{"id":"01KG8B16FDT062YKFB7FJY88ZW","cid":"bafkreiheftx4ttks5upcxspxsztykkhjlk25pkc7g5btuy4ztad7v4ciwq","type":"file","properties":{"cid":"bafkreicicy5apxshgyxbsr2vjyc6acpqhxfrebx63zrfqeqbih6jhqsojm","content_type":"image/jpeg","filename":"03_merry_wives_of_windsor_1905_page_0206.jpg","height":1778,"key":"pdf-page-1769806534354-vh2bl9qx5hp","label":"03_merry_wives_of_windsor_1905_page_0206.jpg","page_number":206,"pdf_type":"born_digital","size":413040,"text":"200 Notes [Act V\nbut \" QuV and \" ^m.\" are prefixed to the speeches of the Fairy\nQueen that follow, and \" PisV to those of Hobgoblin. From this\nit has been assumed by some of the editors that Mistress Quickly\nand Pistol are the persons who take these parts. But, as Malone\nremarks, they are ill suited to the parts, and are not mentioned in\nthe arrangements for the masque in iv. 6 above. It is probable\nthat their names were introduced here by some mistake. The\n* Qui'^ may be a slip for Qu. =:: Queen, not Quickly ; and ^^ PuV\nmay be accounted for, either by supposing, as Capell did, that the\nsame actor who represented Pistol took also the role of Hobgoblin,\nor that, as Mr. Fleay believes (^Literary World, June 19, 1880,\np. 216), *^ Pisty is a mistaken reading of P. or Puc. for Puck.\nIt may be noted, incidentally, that \" /\"«<:,\" and \" QuJ^ some-\ntimes occur as prefixes to speeches by Hobgoblin and Titania in\nM. N. D. In the quarto the stage-direction has \" Enter . . . f;tis-\ntresse Quickly, like the Queene of Fayries,\"\" and the prefix to her\nspeeches is \" QuicP or \" QuickC In the revision of the play this\nscene was entirely rewritten and much extended ; and the part of\nthe fairy queen was transferred from Mrs. Quickly to Anne Page,\nwho in the earlier sketch was to be merely \" like a little Fayrie.\"\nWhite takes the ground that the part assigned to Anne in iv. 6\nwas transferred to Mrs. Quickly in carrying out the plot of Fenton\nand Anne to deceive the old folks. He says : \" the determination\nof Page and Mrs. Page that their daughter should play the fairy\nqueen is exactly the reason why she did 7iot play it ; for, as she\nassures her lover in her letter, she meant to deceive both, and\nshe did so. She, Fenton, and Mrs. Quickly arranged that matter\neasily ; and she neither wore green or white, nor played the fairy\nqueen.\" The Cambridge editors also suggest that Mrs. Quickly\n\" may have agreed to take Anne's part to facilitate her escape with\nFenton ; \" but this seems less probable than that a prefix in the\nfolio was misprinted.\n41. Orphan heirs of fixed destiny. \" Beings created orphans by\nfate ; in allusion to supposed spontaneous and ex-natural births,","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":"2026-01-30T20:55:35.149Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:55:37.562Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFFH6ETXGRVD10WPNP3007D6"}}