{"id":"01KG8B164X088VTCFDZBNBWB5G","cid":"bafkreib77cydvbukcdcgupztui2lpuw2ykulnjdjvomsdfxsxmskny74fe","type":"file","properties":{"cid":"bafkreid4yy3rpjgx3uizeqbvdi36ized3t4w5kagfo62wmvxyn6d35jn4u","content_type":"image/jpeg","filename":"03_merry_wives_of_windsor_1905_page_0208.jpg","height":1778,"key":"pdf-page-1769806534354-klh5gw4nzx","label":"03_merry_wives_of_windsor_1905_page_0208.jpg","page_number":208,"pdf_type":"born_digital","size":281498,"text":"202 Notes [Act V\nHerrick, Hesperides : —\n\"If ye will with Mab finde grace,\nSet each platter in its place ;\nRake the fire up and fet\nWater in ere sun be set,\nWash your pales and cleanse your dairies ;\nSluts are loathsome to the fairies :\nSweep your house ; who doth not so,\nMab will pinch her by the toe ; \"\nBishop Corbet's Farewell to the Fairies : —\n\" Farewell, rewards and fairies,\nGood housewives now may say ;\nFor now fowle sluts in dairies\nDo fare as well as they :\nAnd though they sweepe their hearths no lesse\nThan maides were wont to doe,\nYet who of late for cleanlinesse\nFindes sixpence in her shooe ? \"\nand Drayton, Nymphidia : —\n\" These make our girls their sluttery rue,\nBy pinching them both black and blue.\nAnd put a penny in their shoe,\nThe house for cleanly sweeping.\"\nNash, in his Terrors of the Night, 1594, remarks that \"the Robin\nGoodfellowes, elfes, fairies, hobgoblins of our latter age, . . . pincht\nmaids in their sleep that swept not their houses cleane,\" etc. So\nin Robin Goodfellow ; his mad prankes, etc., 1628, we read; \"many\nmad prankes would they play, as pinching of sluts black and blue,\nand misplacing things in ill-ordered houses ; but lovingly would\nthey use wenches that cleanly were, giving them silver and other\npretty toyes, which they would leave for them, sometimes in their\nshooes, other times in their pockets, sometimes in bright basons\nand other cleane vessels.\"","text_extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:55:34.354Z","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":"2026-01-30T20:55:34.813Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:55:37.138Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFFH6ETXGRVD10WPNP3007D6"}}