The author is making fun of the long s in the quote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s (rules: https://www.babelstone.co

The author is making fun of the long s in the quote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s (rules: https://www.babelstone.co.uk/Blog/2006/06/rules-for-long-s.html https://www.babelstone.co.uk/Blog/2006/06/rules-for-long-s.h... ), by reading it as "f". (As in Flanders and Swann "Greenfleeves")