{"id":"01KG8B16C0CQ4J1J47XE08C20J","cid":"bafkreicewwulvtwpjkfcxdmtzofj225v4irlxe4mejaniuzymr3d7htmde","type":"file","properties":{"cid":"bafkreidd4m4jfwobjgtj3elpci3h6q5paglg6a6rujtmmvqguew2typ6le","content_type":"image/jpeg","filename":"03_merry_wives_of_windsor_1905_page_0212.jpg","height":1778,"key":"pdf-page-1769806534355-cux30krb6vu","label":"03_merry_wives_of_windsor_1905_page_0212.jpg","page_number":212,"pdf_type":"born_digital","size":338268,"text":"2o6 Notes [Act V\nrectitude \" (Henley and White) ; \" ignorance itself can sound the\ndepths of my shallowness in this\" (Clarke and Schmidt). Staun-\nton quotes Shirley, Love in a Maze, iv. 2 : \"What, art melancholy?\nWhat hath hung plummets on thy nimble soul?\" The only other\ninstances of the wox^ plununet in S. are Temp, iii. 3. loi and v. i.\n56, which favour Clarke's explanation, though Tyrwhitt's is on the\nwhole preferable.\n174. Affiiction. After this speech, Theobald inserts the follow-\ning from the quarto : —\n\" Mrs. Ford, Nay, husband let that go to make amends ;\nForgive that sum, and so we '11 all be friends.\nFord. Well, here 's my hand ; all 's forgiven at last.\"\n176. A posset. See on i. 4. 7 and iii. 5. 29 above. Clarke re-\nmarks :\" There is something especially cordial in the introduction\nof this proposal from the good-natured yeoman. Master Page ; it\nserves to keep the jest upon Falstaff within the range of comedy-\nbanter, and to show that he is included in the general reconcilia-\ntion which closes the play.\"\n179-181. Daniel plausibly suggests that this may be corrupt\nverse, and should read : —\n\" Doctors doubt that ; if Anne Page be my daughter,\nShe is by this time Doctor Caius' wife.\"\n192. Swinged. Whipped. Cf. ^./<?>^«, ii. i. 288, etc.\n194. Postmaster's boy. Steevens inserts here from the quarto : —\n\" Evans. Jeshu ! Master Slender, cannot you see but marry boys ?\nPage, O, I am vex'd at heart ! What shall I do ? \"\n227. Amaze. Bewilder, confuse. Cf. K. John, iv. 3. 140 : \" I\nam amaz'd, methinks, and lose my way,\" etc.\n234. Unduteous title. Title of unduteousness. For title \" wile,\"\n\"will,\" etc., have been substituted; but title simply repeats the\nname of the preceding line.\n235. Evitate. Avoid ; used by S. only here.","text_extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:55:34.355Z","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":"2026-01-30T20:55:35.040Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:55:37.287Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFFH6ETXGRVD10WPNP3007D6"}}