPNP3007D6"}}