[32] Ed. Brinsley Nicholson, p. 32. Book III, chap. ii. (See p. 135.)
[33] _Romeo and Juliet_, I. iv, 53, sqq.
[34] In II. i. 40, "sweet puck" is no more a proper name than "Hobgoblin";
so also in l. 148 of the same scene. In neither case should the name be
printed with a capital P.
[35] II. i. 34.
[36] V. i. 418, 421.
[37] Wright, _English Dialect Dictionary_, s.v. Puck, gives Scotland,
Ireland, Derby, Worcester, Shropshire, Gloucester, Sussex and Hampshire as
localities where the name is recorded.
[38] Text H in Child's _Ballads_, I. 352.
[39] Campbell's _Popular Tales of the West Highlands_ (1890), vol. ii,
tales xxv, xxvi, etc.
[40] _Ballads_, I. 314, and note.
[41] _M.N.D._, II. i. 40. (See note on p. 37.)
[42] _The Wyf of Bathe's Tale_, at the beginning; and elsewhere.
[43] _The Faerie Queene,_ chiefly in Book II, where in Canto X, stanzas
70-76, he gives a fictitious list of the generations of fairies; the first
"Elfe" was the image made by Prometheus, to animate which he stole fire
from heaven; the list ends with Oberon, and Tanaquil the Faerie Queen.
[44] Reprinted in this book, pp. 81-121.
[45] Mr. Chambers, in his edition of the play, Appendix A, Sec. l8, gives (i)
_Tarlton's News out of Purgatory_ (1590) (see p. 63), (ii) Churchyard's
_Handfull of Gladsome Verses_ (1592) (see p.
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