{"id":"01KG8B16D7WNNXCD5CRY7S9AQA","cid":"bafkreibmvrbj5wjuebfl72tvz4h5d7sy5i6qimyrehit2ij4t63yuwpszq","type":"file","properties":{"cid":"bafkreiblaesbujpfzyxjica7qrwh47akmknbudoo77xewvafpuaeo7pcwe","content_type":"image/jpeg","filename":"03_merry_wives_of_windsor_1905_page_0216.jpg","height":1778,"key":"pdf-page-1769806534356-45z1qxvfwr","label":"03_merry_wives_of_windsor_1905_page_0216.jpg","page_number":216,"pdf_type":"born_digital","size":420104,"text":"2IO Appendix\n\" Mrs. Page is a sprightly, sensible, quick-witted woman, who\ndeserves her husband's confidence — and has it — by her faithful,\ntrue-hearted allegiance to him ; who secures and preserves his\nlove by her cheerful spirits, and blithe good-humour ; and who\nseconds her husband in all his hospitable, peace-making schemes ;\nfor, at the end of the play, she says, ' Let us every one go home,\nand laugh this sport o'er by a country fire — Sir John and all.' In\nshort, they are a perfectly worthy couple — worthy of each other, in\ntheir good temper, good faith, and excellent good sense.\n\" Slender comes out in this play with extraordinary force. He\nand Falstaff are the persons who at once present themselves to the\nimagination, when it is referred to. What a speaking portrait we\nhave of Slender in the conversation between Mrs. Quickly and his\nman Simple ! His * little wee face, with a little yellow beard — a\ncane-coloured beard.' He is a 'tall fellow, too, of his hands, as\nany is, between this and his head.' The humorous, quaint, and\nwitty old Fuller says : * Your men that are built six stories high have\nseldom much in their cockloft.' But Master Slender hath earned\na reputation, at all events, with his serving-man ; he hath * fought\nwith a warrener.' And he doth not hide his pretensions to valour,\nespecially from the women, or his station in society. He takes\ncare that Anne Page shall know he * keeps three men and a boy,\ntill his mother be dead ; ' and that he lives like a ' poor gentleman\nborn.' He says this before Anne, not to her.\n\" It is interesting to note the distinction that Shakespeare has\nmade in drawing the two fools. Sir Andrew Aguecheek and Master\nSlender. The difference between them seems to be that Andrew\nis stupid, awkward, and incompetent, and fails in all cases from\nlack of ideas to help him in his need : if he had these, his stock of\nconceit would carry him through and over anything ; but he is a\ncoward as w^ell as a fool. Slender possesses not only the deficien-\ncies of Aguecheek, but he is bashful, even to sheepishness. This\nquality makes him uniformly dependent on one or another for sup-\nport, .. . and yet, withal, in little non-essentials of conduct and","text_extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:55:34.356Z","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":"2026-01-30T20:55:35.079Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:55:36.996Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFFH6ETXGRVD10WPNP3007D6"}}