[1] _farlies_, marvels.
[2] _feared_, frightened.
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_The Mad Merry Pranks of Robin Good-fellow._
P. 144. This broadside is found in various editions in the larger
collections (Roxburghe Coll., I. 230; Pepys, I. 80; also in the Bagford);
the text here given is Percy's collation (as printed in his _Reliques_) of
one or two of the above. The tune of _Dulcina_ was famous; it may be seen
in Chappell's _Popular Music_, 142.
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_The Fairies' Farewell._
[1] P. 153, l. 11. [_need_]. _Poetica Stromata_ reads _want_.
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_The Fairy Queen._
P. 155. The poem was given by Percy in his _Reliques_ from _The Mysteries
of Love and Eloquence_, a curious book of which the preface is signed E.P.;
the British Museum Catalogue attributes these initials to Edward Phillips,
the nephew of John Milton. But Rimbault pointed out that this song occurs
in a tract of 1635, _A Description of the King and Queen of the Fairies_,
attributed to Robert Herrick; a single copy of this pamphlet is known, and
is in the Bodleian Library.
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_Nymphidia._
P. 158. Michael Drayton's fairy-poem was first published in 1627, and
perhaps owes a little of its charm to Shakespeare's play, though not so
much as Drayton's sonnets to those of the elder poet.
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