{"id":"01KG8B16FSQ08C5QCDACRQANZD","cid":"bafkreifrbydcwybimn4qqkjt3ciatm2rr2doc7pdbjuvlmpfitwms6ppmq","type":"file","properties":{"cid":"bafkreificbdbsau7oltg5ijcq6fzvk3mdkpoqdxiohdihyiqesvym3avym","content_type":"image/jpeg","filename":"03_merry_wives_of_windsor_1905_page_0220.jpg","height":1778,"key":"pdf-page-1769806534357-he1e6lmpjn","label":"03_merry_wives_of_windsor_1905_page_0220.jpg","page_number":220,"pdf_type":"born_digital","size":405265,"text":"214 Appendix\nlaughing-stogs to other men's humours ; I desire you in friendship,\nand I will one way or other make you amends. He has made us\nhis vlouting-stog ; and let us knog our prains together, to be re-\nvenge on this same scall, scurvy, cogging companion, the host of\nthe Garter.' And the way in which he revenges himself is — like\na practical teacher of the 'Sermon on the Mount' — to come and\nput the host on his guard against trusting the Germans with his\nhorses. . . .\n\" Dame Quickly makes herself necessary to all, by reason of her\nfussiness, and conspicuous by reason of her folly. . . . She med-\ndles in every one's affair : she acts the go-between for Falstaff with\nthe two merry wives ; she courts Anne Page for her master, under-\ntaking the same office for Slender. She favours the suit of Fenton ;\nand if the Welsh parson had turned an eye of favour upon the yeo-\nman's pretty daughter, she would have played the hymeneal Hebe\nto him too. Her whole character for mere busy-bodying is com-\nprised inthat one speech when Fenton gives her the ring for his\n* sweet Nan.' After he has gone out, she says : 'Now heaven send\nthee good fortune ! A kind heart he hath ; a woman would run\nthrough fire and water for such a kind heart. But yet, I would my\nmaster had Mistress Anne ; or I would Master Slender had her ; or,\nin sooth, I would Master Fenton had her. I will do what I can for\nthem all three : for so I have promised, and I will be as good as my\nword ; but speciously for Master Fenton.' . . . Like a true potterer,\nshe interferes in every conversation, and elbows herself in wherever\nshe sees business going on. Sir Hugh cannot even examine the\nlittle boy Page in his Latin exercise but she must put in her com-\nments. .. .\n\" 7\"he Merry Wives of Windsor is all movement and variety from\nthe first scene to the very last ; and the last ends in a rich piece of\nromance. Dr. Johnson is right in his estimate when he says, ' Its\ngeneral power, that power by which works of genius shall finally\nbe tried, is such that perhaps it never yet had reader or spectator\nwho did not think it too soon at an end.' \"","text_extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:55:34.357Z","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":"2026-01-30T20:55:35.161Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:55:37.354Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFFH6ETXGRVD10WPNP3007D6"}}