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- 200 Notes [Act V
but " QuV and " ^m." are prefixed to the speeches of the Fairy
Queen that follow, and " PisV to those of Hobgoblin. From this
it has been assumed by some of the editors that Mistress Quickly
and Pistol are the persons who take these parts. But, as Malone
remarks, they are ill suited to the parts, and are not mentioned in
the arrangements for the masque in iv. 6 above. It is probable
that their names were introduced here by some mistake. The
* Qui'^ may be a slip for Qu. =:: Queen, not Quickly ; and ^^ PuV
may be accounted for, either by supposing, as Capell did, that the
same actor who represented Pistol took also the role of Hobgoblin,
or that, as Mr. Fleay believes (^Literary World, June 19, 1880,
p. 216), *^ Pisty is a mistaken reading of P. or Puc. for Puck.
It may be noted, incidentally, that " /"«<:," and " QuJ^ some-
times occur as prefixes to speeches by Hobgoblin and Titania in
M. N. D. In the quarto the stage-direction has " Enter . . . f;tis-
tresse Quickly, like the Queene of Fayries,"" and the prefix to her
speeches is " QuicP or " QuickC In the revision of the play this
scene was entirely rewritten and much extended ; and the part of
the fairy queen was transferred from Mrs. Quickly to Anne Page,
who in the earlier sketch was to be merely " like a little Fayrie."
White takes the ground that the part assigned to Anne in iv. 6
was transferred to Mrs. Quickly in carrying out the plot of Fenton
and Anne to deceive the old folks. He says : " the determination
of Page and Mrs. Page that their daughter should play the fairy
queen is exactly the reason why she did 7iot play it ; for, as she
assures her lover in her letter, she meant to deceive both, and
she did so. She, Fenton, and Mrs. Quickly arranged that matter
easily ; and she neither wore green or white, nor played the fairy
queen." The Cambridge editors also suggest that Mrs. Quickly
" may have agreed to take Anne's part to facilitate her escape with
Fenton ; " but this seems less probable than that a prefix in the
folio was misprinted.
41. Orphan heirs of fixed destiny. " Beings created orphans by
fate ; in allusion to supposed spontaneous and ex-natural births,
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