{"id":"01KG8B169XEAGWBHBFZP32500B","cid":"bafkreieboobauyggwbwmorqm5k2e6duh7he7prxrzltkxgkibieuuvkdre","type":"file","properties":{"cid":"bafkreic7xlnb3edkimby3hlzaybkmxzbtz457oq5urrduxb73yuyxilas4","content_type":"image/jpeg","filename":"03_merry_wives_of_windsor_1905_page_0203.jpg","height":1778,"key":"pdf-page-1769806534353-6we10f34ug2","label":"03_merry_wives_of_windsor_1905_page_0203.jpg","page_number":203,"pdf_type":"born_digital","size":333234,"text":"Scene VI] Notes 197\ncapital, as including \" a local allusion as well as a pun \" {Slough is\nthe name of a town near Windsor) ; but this is doubtful.\n70. Doctor Faustuses. Marlowe's play, Doctor Faustus, on the\nsubject had already made the name familiar.\n79. Cozen-germans. The blundering play on cousin-german is\nobvious. The ist quarto reads: —\n\" For there is three sorts of cosen garmombles,\nIj cosen all the Host of Maidenhead & Readings.\"\nThe \" garmombles \" seems to be an intentional inversion of Mb'm-\npelgard. See on iv. 3. i above. This reference to the visit of the\nGermans has led some critics to date the first draft of the play in\n1592; but, as Dowden remarks, the inference is unwarrantable,\n\" for such an event would be remembered, and the more so because\nof the Duke's subsequent unavailing attempt [in 1595] to obtain\nthe honour of the Garter.\"\n100. Liquor fishermen'' s boots. Cf. i Hen. IV. ii. i. 94. Halli-\nwell-Phillipps quotes Walk Knaves Walk, 1659: \"They are people\nwho will not put on a boot which is not as well liquored as them-\nselves.\"\n102. As a dried pear. \" Pears, when they are dried, become\nflat, and lose the erect and oblong form that distinguishes them\nfrom apples\" (Steevens).\n103. Primero. The fashionable game at cards in the poet's\ntime. Cf. Hen. VIII. v. I. 7, the only other mention of it in S.\n108. His dam. See on i. i. 149 above.\nScene VI. — 14. Larded. Garnished, or mingled. Cf. Ham.\niv. 5. 37 : \" Larded with sweet flowers.\"\n20. Present. Represent, play the part of. See M. N. D. iii. i.\n62, 69, iii. 2. 14, V. I. 132, etc.\n21. Is here. That is, in the letter.\n22. While other jests, etc. \" While they are hotly pursuing other\nmerriment of their own\" (Steevens).","text_extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:55:34.353Z","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":"2026-01-30T20:55:34.973Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:55:37.417Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFFH6ETXGRVD10WPNP3007D6"}}